公开(公告)号：US11528582B2

公开(公告)日：2022-12-13

申请号：US16425782

申请日：2019-05-29

Applicant: Apprentice FS, Inc.

Inventor： Frank Maggiore ,  Angelo Stracquatanio ,  Nabil Hajj Chehade

IPC: G05B19/418 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/021 ,  G06T19/00 ,  H04W4/02

Abstract: One variation of a method for assisting execution of manual protocols at production equipment includes: identifying a site occupied by a mobile device based on a geospatial location of a device; identifying a space within the building occupied by the device based on identifiers of a set of wireless access points wirelessly accessible to the device and known locations of wireless access points within the building; loading a protocol associated with an equipment unit in the space; calculating a position of the device within the space based on positions optical features, detected in a field of view of an optical sensor at the device, relative to reference features represented in a space model of the space; and, when the position of the device falls within a threshold distance of a reference location proximal the equipment unit defined in a step of the procedure, rendering guidance for the step.

公开(公告)号：US20190316912A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-17

申请号：US16386178

申请日：2019-04-16

Applicant: Apprentice FS, Inc.

Inventor： Frank Maggiore ,  Angelo Stracquatanio ,  Sam Brewton Lee Crumpton ,  Russell Hirschorn ,  Ali Jaafar ,  Nabil Hajj Chehade

IPC: G01C21/20 ,  G06F3/16 ,  H04W4/029

Abstract: One variation of a method for controlling dissemination of instructional content to operators performing procedures at equipment within a facility includes: at a computing device, accessing a digital procedure containing a first instructional block comprising a first instruction in a set of formats including a text format corresponding to a first degree of guidance, an audio format corresponding to a second degree of guidance different from the first degree, and a visual format corresponding to a third degree of guidance greater than the first and second degrees; accessing a minimum instruction guidance specification for a current instance of the digital procedure; and, in response to initiation of the first instructional block in the digital procedure, presenting the first instruction in a particular format, in the set of formats, corresponding to a particular degree of guidance approximating the minimum instruction guidance specification.

公开(公告)号：US20240089413A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-14

申请号：US18512414

申请日：2023-11-17

Applicant: Apprentice FS, Inc.

Inventor： Frank Maggiore ,  Angelo Stracquatanio ,  Gary Pignata ,  Dani Dufee ,  Adam Cormack ,  John Zimmerman

IPC: H04N7/18 ,  G06F21/31 ,  G06F21/84 ,  G06T7/73 ,  G06V20/40 ,  G08B5/22 ,  H04N5/04 ,  H04N5/262 ,  H04W76/30

CPC classification number: H04N7/181 ,  G06F21/31 ,  G06F21/84 ,  G06T7/73 ,  G06V20/40 ,  G08B5/22 ,  H04N5/04 ,  H04N5/2624 ,  H04W76/30 ,  G06T2207/10016 ,  G06T2207/10028 ,  G06T2207/20132

Abstract: A method includes: via a user interface of a hub device, receiving a first set of user credentials associated with a first operator, the hub device connected to a set of mobile devices; accessing a first operator schedule defining a first manufacturing operation and a first observer of the first manufacturing operation, the first observer characterized by a first set of observer credentials; detecting disconnection of a first mobile device in the set of mobile devices from the hub device, the first mobile device associated with a first device ID; in response to detecting disconnection of the first mobile device from the hub device, associating the first device ID with the first operator; and serving a first video feed from the first mobile device to the first observer based on the first device ID and the first set of observer credentials.

公开(公告)号：US20230394436A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-07

申请号：US18204837

申请日：2023-06-01

Applicant: Apprentice FS, Inc.

Inventor： Angelo Stracquatanio ,  Nabil Chehade ,  Frank Maggiore ,  Ali Jaafar ,  Milan Bradonjic ,  Kenny Chapman ,  Tanya Maroz ,  Sam Brewton ,  Kingsley Adarkwah

IPC: G06Q10/10 ,  G06Q10/0631 ,  G06T11/00 ,  G06F3/01 ,  G06V20/20

CPC classification number: G06Q10/10 ,  G06Q10/06316 ,  G06T2200/24 ,  G06F3/012 ,  G06V20/20 ,  G06T11/00

Abstract: A method for augmenting procedures at production equipment includes: linking a first description of a first step in a procedure and a capture type to a first capture field; generating a digital draft procedure comprising descriptions of steps extracted from the procedure and the first capture field specifying data capture of the first capture type from an equipment unit; generating augmented guidance for the first step in the procedure based on visual content recorded by a mobile device—assigned to an exemplary operator—during completion of the first step in the digital draft procedure; linking the augmented guidance to a location proximal the equipment unit based on locations of the first mobile device during completion of the first step in the digital draft procedure; and generating an augmented digital procedure based on steps in the procedure, the augmented guidance, and definitions for data capture according to the first capture field.

公开(公告)号：US11810257B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-07

申请号：US17478817

申请日：2021-09-17

Applicant: Apprentice FS, Inc.

Inventor： Frank Maggiore ,  Angelo Stracquatanio ,  Milan Bradonjic ,  Nabil Chehade

IPC: G06T19/00 ,  H04W4/33 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/021

CPC classification number: G06T19/006 ,  H04W4/021 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/33

Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically capturing data from non-networked production equipment includes: detecting a location of a mobile device within a facility, the mobile device manipulated by an operator while performing a step of an augmented digital procedure at a machine in the facility; estimating a position of a display on the machine relative to a field of view of an optical sensor in the mobile device based on the location of the mobile device and a stored location of the machine within the facility; in response to the position of the display falling within the field of view of the optical sensor, selecting an image captured by the optical sensor; extracting a value, presented on the display, from a region of the image depicting the display; and storing the value in a procedure file for the augmented digital procedure completed at the machine.

公开(公告)号：US20230124561A1

公开(公告)日：2023-04-20

申请号：US17968677

申请日：2022-10-18

Applicant: Apprentice FS, Inc.

Inventor： Frank Maggiore

IPC: H04N21/84 ,  G06V20/40 ,  G06V10/75 ,  G06V10/22 ,  G06V20/52 ,  H04N21/234

Abstract: One variation of the method for distributing censored videos of manufacturing procedures performed within a facility includes: accessing a video feed captured by a local device interfacing with a local operator during performance of a procedure within the facility; interpreting a set of objects depicted in the video feed based on features extracted from the video feed; accessing a minimum censorship specification for the procedure, the minimum censorship specification defining a set of object types corresponding to a first degree of censorship; identifying a subset of objects, in the set of objects, depicted in the video feed related to the procedure based on the set of object types defined in the minimum censorship specification; fogging the subset of objects in the video feed to generate a censored video feed; and serving the censored video feed to a remote viewer portal accessed by a remote viewer.

公开(公告)号：US20220229413A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-21

申请号：US17578953

申请日：2022-01-19

Applicant: Apprentice FS, Inc.

Inventor： Frank Maggiore

IPC: G05B19/409 ,  G06F21/86

Abstract: One variation of a system includes: a chassis located over a physical user interface of a production equipment unit that includes a set of physical input fields; a set of actuators coupled to the chassis; a selector manipulated by the set of actuators and interfacing with the set of physical input fields; a communication module configured to receive a command—corresponding to a virtual input entered by a remote operator at a virtual user interface representing the physical user interface and depicted within an operator portal remote from the production equipment unit—during a procedure at the production equipment unit; and a controller configured to: drive the set of actuators according to the command to manipulate the selector across a physical input field on the physical user interface and thus physically reproduce the virtual input at the physical user interface of the production equipment unit.

公开(公告)号：US11326886B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-10

申请号：US16386178

申请日：2019-04-16

Applicant: Apprentice FS, Inc.

Inventor： Frank Maggiore ,  Angelo Stracquatanio ,  Sam Brewton Lee Crumpton ,  Russell Hirschorn ,  Ali Jaafar ,  Nabil Hajj Chehade

IPC: G01C21/20 ,  H04W4/029 ,  G06F3/16

Abstract: One variation of a method for controlling dissemination of instructional content to operators performing procedures at equipment within a facility includes: at a computing device, accessing a digital procedure containing a first instructional block comprising a first instruction in a set of formats including a text format corresponding to a first degree of guidance, an audio format corresponding to a second degree of guidance different from the first degree, and a visual format corresponding to a third degree of guidance greater than the first and second degrees; accessing a minimum instruction guidance specification for a current instance of the digital procedure; and, in response to initiation of the first instructional block in the digital procedure, presenting the first instruction in a particular format, in the set of formats, corresponding to a particular degree of guidance approximating the minimum instruction guidance specification.

公开(公告)号：US20200167712A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-28

申请号：US16678992

申请日：2019-11-08

Applicant: Apprentice FS, Inc.

Inventor： Angelo Stracquatanio ,  Nabil Chehade ,  Frank Maggiore ,  Ali Jaafar ,  Milan Bradonjic ,  Kenny Chapman ,  Tanya Maroz ,  Sam Brewton ,  Kingsley Adarkwah

IPC: G06Q10/06 ,  G06Q10/10 ,  G06T11/00 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: A method for augmenting procedures at production equipment includes: linking a first description of a first step in a procedure and a capture type to a first capture field; generating a digital draft procedure comprising descriptions of steps extracted from the procedure and the first capture field specifying data capture of the first capture type from an equipment unit; generating augmented guidance for the first step in the procedure based on visual content recorded by a mobile device—assigned to an exemplary operator—during completion of the first step in the digital draft procedure; linking the augmented guidance to a location proximal the equipment unit based on locations of the first mobile device during completion of the first step in the digital draft procedure; and generating an augmented digital procedure based on steps in the procedure, the augmented guidance, and definitions for data capture according to the first capture field.

公开(公告)号：US12288396B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-29

申请号：US18084335

申请日：2022-12-19

Applicant: Apprentice FS, Inc.

Inventor： Frank Maggiore

IPC: G06V20/40 ,  G06T7/73 ,  G06V10/25 ,  G06V30/224

Abstract: One variation of a method for augmenting a digital procedure for production of pharmacological materials with automatic verification of objects includes: initializing a digital procedure containing a sequence of instructional blocks; and populating a instructional block with a instruction in a set of formats and a set of target objects. The method further includes, in response to an operator initiating an instance of the instructional block: accessing video feeds of the operator performing the instructional block; identifying a target object in a target frame from the video feeds; extracting visual features from the target frame; calculating an identification score for the target object based on the visual features; in response to the identification score falling below a confidence threshold, applying a fiducial to the target object; and linking the target object to the fiducial in the instructional block.