Orbcomm Inc.

Erik Sherwood

Ronald Straz

A system and method for frost detection and frost mitigation for an imaging device within a container interior. According to a first preferred embodiment, the system preferably may include an imaging device having one or more LED light sources for illuminating the container interior. According to a preferred embodiment, the system may preferably first receive digital images from the imaging device along with one or more detected sensor inputs. Thereafter, the system may preferably calculate the potential for frost on or around the imaging device based on one or more sensor inputs which may include the imaging device temperature in combination with a door open signal, a detected light level or the like. The system may then preferably analyze the digital images during times of likely frost events using a frost detection algorithm which detects the presence of frost based on image characteristics derived from previously captured images with known frost levels.

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