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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 27, 2019
Applicant:

Ensco, Inc., Springfield, VA (US);

Inventors:

Matthew Dick, Charlottesville, VA (US);

Zhipeng Liu, Great Falls, VA (US);

Samson Yilma, Arlington, VA (US);

Assignee:

ENSCO, INC., Springfield, VA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); B61K 9/08 (2006.01); G01S 19/01 (2010.01); G01N 21/88 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G01N 25/72 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B61K 9/08 (2013.01); G01N 21/8851 (2013.01); G01N 25/72 (2013.01); G01S 19/01 (2013.01); G06T 7/0006 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10048 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30108 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system for analyzing thermal properties of a railroad includes a thermal imaging device configured to generate thermal image data reproducible as a thermal image of a portion of the railroad, the thermal image data being associated with a location of the portion of the railroad, an electronic display device, a memory device configured to receive and store therein the generated thermal image data; and one or more processors configured to: determine a temperature metric of the portion of the railroad based at least in part on the thermal image data; and cause the electronic display device to display (i) a first graph indicative of the temperature metric of the portion of the railroad and (ii) a second graph indicative of a railroad track geometry metric associated with the location of the portion of the railroad.


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