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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:
Feb. 16, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 28, 2018
Applicant:

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO (US);

Inventors:

Mats D. Bennett, Spring Valley, OH (US);

Jason Monnin, Fairborn, OH (US);

Jarett Levi Bartholomew, Longmont, CO (US);

Cynthia Wallace, Louisville, CO (US);

Lyle Ruppert, Longmont, CO (US);

Reuben Rohrschneider, Boulder, CO (US);

Bevan D. Staple, Longmont, CO (US);

William Tandy, Superior, CO (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/39 (2006.01); G01M 3/38 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2020.01); G01M 3/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/39 (2013.01); G01M 3/22 (2013.01); G01M 3/38 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01); G01N 2021/394 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for remotely detecting gases and emissions of gases are provided. Data is collected from a scene using a sensor system. The data is initially optionally processed as 1D data to remove noise, and is then assigned a confidence value by processing the 1D data using a neural network. The confidence value is related to a likelihood that an emission has been detected at a particular location. The processed 1D data, including the confidence value, is gridded into 2D space. The 2D data is then processed using a neural network to assign a 2D confidence value. The 2D data can be fused with RGB data to produce a map of emission source locations. The data identifying emissions can also be processed using a neural network to determine and output emission rate data.


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