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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:
Jun. 08, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2019
Applicant:

Redzone Robotics, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Inventors:

Todd Kueny, Tarentum, PA (US);

Justin Starr, Baden, PA (US);

Foster J Salotti, Verona, PA (US);

Assignee:

RedZone Robotics, Inc., Warrendale, PA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/88 (2006.01); G01N 21/954 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/954 (2013.01); G01N 21/8851 (2013.01); G01N 2021/8887 (2013.01); G01N 2021/9544 (2013.01); G01N 2021/9548 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01);
Abstract

An embodiment provides a method, including: obtaining, from a multi-sensor pipe inspection robot that traverses through the interior of a pipe, sensor data, such as structured laser light sensor data and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensor data, for the interior of the pipe; identifying a pipe feature using one or more of the sensor data types; selecting an image processing technique based on the pipe feature identified using a stored association between the pipe feature and an image processing technique; and forming an image of the interior of the pipe by implementing the selected image processing technique. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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