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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2020
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Xiao Bian, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Colin James Parris, Brookfield, CT (US);
Feng Xue, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Shaopeng Liu, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Arpit Jain, Dublin, CA (US);
Shourya Sarcar, Niskayuna, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of inspecting a component using an image retrieval module includes storing an inspection image file in a memory and identifying a region of interest in the inspection image file. The method further includes accessing a database storing image files and determining feature vectors associated with the image files. The method also includes determining a hash code for each image file based on the feature vectors and classifying a subset of image files as relevant based on the hash codes. The method further includes sorting the subset of image files based on the feature vectors and generating search results based on the sorted subset of image files. The image retrieval module includes a convolutional neural network configured to learn from the determination of the feature vectors and increase the accuracy of the image retrieval module in classifying the image files.