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Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2023
Applicant:

Siemens Mobility, Inc., New York, NY (US);

Inventor:

Benjamin Planche, New Brunswick, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Siemens Mobility, Inc., New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 20/58 (2022.01); B61L 5/18 (2006.01); G06V 10/44 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 20/584 (2022.01); B61L 5/18 (2013.01); G06V 10/454 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01);
Abstract

A system for visual inspection of signal lights at a railroad crossing includes a data source comprising a stream of images, the stream of images including images of signal lights at a railroad crossing, an inspection module configured via computer executable instructions to receive the stream of images, detect signal lights and light instances in the stream of images, encode global information relevant to ambient luminosity and return a first feature vector, encode patch information of luminosity of detected signal lights and return a second feature vector, concatenate the first feature vector with the second feature vector and return a concatenated feature vector, and decode the concatenated feature vector and provide status of the signal lights.


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