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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. 10, 2026

Filed:

Feb. 27, 2020
Applicant:

Lm Wind Power A/s, Kolding, DK;

Inventors:

Arpit Jain, Dublin, CA (US);

Feng Xue, Clifton Park, NY (US);

Michael John Macdonald, Albany, NY (US);

Xiao Bian, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Venkata Vijayaraghava Nalladega, Watervliet, NY (US);

Gary Anthony Miller, Randers, DK;

Assignee:

LM Wind Power A/S, Kolding, DK;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 17/00 (2016.01); G01N 21/95 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06V 10/26 (2022.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01); G06V 20/70 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F03D 17/00 (2016.05); G01N 21/95 (2013.01); G06T 7/0004 (2013.01); G06V 10/267 (2022.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01); G06V 20/70 (2022.01); F05B 2270/709 (2013.01); F05B 2270/8041 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10048 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20076 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for monitoring a rotor assembly of a wind turbine includes receiving, via an imaging analytics module of a controller, thermal imaging data of the rotor assembly that includes a plurality of image frames. The method includes automatically identifying, via a first machine learning model of the imaging analytics module, a plurality of sections of a rotor blade of the rotor assembly within the plurality of image frames until all sections of the rotor blade are identified. Further, the method includes selecting, via a function of the imaging analytics module, a subset of image frames from the plurality of image frames, the subset of image frames comprising a minimum number of the plurality of image frames required to represent all sections of the rotor blade. Moreover, the method includes generating, via a visualization module of the controller, an image of the rotor assembly using the subset of image frames.


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