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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2012
Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US);
Lee F. Holeva, Ft. Wayne, IN (US);
Edwin R. Elston, El Paso, TX (US);
Michael J. Seelinger, South Bend, IN (US);
John-David S. Yoder, Bluffton, OH (US);
Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for evaluating a possible pallet object in a gray scale image including one or more pallets. The method may comprise: generating, by a computer, a first confidence score Scorefor a lower left corner associated with the possible pallet object; generating, by the computer, a second confidence score Scorefor a lower right corner associated with the possible pallet object; generating, by the computer, a third confidence score Scorefor a bottom pallet board line associated with the possible pallet object; generating, by the computer, a fourth confidence score Scorefor a center stringer associated with the possible pallet object; and calculating, by the computer, a composite score Scorebased on the first, second, third and fourth confidence scores.