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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2012
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Ser Nam Lim, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Vinod Padmanabhan Kumar, Bangalore Karnataka, IN;
Russell Robert Irving, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
John Brandon Laflen, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Li Guan, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Shubao Liu, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Xingwei Yang, Clifton Park, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented system for enhanced automated visual inspection of a physical asset includes a visual inspection device capable of generating images of the physical asset and a computing device including a processor and a memory device coupled to the processor. The computing device includes a storage device coupled to the memory device and coupled to the processor. The storage device includes at least one historic image of the physical asset and at least one engineering model substantially representing the physical asset. The computing device is configured to receive, from a present image source, at least one present image of the physical asset captured by the visual inspection device. The computing device is configured to identify at least one matching historic image corresponding to the at least one present image. The computing device is configured to identify at least one matching engineering model corresponding to the at least one present image.