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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2014
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Guiju Song, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Charles Burton Theurer, Alplaus, NY (US);
Tai-Peng Tian, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Balajee Kannan, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Arpit Jain, Niskayuna, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system that include an imaging device configured to capture image data of the vehicle. The vehicle includes one or more components of interest. The method and system include a memory device configured to store an image detection algorithm based on one or more image templates corresponding to the one or more components of interest. The method and system also includes an image processing unit operably coupled to the imaging device in the memory device. The image processing unit is configured to determine one or more shapes of interest of the image data using the image detection algorithm that correspond to the one or more components of interest, and determine one or more locations of the one or more shapes of interest respective to the vehicle.