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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
May. 20, 2016
Ccc Information Services Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Ke Chen, Chicago, IL (US);
John L. Haller, Valencia, CA (US);
Takeo Kanade, Sasayama, JP;
Athinodoros S. Georghiades, Strovolos, CY;
CCC INFORMATION SERVICES INC., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
An image processing system and/or method obtains source images in which a damaged vehicle is represented, and performs image processing techniques to determine, predict, estimate, and/or detect damage that has occurred at various locations on the vehicle. The image processing techniques may include generating a composite image of the damaged vehicle, aligning and/or isolating the image, applying convolutional neural network techniques to the image to generate damage parameter values, where each value corresponds to damage in a particular location of vehicle, and/or other techniques. Based on the damage values, the image processing system/method generates and displays a heat map for the vehicle, where each color and/or color gradation corresponds to respective damage at a respective location on the vehicle. The heat map may be manipulatable by the user, and may include user controls for displaying additional information corresponding to the damage at a particular location on the vehicle.