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US 11,236,477 B2Granted
Vehicle for removing foreign objects
OwnerNorman Boyleinventor
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a vehicle for removing foreign objects (e.g. rubbish) from an area proximal to the vehicle (e.g. along a roadside). The vehicle comprises an arm that is moveable into a foreign object collecting position, a foreign object collector located at a distal end of the arm and configured for collecting foreign objects, and a conduit for conveying collected foreign objects to a storage bin.
Claims16
A vehicle for removing pieces of roadside litter from an area proximal to the vehicle, the vehicle comprising:
- an arm that is moveable into a position at a piece of roadside litter;
- a collector located at a distal end of the arm and configured to collect the piece of roadside litter;
- an arm control system whereby movement of the arm to respective pieces of roadside litter is controllable by an operator of the vehicle;
- a conduit for conveying collected pieces of roadside litter to a storage bin;
- a roadside litter locating system for mapping a location of the pieces of roadside litter in the area proximal to the vehicle, wherein the roadside litter locating system comprises:
- one or more cameras for recording a digital image of the area proximal to the vehicle and
- an image analyser for identifying the pieces of roadside litter in the digital image,
- wherein the image analyser comprises image recognition to recognise one or both of:
- predefined pieces of roadside litter, and predefined objects which are expected to be found in the area proximal to the vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.