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US 12,516,974 B2Granted
System for estimating a load index of a railway vehicle
AssigneeFaiveley Transport Italia S.P.A.
InventorMatteo Frea
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Abstract
A system for estimating a load index of a railway vehicle is described, comprising: an image acquisition means arranged to acquire a real-time image of a predetermined area inside a wagon of such a railway vehicle; and a control means arranged to determine the load index of the railway vehicle as a function of this image acquired by the image acquisition means.
Claims14
A system for estimating a load index of a railway vehicle, comprising:
- an image acquisition means arranged to acquire in real time an image of a predetermined area inside a wagon of said railway vehicle;
- and
- a control means arranged to determine an actual value of the load index of the railway vehicle as a function of said image acquired by the image acquisition means,
- wherein said control means is arranged for:
- comparing the image acquired by the image acquisition means with a plurality of predefined sample images;
- each sample image being assigned a predetermined load index of the railway vehicle;
- determining which sample image has the greatest degree of similarity with the image acquired by the image acquisition mean;
- and
- determining that the current load index of the railway vehicle corresponds with the predetermined load index assigned to the sample image determined to have the greatest degree of similarity with the image acquired by the image acquisition means.
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A system for estimating a load index of a railway vehicle, comprising:
- an image acquisition means arranged to acquire in real time an image of a predetermined area inside a wagon of said railway vehicle;
- and
- a control means arranged to determine an actual value of the load index of the railway vehicle as a function of said image acquired by the image acquisition means, wherein said control means is arranged for:
- counting the number of passengers in the image acquired by the image acquisition means;
- determining the actual value of the load index, on the basis of a predetermined maximum acceptable number of passengers within the railway vehicle and the counted number of passengers in the image acquired by the image acquisition means, through the following formula:
- Load
-
- index
- =
- counted
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- number
-
- of
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- passengers
- maximum
-
- number
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- of
-
- passengers
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- acceptable
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- in
-
- the
-
- railway
-
- vehicle
- .
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A system for estimating a load index of a railway vehicle, comprising:
- an image acquisition means arranged to acquire in real time an image of a predetermined area inside a wagon of said railway vehicle;
- and
- a control means arranged to determine an actual value of the load index of the railway vehicle as a function of said image acquired by the image acquisition means,
- wherein said control means is arranged for:
- counting the number of freight items in the image acquired by the image acquisition means;
- determining the actual value of the load index, on the basis of a predetermined maximum acceptable number of freight items within the railway vehicle and the counted number of freight items in the image acquired by the image acquisition means, through the following formula:
- Load
-
- index
- =
- counted
-
- number
-
- of
-
- freight
-
- items
- maximum
-
- number
-
- of
-
- freight
-
- items
-
- acceptable
-
- in
-
- the
-
- railway
-
- vehicle
- .
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