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US 12,709,223 B1Granted
Vehicular multi-directional thermal camera system and methods for capturing radiometric thermography data of a target object from a moving vehicle
AssigneeFast Forward LLC
InventorDusty Layne Birge
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Abstract
A vehicular multi-directional thermal camera system are disclosed. The vehicular multi-directional thermal camera system utilizes a multi-directional radiometric thermal camera with multiple thermal cameras which is triggered automatically, thereby making image capture during motion of the vehicle possible by a single operator driving the vehicle.
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A method for capturing radiometric thermography data of an object from a moving vehicle comprising:
- automatically capturing, by a plurality of thermal cameras attached to the moving vehicle, radiometric thermography data of an area within respective fields of view of the plurality of thermal cameras while the moving vehicle is in motion;
- processing the captured radiometric thermography data by an artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision system;
- identifying a location of a target object by triangulating a geospatial position of the target object based on (i) multiple GPS locations of the moving vehicle and (ii) a relative distance between the moving vehicle and the target object;
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- processing the radiometric thermography data of the target object to detect anomalies.
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A vehicular multi-directional thermal camera system comprising:
- an in-vehicle electronic recording device that is used in a vehicle to detect anomalies in electrical infrastructure objects;
- a plurality of thermal cameras configured to capture radiometric thermography data of areas outside the vehicle while the vehicle is moving and transmit the captured radiometric thermography data to the in-vehicle electronic recording device in realtime, wherein the plurality of thermal cameras are oriented to capture radiometric thermography data in a plurality of different directions;
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- a global positioning system (GPS) configured to calculate GPS coordinates of multiple locations of the vehicle as the vehicle is moving and transmit the calculated GPS coordinates to the in-vehicle electronic recording device in realtime, wherein the in-vehicle electronic recording device is configured to determine a relative distance between the vehicle and a target object based on the radiometric thermography data and to identify GPS coordinates of the target object by triangulating the GPS coordinates of the multiple locations of the vehicle and the relative distance to the target object.
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