System and method for determining coating requirements
AssigneeValspar Sourcing, Inc.
InventorsJeffrey D. Bipes, William S. Daniel, Steven S. Bloomberg, Richard C. Cahill
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Abstract
A system and method for determining coating requirements with one or more computer-based systems, which includes receiving image files of a structure (e.g., a building), identifying one or more surfaces of the structure to be coated based on the received image files, determining a surface area for each of one or more surfaces to be coated, receiving coating application information, calculating a coating amount for each of the one or more surfaces to be coated based on the calculated surface area and the received coating application information, and optionally, communicating the calculated coating amounts.
Claims20
A method for determining coating requirements with one or more computer-based systems having one or more processors and one or more data storage devices, the method comprising:
- receiving image files of a structure to the data storage device(s);
- identifying with the processor(s) one or more surfaces of the structure to be coated based on the received image files;
- determining with the processor(s) a surface area for each of one or more surfaces to be coated;
- receiving coating application information to the data storage device(s);
- calculating with the processor(s) a coating amount for each of the one or more surfaces to be coated based on the calculated surface area and the received coating application information;
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- communicating the calculated coating amounts.
A method for determining coating requirements with one or more computer-based systems having one or more processors and one or more data storage devices, the method comprising:
- receiving image files of a structure to the data storage device(s);
- identifying with the processor(s) a surface of the structure to be coated based on the received image files;
- determining with the processor(s) a surface area for the surface to be coated;
- receiving coating application information to the data storage device(s), wherein the received coating application information comprises user efficiency information;
- calculating with the processor(s) a coverage factor for the surface to be coated based on the received coating application information;
- calculating with the processor(s) a coating amount for the surface based on the calculated coverage factor and the determined surface area;
- receiving feedback information to the data storage device(s);
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- updating with the processor(s) the user efficiency information based on the received feedback information.
A computer-based system for determining coating requirements, the computer-based system comprising:
- one or more data storage devices configured to receive image files of a structure and to receive coating application information;
- one or more processors;
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- a processing module stored on the data storage device(s), and is configured to be operated by the processor(s) to identify one or more surfaces of the structure to be coated based on the received image files, to determine a surface area for each of one or more surfaces to be coated, and to calculate a coating amount for each of the one or more surfaces to be coated based on the calculated surface area and the received coating application information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.