Railway asset tracking and mapping system
AssigneeHerzog Technologies, Inc.
InventorsGlen F. Dargy, James W. Hanlon, JR., Matthew A. Schouten, Lee G. Olson
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Abstract
A railway asset tracking and mapping system stores positions and visual imagery associated with physical railroad assets such as signals, road crossings, platforms, and mile posts along a segment of a railway track and displays the geographic positions and imagery of those physical assets in simultaneous and correlated track chart, video imagery, and map formats on an integrated interactive display. An associated method of displaying correlated track chart, video imagery an map is also disclosed.
Claims20
A method for tracking and mapping physical locations of railway assets, comprising:
- providing a vehicle configured for travel on rails of a rail system having assets to be tracked;
- capturing, by a video imagery device attached to the vehicle, imagery data corresponding to one or more assets in proximity to the rail system;
- acquiring, by a positional data system, positional information associated with the one or more assets;
- correlating the positional information associated with at least one of the one or more assets with video imagery associated with that at least one of the one or more assets;
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- presenting a track chart format display of a plurality of railway assets in conjunction with a display of imagery associated with a positional reference on the track chart display.
A system for tracking and mapping physical locations of railway assets, comprising:
- a vehicle configured for travel on rails of a rail system having assets to be tracked;
- a video imagery capture device attached to the vehicle, operable to capture imagery data corresponding to one or more assets in proximity to the rail system;
- a positional data system attached to the vehicle, operable to capture positional information associated with the one or more assets;
- a processor operable to correlate the positional information associated with at least one of the one or more assets with video imagery associated with that at least one of the one or more assets and to present a track chart format display of a plurality of railway assets in conjunction with a display of imagery associated with a positional reference on the track chart display.
A method for tracking and mapping physical locations of railway assets, comprising:
- acquiring video and positional data associated with a plurality of assets in proximity to a section of railway of interest;
- correlating positional information associated with at least one of the plurality of assets with video imagery associated with the at least one of the plurality of assets;
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- presenting a track chart format display of a plurality of railway assets in conjunction with a display of imagery associated with a positional reference on the track chart display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.