Systems and methods of automated detection of gas plumes using optical imaging
AssigneeSeekOps Inc.
InventorGuillermo Vargas
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Abstract
Systems, devices, and methods including: an optical gas imaging (OGI) camera; a processor in communication with the OGI camera, the processor configured to: capture at least two images of a scene with the camera; compare the captured at least two images to determine at least one of: a motion associated with a movement of the camera and a motion associated with a movement of a gas plume; apply a color to each pixel of the captured images based on at least one of: a direction of movement and a velocity of movement between the at least two captured images; subtract pixels from the colored pixels associated with the movement of the camera; and generate an image of an output of a gas plume based on the subtracted pixels and the applied color pixels.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a camera;
- a processor in communication with the camera, the processor configured to:
- capture at least two images of a scene with the camera;
- compare the captured at least two images to determine at least one of:
- a motion associated with a movement of the camera and a motion associated with a movement of a gas plume;
- apply a color to each pixel of the captured images based on at least one of:
- a direction of movement and a velocity of movement between the at least two captured images;
- subtract pixels from the colored pixels associated with the movement of the camera;
- and
- generate an image of an output of a gas plume based on the subtracted pixels and the applied color pixels.
A method comprising:
- capturing at least two images of a scene with a camera;
- comparing, by a processor in communication with the camera, the captured at least two images to determine at least one of:
- a motion associated with a movement of the camera and a motion associated with a movement of a gas plume;
- applying, by the processor, a color to each pixel of the captured images based on at least one of:
- a direction of movement and a velocity of movement between the at least two captured images;
- subtracting, by the processor, pixels from the colored pixels associated with the movement of the camera;
- and
- generating, by the processor, an image of an output of a gas plume based on the subtracted pixels and the applied color pixels.
A method comprising:
- capturing at least two images of a scene with an optical gas imaging (OGI) camera;
- detecting, by a processor in communication with the camera, a dominant movement direction and velocity, wherein the detected dominant movement direction and velocity is based on a movement of the camera between the captured at least two images;
- applying, by the processor, a color to each pixel of the captured images based on a direction of movement and a velocity of movement between the at least two captured images;
- subtracting, by the processor, pixels from the colored pixels associated with the dominant movement direction and velocity;
- and
- generating, by the processor, an image of an output of a gas plume based on the subtracted pixels and the applied color pixels, wherein the gas plume is accentuated in the generated image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.