Detection of a risk of collision with an object in a water area
AssigneeSEA.AI GmbH
InventorNikolaus KONIG
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for avoiding a collision between a boat and at least one object in a water area, said method comprising the steps of receiving (S3) a sequence of images from the camera module representing at least one object in the water area, detecting (S4) the at least one object in the images, tracking (S5) each object in each image of the sequence of images, said tracking comprising at least determining the bearing of each detected object, recording (S6) the bearing of each tracked object, triggering (S9) an alert when the number of recorded bearing values over a maximum bearing interval overtakes a predetermined detection threshold in order to avoid a collision between the boat and the at least one object.
Claims16
1-15. (canceled)
A method for avoiding a collision between a boat and at least one object in a water area, said boat comprising an anti-collision system comprising a camera module and a tracking module, said camera module being configured to generate a sequence of images representing said water area and to send said generated sequence of images to said tracking module, said method, operated by the tracking module, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a sequence of images from the camera module, said images representing at least one object in the water area,
- detecting the at least one object in the images,
- tracking each object in each image of the sequence of images, said tracking comprising at least determining the bearing of each detected object,
- recording the bearing of each tracked object,
- triggering an alert when the number of recorded bearing values over a maximum bearing interval overtakes a predetermined detection threshold in order to avoid a collision between the boat and the at least one object
A tracking module for avoiding a collision between a boat and at least one object in a water area, said boat comprising an anti-collision system comprising a camera module and said tracking module, said camera module being configured to generate a sequence of images representing said water area and to send said generated sequence of images to said tracking module, said tracking module being configured to:
- receive a sequence of images from the camera module, said images representing at least one object in the water area,
- detect the at least one object in the images,
- track each object in each image of the sequence of images, said tracking comprising at least determining the bearing of each detected object,
- record the bearing of each tracked object,
- trigger an alert when the number of recorded bearing values over a maximum bearing interval overtakes a predetermined detection threshold in order to avoid a collision between the boat and the at least one object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.