Patent ID: 11893727
Assignee: HARSCO TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 12:
13. A railroad track feature detection system comprising:
an imaging device configured to be coupled to a frame of a rail vehicle and postioned such that the imaging device is configured to capture a plurality of images of a rail track as the rail vehicle moves along the rail track; and
a computer having:
at least one memory comprising instuctions, at least a portion of the instructions configured as a neural network; and
at least one processor configured to execute the instructions, wherein the instructions cause the at least one processor to perform one or more operation in real-time;

wherein the one or more operations include:
receiving the plurality of images, and for each of the images:
assigning a location identifier; and
identifying one or more rail features that correspond to one of a plurality of predetermined rail features; and
determining a location of each of the one or more identified rail features wherein the computer includes an object detector module, a color detector module, and a tracker module; and

wherein the color detector module is configured to:
receive the plurality of images;
determine a hue/saturation/value (HSV) of a plurality of pixels within a latest image of the plurality of images;
detect, in real-time, one or more color markers in the latest image; and
output the one or more color markers.