Patent ID: 11875301
Assignee: THE HEIL CO.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 10:
11. A system comprising:
a refuse collection vehicle (RCV) comprising:
a hopper configured to receive refuse;
a body sensor device configured to detect an operational state of a vehicle body component of the RCV; and
a camera configured to generate digitized images of refuse collected by the RCV; and

at least one processor communicably coupled to the body sensor device and the camera, the at least one processor configured to perform operations comprising:
receiving a plurality of images of refuse, each image of the plurality of images being labeled as either including contaminated refuse or not including contaminated refuse;
training, based on the labeling, at least one machine learning model using the plurality of images; and
detecting, based on sensor data generated by the body sensor device, a presence of a triggering condition based at least partly on a particular operational state of the vehicle body component, the sensor data indicating an operational state of the vehicle body component of the RCV;
in response to detecting the triggering condition, accessing image data generated by the camera, the image data indicating a physical state of refuse collected by the RCV;
providing the image data as input to the trained at least one machine learning model, to output a classification of the data, wherein the classification indicates a degree of contamination of the refuse;
storing, in a machine-readable medium, the classification of the image data;
receiving, from a user, feedback regarding the accuracy of the classification of the image data output by the at least one machine learning model; and
retraining the at least one machine learning model based on the image data, the classification, and the feedback regarding the accuracy of the classification.