Patent ID: 11912320
Assignee: ENSCO, INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system for visualizing and quantifying surface damage of a railroad track, the system comprising:
a camera configured to be coupled to a transport device such that the camera is (i) disposed adjacent to a rail of the railroad track and (ii) configured to generate image data reproducible as an image of a surface of the rail, the transport device being configured to travel along the railroad track;
an electronic display device;
a memory device configured to receive and store therein the generated image data; and
one or more processors configured to:
divide each of the plurality of first images into a plurality of elongated portions across a width of the surface of the rail;
produce, based on the image data, a plurality of first images, each of the plurality of first images being of a respective one of the plurality of elongated portions of the surface of the rail;
analyze the plurality of first images to identify one or more defects in the surface of the rail within each of the elongated portions of the surface of the rail;
determine a value of at least one metric for each of the elongated portions of the surface of the rail, the at least one metric being associated with the identified one or more defects in the surface of the rail within each respective one of the elongated portions of the surface of the rail; and
cause the electronic display device to display (i) a second image including each of the elongated portions of the surface of the rail and (ii) a graph indicative of the at least one metric for each of the elongated portions of the surface of the rail.