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

Claim 14:
15. 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 at least a portion 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:
produce, based on the image data, an image of the surface of the rail, the surface of the rail in the image including a plurality of elongated portions;
divide the image of the surface of the rail into the plurality of elongated portions, wherein the division of the image of the surface of the rail is across a width of the surface of the rail;
analyze the image to identify one or more defects within each of the plurality of elongated portions of the surface of the rail;
determine a value of a plurality of metrics for each of the plurality of elongated portions of the surface of the rail, the plurality of metrics including at least one metric that is a weighted sum of two or more other metrics, the plurality of metrics being associated with the identified one or more defects within each of the plurality of elongated portions of the surface of the rail; and
cause the electronic display device to display (i) the image of the surface of the rail, (ii) a graph indicative of the plurality of metrics for each of the plurality of elongated portions of the surface of the rail, and (iii) a visual marker indicating the value of each of the plurality of metrics for one of the plurality of elongated portions of the surface of the rail.