Patent ID: 9228834
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: G01C,G01M

Claim Text:
1. An article comprising a non transitory machine-readable storage medium including instructions that enable a system to: compare a crush damage pattern of a vehicle involved in an accident to entries in a database corresponding to crush damage patterns of vehicles from unrelated accidents, the database to dynamically add entries from additional unrelated accidents, wherein the crush damage pattern is based on a photogrammetric analysis of the vehicle, the photogrammetric analysis to: receive, in the system, a plurality of images of the vehicle; evaluate, in the system, the plurality of images for pose estimate information and store a pose estimate for each of the plurality of images; refine the stored pose estimate for each of the plurality of images via a bundle adjustment; determine, in the system, a location of damage points for the vehicle via triangulation using the plurality of images; and generate, in the system, a crush damage pattern for the vehicle using the location of damage points; select one or more of the entries of the database based on similarity to the crush damage pattern and a direction of impact; generate a report of expected vehicle component damage for the vehicle based on actual damage information for the selected one or more entries of the database; and store the report for later use.