Patent ID: 7965312
Filing Date: 2011-06-21
Classification: B61L,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging system for generating landmark correlated images taken from a railroad locomotive comprising: a camera mounted on a locomotive for imaging an environment in a vicinity of the locomotive, the camera transmitting imaging data indicative of images acquired; a location sensor on-board the locomotive generating signals indicative of a geographic location of the locomotive constituting location data; a railroad landmark database comprising a plurality of railroad landmarks associated with respective geographic locations constituting landmark tags; and a processor receiving the imaging data and the location data and communicating with the railroad landmark database to compare the location data with the geographic locations constituting the landmark tags, such that said processor is configured to incorporate the landmark tag into the imaging data when the location data matches the geographic location constituting one of the landmark tags, such that the imaging data is searchable based on the landmark tags.