Patent ID: 9076044
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A method for creating an evidentiary record of a wash event, comprising a. providing a calculation means for acquiring a series of wash images and extracting from each image of said series of wash images one or more specified fixed first regions of each said image indicative of the initiation of a wash event and one or more fixed specified second regions, distinct from said first regions of each said image, indicative of the continuation of said wash event, and: b. providing a calculation means for detecting activity in said one or more specified first regions of each said image indicative of the initiation of a wash event thereby determining the initiation of said wash event, and c. providing a calculation means after said detection of said initiation of said wash event for detecting activity in said one or more said second regions indicative of the continuation of said wash event as a determination that said wash event has not ended and that said wash event is continuing, and d. providing a calculation means for creating a wash record of said wash event after said determination that said wash event has initiated and including in said record periodic images of said wash event and other useful wash event information while said wash event is determined to be continuing, and e. providing a calculation means for closing said wash record and reverting to step a above after said determination that said wash event is no longer continuing, and providing a means for storing and subsequent processing, displaying and combining of said wash records.