Patent ID: 8515152

Claim:
A process for identifying, analysing and estimating deformations in motor vehicles, comprising: loading image data relevant to at least a three-dimensional image of a damaged vehicle in a vehicle image memory; accessing image data of at least a three-dimensional image of a sample vehicle from a database of sample vehicle images, said sample vehicle image being the image of a vehicle type corresponding to the damaged vehicle type; displaying image data relevant to the damaged vehicle and to the corresponding sample vehicle type; automatically comparing said three-dimensional image of the damaged vehicle with the corresponding three-dimensional image of the sample vehicle and (i) identifying damage location or deformation and (ii) detecting deformed regions by visually comparing both images; indicating one or more of said damaged or deformed regions on at least one of the two images, said indicating including at least one of highlighting and delineation; storing image data corresponding to said damaged or deformed regions of said damaged vehicle; computing one or more of perimeter, area, volume and further morphologic parameters of said damaged or deformed region or regions; identifying a spatial location of said vehicle damage operating on one or more of the deformed regions and the results of said comparison; and computing labor times and costs for repairing the damaged or deformed regions, based at least in part on (i) said computed one or more of perimeter, area, volume of damaged or deformed region or regions and further morphologic parameters, and (ii) a database or repair times and costs.