Patent ID: 8542881

Claim:
A system for automatically inspecting at least one tire of a moving vehicle, comprising: one or more image acquisition devices including at least one camera device configured for acquiring multiple photographs of at least one tire of a moving vehicle when the at least one tire enters a field of view of the at least one camera device; a light source for providing light on the at least one tire in the field of view of the at least one camera device, the light being synchronous with the photographing by the at least one camera device; and a computer image processing component for receiving the multiple photographs transmitted from the at least one camera device, the computer image processing component analyzing the multiple photographs using a detection program, the detection program being stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium of a computer system, the computer imaging processing component analyzing the multiple photographs and providing an inspection analysis of the at least one tire, the detection program analyzing the multiple photographs to determine a tread depth of the at least one tire and providing a rating of the at least one tire used to determine when the at least one tire should be replaced, and the computer image processing component transmitting inspection analysis results and the multiple photographs for storage thereof.