Patent Document ID: 20160026865
Application ID: 14339891
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of detecting a dynamic weather event comprising the steps of: receiving video images of a scene from a camera; dividing each of the video images into multiple regions, in which a region is defined by a range of distances from the camera to objects in the scene; selecting a region; segmenting the selected region into a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) image patches, in which each 3D image patch includes a time-sequence of T patches, with each patch comprised of N×M pixels, wherein N, M and T are integer numbers; measuring an image intensity level in each of the 3D image patches; masking 3D image patches containing image intensity levels that are above a first threshold level, or below a second threshold level; extracting features in each 3D image patch that is not discarded by the masking step; and in response to the extracted features, making a binary decision on detecting a dynamic weather event.