Patent Document ID: 8682417
Application ID: 13282451
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: receiving, via a thermal sensor that has a field of view, thermal signals from a group that comprises no fewer than three animal subjects, wherein the animal subjects of the group are simultaneously present within the field of view of the thermal sensor while the thermal signals are received; generating a set of thermal data only from the thermal signals received from the group of simultaneously present animal subjects; identifying, for each animal subject, a subset of the thermal data that corresponds with at least a portion of the animal subject; determining a baseline for the group of animal subjects from the subsets of thermal data; comparing the subsets of thermal data to the baseline to determine whether the subset of thermal data for any of the animal subjects statistically deviates from the baseline such that the animal subject associated with the statistically deviant thermal data is a thermal outlier relative to the remaining animal subjects; generating an image of the field of view of the thermal sensor; and identifying an animal subject within the image that corresponds to the thermal outlier.