Patent Document ID: 10116885
Application ID: 15091317
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A thermal imaging system, the system comprising; a thermal imaging sensor configured to capture a plurality of thermal images containing thermal data of a plurality of assets in an environment; a non-thermal imaging sensor coupled to the thermal sensor, the non-thermal imaging sensor configured to capture a plurality of non-thermal images of the plurality of assets; an image alignment system; an asset identification system configured to identify a particular asset from the plurality of assets, the particular asset being previously identified by being input into the asset identification system, the asset identification system identifying the particular asset by instructing a user to capture a unique identifier image associated with the particular asset and comparing the capture to a plurality of baseline unique identifier images; a controller configured to control operation of the thermal imaging sensor, the non-thermal imaging sensor, and the image alignment system by: (i) presenting at least one of a previously-captured baseline image or a template image of the particular asset to the user via a display such that the user may approximate an orientation of a present thermal view of the particular asset and a present non-thermal view of the particular asset to the at least one of the previously-captured baseline image or template image, (ii) adjusting the orientation of a present thermal view of the particular asset and the present non-thermal view of the particular asset to match an orientation of at least one of the previously-captured baseline image or template image of the particular asset, and (iii) causing the thermal imaging sensor to capture a thermal image of the present thermal view of the particular asset and the non-thermal imaging sensor to capture a non-thermal image of the present non-thermal view of the particular asset; and a remote computing device configured to receive the captured thermal and non-thermal images of the particular asset, the remote computing device having a change detection system configured to detect a change in at least one characteristic of the particular asset using the thermal image captured by the thermal imaging sensor.