Patent Document ID: 20160153913
Application ID: 12701033
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for identifying anomalies for an aircraft, the method comprising: monitoring, using a sensor system, to detect a presence of the aircraft in a control area, the aircraft characterized by a first side, a second side, and a bottom; responsive to the sensor system detecting the presence of the aircraft in the control area, identifying, using a number of array encoders, a speed of travel for the aircraft; determining a scan rate for the aircraft using the speed of travel, wherein the scan rate is a number of electrical signal pulses sent to a number of cameras to cause the number of cameras to take an exposure of the aircraft on each of the number of electrical signal pulses; identifying, using an object identifier of an analysis process of a computer of a maintenance control system, the aircraft; responsive to identifying the aircraft, identifying, using the analysis process and a scan priority database comprising a hierarchy of anomaly priorities, a number of scan priorities for the aircraft, wherein the number of scan priorities ranks different sections of the aircraft to be sought out during a scan based on information comprising operational maintenance information about the aircraft; responsive to identifying the number of scan priorities for the aircraft, scanning the aircraft, using the scan rate and a number of sensor components in an array in accordance with the number of scan priorities, the array including at least a horizontal array of sensors directed at the bottom of the aircraft and an angled array of sensors directed at the first side of the aircraft; and responsive to scanning the aircraft, using the analysis process for forming scan results and determining whether a number of maintenance anomalies is present among a set of locations for the aircraft, the set comprising: inside the aircraft, on an exterior surface of the aircraft, on an interior surface of the aircraft, and within a structure comprising the aircraft.