GAS LEAKAGE DETECTING SYSTEM AND METHOD
First Claim
1. A gas leakage detecting system for detecting leaking gas, comprising:
- a camera set having visible-light cameras and infrared cameras photographing a gas monitoring area;
a composite image coupling unit that couples visible-light images captured by the visible-light cameras and infrared images captured by the infrared cameras, extracts gas leakage points from the coupled infrared images when a temperature of a specific gas, which was previously stored in a database (DB), is detected, and makes a composite of the extracted gas leakage points and visible-light images to create composite images;
a screen output unit outputting the composite images created by the composite image coupling unit to an administrator terminal so as to enable an administrator to ascertain the composite images; and
a control unit analyzing a type of the gas and a range of gas leakage from the temperature of the specific gas detected at the gas leakage points,wherein the control unit records the visible-light images and the infrared images, and stores the recorded images in a storage unit when the temperature of the specific gas which was previously stored in the DB is detected by the composite image coupling unit.
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Abstract
A gas leakage detecting system for detecting leaking gas includes a camera set having visible-light cameras and infrared cameras photographing a gas monitoring area, a composite image coupling unit that couples visible-light images captured by the visible-light cameras and infrared images captured by the infrared cameras, extracts gas leakage points from the coupled infrared images when a temperature of a specific gas, which was previously stored in a database (DB), is detected, and creates a composite of the extracted gas leakage points and the visible-light images to create composite images, a screen output unit outputting the composite images created by the composite image coupling unit to an administrator terminal so as to enable an administrator to identify the composite images, and a control unit analyzing a type of the gas and a gas leakage area from the temperature of the specific gas detected from the gas leakage points.
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20 Claims
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1. A gas leakage detecting system for detecting leaking gas, comprising:
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a camera set having visible-light cameras and infrared cameras photographing a gas monitoring area; a composite image coupling unit that couples visible-light images captured by the visible-light cameras and infrared images captured by the infrared cameras, extracts gas leakage points from the coupled infrared images when a temperature of a specific gas, which was previously stored in a database (DB), is detected, and makes a composite of the extracted gas leakage points and visible-light images to create composite images; a screen output unit outputting the composite images created by the composite image coupling unit to an administrator terminal so as to enable an administrator to ascertain the composite images; and a control unit analyzing a type of the gas and a range of gas leakage from the temperature of the specific gas detected at the gas leakage points, wherein the control unit records the visible-light images and the infrared images, and stores the recorded images in a storage unit when the temperature of the specific gas which was previously stored in the DB is detected by the composite image coupling unit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A gas leakage detecting method comprising the processes of:
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(a) photographing a gas monitoring area using a camera set having visible-light cameras and infrared cameras; (b) coupling visible-light images captured by the visible-light cameras and infrared images captured by the infrared cameras, extracting gas leakage points from the coupled infrared images when a temperature of a specific gas, which was previously stored in a database (DB), is detected, and making a composite of the extracted gas leakage points and the composite visible-light images to create composite images; and (c) outputting the composite images created in the process (b) to an administrator terminal and analyzing, by a control unit, a type of the gas and a range of gas leakage from the temperature of the specific gas detected from the gas leakage points, wherein the control unit records the visible-light images and the infrared images, and stores the recorded images in a storage unit when the temperature of the specific gas which was previously stored in the DB is detected in the process (b). - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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