System for detecting image abnormalities

• US 9,633,425 B2
• Filed: 02/12/2016
• Issued: 04/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pictometry International Corporation (Eagleview Technologies, Inc. /Wa/)
• Original Assignee: Pictometry International Corporation (Eagleview Technologies, Inc. /Wa/)
• Inventors: Giuffrida, Frank, Schultz, Stephen
• Primary Examiner(s): HSIA, SHERRIE Y
• Application Number:
  US15/043,068
• Publication Number:
  US 20160163032A1
• Time in Patent Office: 438 Days
• Field of Search: 348142-144, 382254, 382109, 701 9, 701 3
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10016 Video; Image sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10032 Satellite or aerial image; Remote sensing
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30168 Image quality inspection
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30184 Infrastructure
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0002 Inspection of images, e.g. flaw detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/64 Computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality, advice or proposal for image composition or decision on when to take image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control

Abstract

Image capture systems including a moving platform; an image capture device having a sensor for capturing an image, the image having pixels, mounted on the moving platform; and a detection computer executing an abnormality detection algorithm for detecting an abnormality in the pixels of the image immediately after the image is captured by scanning the image utilizing predetermined parameters indicative of characteristics of the abnormality and then automatically and immediately causing a re-shoot of the image.

Claims

1. An image capture system, comprising:

a moving platform;

an image capture device mounted on the moving platform, the image capture device having a sensor for capturing an image, the image having pixels; and

a detection computer executing an abnormality detection algorithm configured to detect an abnormality in the pixels of the image, the abnormality obscuring at least a portion of the image, immediately after the image is captured by scanning the image utilizing predetermined parameters indicative of characteristics of the abnormality and then automatically causing a re-shoot of the image after a time delay, the time delay based at least in part on characteristics of the abnormality and movement of the moving platform, such that the re-shoot of the image captures the portion of the image obscured by the abnormality.

2. The image capture system of claim 1, wherein the abnormality is caused by overstimulation of the sensor of the image capture device.

3. The image capture system of claim 1, wherein automatically causing a reshoot of the image is defined further as causing a sequence of re-shoots of the image.

4. The image capture system of claim 3, wherein the image is a first scheduled image scheduled for capture before a second scheduled image, and wherein causing a sequence of re-shoots of the first scheduled image is defined further as causing a sequence of re-shoots of the first scheduled image until the second scheduled image.

5. The image capture system of claim 3, wherein causing a sequence of re-shoots of the image is defined further as executing the abnormality detection algorithm for detecting an abnormality in the pixels of the re-shoots of the image immediately after each of the re-shoots of the image is captured by scanning each of the re-shoots of the image utilizing predetermined parameters indicative of characteristics of the abnormality and ending the sequence of re-shoots of the image upon a lack of detection of an abnormality in one or more of the re-shoots of the image.