System and method for automatically detecting damages in vehicles

• Main Authors: Sandler, Roman, Ekstein, Eliron, Serebryiani, Alexander, Kenis, Alexander
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 27.02.2024
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDEDFOR ELSEWHERE; CALCULATING; CHECKING-DEVICES; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; PHYSICS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS

An automatic system for detecting a damage to a vehicle, comprising: (a) at least one camera for capturing "handover" and "return" images irrespective of the vehicle's movement or orientation relative to the camera; (b) a memory for storing images of basic-parts (c) a first determination unit for, based on the basic-parts images, determine the location of one or more basic-parts within the "handover" and "return" images; (d) a second determination unit configured to, based on the determined locations of the basic parts within the images, determine the locations of "other parts" within the "handover" and "return" images, thereby to form "handover" and "return" part-images, respectively; (e) a transformation unit configured to separately transform each pair of "handover" and "return" part-images, respectively, to a same plane; (f) a comparison unit configured to separately compare pixel-by-pixel each transformed pairs of "handover" and "return" part-images, to detect a difference above a predefined threshold.