AUTOMATIC AND GUIDED INTERIOR INSPECTION

• Main Authors: GUT, Tobias, TRUNK, Lothar, MUELLER-DIVEKY, Stefan
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.09.2023
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS

An inspection arrangement (8) for an interior (4) with objects (6) of a passenger vehicle (2) contains an image recording unit (10a-c) for an image (18) of the interior (4) of the vehicle (2) with the object (6), a classification database (20) with classification values (22) for the objects (6) and assignment rules (24) for assigning the classification values (22) to specific image contents (26) depicting the objects (6), an image analysis unit (28) which is connected to the database (20) in order to automatically analyse the image contents (26) and to assign classification values (22) according to the assignment rules (24), and interfaces (30a,b) for the input and/or output of classification values (22) and/or images (18) from and/or to a downstream entity (34).In an inspection method with the aid of the inspection arrangement (8), an image (18) is recorded, the image content (26) analysed automatically using the database (20) by the analysis unit (28), and classification values (22) assigned with the aid of the assignment rules (24) to the image content (26), and the classification values (22) assigned to the image (18), and optionally also the image (18), are output via the interfaces (30a,b) to a downstream entity (34) and/or input.