Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automatic detection, counting, and measurement of lumber boards using a handheld device
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Application No.: US15854500Application Date: 2017-12-26
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Publication No.: US10586321B2Publication Date: 2020-03-10
- Inventor: Marius Leordeanu , Vlad Licaret , Tudor Buzu , Iulia-Adriana Muntianu , Catalin Mutu
- Applicant: Fordaq SA
- Applicant Address: BE Brussels
- Assignee: Fordaq SA
- Current Assignee: Fordaq SA
- Current Assignee Address: BE Brussels
- Agency: Fenwick & West LLP
- Main IPC: G06T7/12
- IPC: G06T7/12 ; G06T7/00 ; G06T7/60 ; G06T7/13

Abstract:
An image processing system receives an image depicting a bundle of boards. The bundle of boards has a front face that is perpendicular to a long axis of boards and the image is captured at an angle relative to the long axis. The image processing system applies a homographic transformation to estimate a frontal view of the front face and identifies a plurality of divisions between rows in the estimate. For each adjacent pair of the plurality of divisions between rows, a plurality of vertical divisions is identified. The image processing system identifies a set of bounding boxes defined by pairs of adjacent divisions between rows and pairs of adjacent vertical divisions. The image processing system may filter and/or merge some bounding boxes to better match the bounding boxes to individual boards. Based on the bounding boxes, the image processing system determines the number of boards in the bundle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180182088A1 Automatic Detection, Counting, and Measurement of Lumber Boards Using a Handheld Device Public/Granted day:2018-06-28
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