Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Heat map of vehicle damage
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Application No.: US15160384Application Date: 2016-05-20
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Publication No.: US09886771B1Publication Date: 2018-02-06
- Inventor: Ke Chen , John L. Haller , Takeo Kanade , Athinodoros S. Georghiades
- Applicant: CCC INFORMATION SERVICES INC.
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: CCC INFORMATION SERVICES INC.
- Current Assignee: CCC INFORMATION SERVICES INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP
- Main IPC: G09G5/02
- IPC: G09G5/02 ; G06T7/32 ; G06T11/20 ; G06T11/00 ; G06T15/00 ; G06T9/00 ; G06F3/0484

Abstract:
An image processing system and/or method obtains source images in which a damaged vehicle is represented, and performs image processing techniques to determine, predict, estimate, and/or detect damage that has occurred at various locations on the vehicle. The image processing techniques may include generating a composite image of the damaged vehicle, aligning and/or isolating the image, applying convolutional neural network techniques to the image to generate damage parameter values, where each value corresponds to damage in a particular location of vehicle, and/or other techniques. Based on the damage values, the image processing system/method generates and displays a heat map for the vehicle, where each color and/or color gradation corresponds to respective damage at a respective location on the vehicle. The heat map may be manipulatable by the user, and may include user controls for displaying additional information corresponding to the damage at a particular location on the vehicle.
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