Aerial camera system and method for determining size parameters of vehicle systems

US9919723B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Aadeesh Shivkant Bhagwatkar · Bengaluru, IN
• Sharon DSouza · Bengaluru, IN
• Krishna Chaitanya Narra · Bengaluru, IN
• Brad Thomas Costa · Melbourne, US
• Seneca Snyder · Melbourne, US
• Jerry Duncan · Melbourne, US
• Mark Bradshaw Kraeling · Melbourne, US
• Michael Scott Miner · Melbourne, US
• Shannon Joseph Clouse · Lawrence Park, US
• Anwarul Azam · Lawrence Park, US
• Matthew Lawrence Blair · Lawrence Park, US
• Nidhi Naithani · Bengaluru, IN
• Dattaraj Jagdish Rao · Bengaluru, IN
• Anju Bind · Bengaluru, IN
• Sreyashi Dey Chaki · Bengaluru, IN
• Scott Daniel Nelson · Melbourne, US
• Nikhil Uday Naphade · Bengaluru, IN
• Wing Yeung Chung · Erie, US
• Daniel Ballesty · Wattsburg, US
• Glenn Robert Shaffer · Erie, US
• Jeffrey James Kisak · Erie, US
• Dale Martin DiDomenico · Melbourne, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 15, 2015
• Grant date: Mar 20, 2018
• Expiry date: May 18, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B64U2201/20
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An aerial system and method use a distance sensor to measure spatial distances between the distance sensor and plural vehicles in a vehicle system formed from the vehicles operably coupled with each other during relative movement between the distance sensor and the vehicle system. The spatial distances measured by the distance sensor are used to determine a size parameter of the vehicle system based on the spatial distances that are measured.