US 11,861,749 B2
Apparatus and method for calculating estimate for installation of water heater
Si Hwan Kim, Seoul (KR); and Heung Rak Son, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to Kyungdong Navien Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by KYUNGDONG NAVIEN CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Jul. 6, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/921,246.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0083924 (KR), filed on Jul. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0012396 A1, Jan. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/02 (2023.01); G06Q 50/16 (2012.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0875 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G05B 19/4155 (2006.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); F24H 9/20 (2022.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01)
CPC G06Q 50/163 (2013.01) [F24H 9/2007 (2013.01); G05B 19/4155 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06Q 10/0875 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01); G06T 7/0004 (2013.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G05B 2219/50333 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30164 (2013.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus calculating an installation estimate for installation of a water heater, the apparatus comprising:
an image analysis unit analyzing a water heater region image including at least one of a previously-installed water heater main body, a previously-installed pipe connected to the previously-installed water heater main body for fluid flow, and a room controller for controlling a water heater; and
a processing unit calculating an estimate required for the installation of a water heater to be installed on the basis of at least one of information about the model of the water heater to be installed and required dimensions of a pipe to be installed obtained on the basis of an analysis result of the image analysis unit,
wherein the processing unit determines a position at which the main body of the water heater to be installed is to be installed, adjusts the dimensions of the pipe to be installed in the water heater region image according to the determined position, and calculates an estimate required for the installation of the water heater to be installed on the basis of the adjusted dimensions of the pipe to be installed in the water heater region image.