US 11,721,010 B2
Vehicle self-inspection apparatus and method
Scott Nei, Carmel, IN (US); William Doyle, Fishers, IN (US); and Michelle Kaiser Bray, Carmel, IN (US)
Assigned to OPENLANE, Inc., Carmel, IN (US)
Filed by KAR Auction Services, Inc., Carmel, IN (US)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/27,283.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/903,930, filed on Sep. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0090240 A1, Mar. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2022.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2023.01); G06Q 10/20 (2023.01)
CPC G06T 7/0004 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/20 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30108 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30252 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mobile device comprising:
a camera configured to generate images;
a display;
a memory; and
a processor in communication with the camera, the display, and the memory, the processor configured to:
iterate for each of a plurality of predetermined views of a vehicle:
identify an image generated by the camera as an image for a respective predetermined view;
access damage associated with the respective predetermined view; and
output, based on a cost engine, a cost estimate for repair or replacement due to the damage associated with the respective predetermined view such that the cost estimate is output for the respective predetermined view for each iteration of the plurality of predetermined views;
output a total cost for the repair or the replacement of the damage associated with the plurality of predetermined views of the vehicle, the total cost being based on a tally of the cost estimate for each of the plurality of predetermined views; and
output one or more discrepancies between a first damage report and a second damage report, the first damage report being indicative of inputting the damage regarding the vehicle at a first time, the second damage report being indicative of inputting the damage regarding the vehicle at a second time, the second time being later chronologically than the first time, wherein the output of the one or more discrepancies is based on an analysis of the first damage report and the second damage report in order to identify the one or more discrepancies between the first damage report and the second damage report in a specific predetermined view, wherein the output comprises a modification of an image of the specific predetermined view from one or both of the first damage report or the second damage report in order to highlight the one or more discrepancies in the specific predetermined view.