US 11,851,030 B2
Window defect sensing and image processing
Clarisse Mazuir, San Jose, CA (US); Malcolm J. Northcott, Felton, CA (US); Jack E. Graves, Sunnyvale, CA (US); James R. Wilson, Cupertino, CA (US); Christopher D. Jones, Los Gatos, CA (US); and Martin Melcher, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on May 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/804,287.
Application 17/000,134 is a division of application No. 15/980,637, filed on May 15, 2018, granted, now 10,755,123, issued on Aug. 25, 2020.
Application 17/804,287 is a continuation of application No. 17/000,134, filed on Aug. 21, 2020, granted, now 11,348,345.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/507,149, filed on May 16, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0284715 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06V 20/56 (2022.01); B60S 1/48 (2006.01); B60K 28/10 (2006.01); B60R 1/00 (2022.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); B60S 1/02 (2006.01); B60S 5/00 (2006.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); H04N 23/80 (2023.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01)
CPC B60S 1/485 (2013.01) [B60K 28/10 (2013.01); B60R 1/00 (2013.01); B60S 1/02 (2013.01); B60S 5/00 (2013.01); G05D 1/0231 (2013.01); G05D 1/0246 (2013.01); G05D 1/0257 (2013.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); H04N 23/80 (2023.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01); B60R 2300/30 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle, comprising:
a window that at least partially encompasses an interior of the vehicle;
one or more lighting modules to illuminate at least a portion of the window to facilitate detection of one or more volume defects in the at least a portion of the window;
an imaging system including one or more sensor devices to:
obtain first data by imaging the at least a portion of the window while the at least a portion of the window is illuminated by the one or more lighting modules; and
one or more processors to:
evaluate, based at least in part on the first data, one or more parameters that characterize the one or more volume defects in the at least a portion of the window to produce parameter evaluation data, wherein the one or more parameters include a distribution of the one or more volume defects with respect to the at least a portion of the window; and
designate, base at least in part on the parameter evaluation data, at least one of a repair status of at least the portion of the window or a replace status of the window, wherein:
designation of the repair status indicates a suggestion to repair at least the portion of the window; and
designation of the replace status indicates a suggestion to replace at least the portion of the window.