US 12,033,218 B2
Assessing damages on vehicles
Bodhayan Dev, Sturbridge, MA (US); Sreedhar Patnala, Holliston, MA (US); Michael Johannes, Danvers, MA (US); and Prem Swaroop, Lexington, MA (US)
Assigned to Vehicle Service Group, LLC, Madison, IN (US)
Filed by Vehicle Service Group, LLC, Madison, IN (US)
Filed on Jan. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/589,453.
Prior Publication US 2023/0245240 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2022.01); G06Q 40/08 (2012.01); G06V 10/20 (2022.01); G06V 10/22 (2022.01); G06V 10/70 (2022.01)
CPC G06Q 40/08 (2013.01) [G06V 10/225 (2022.01); G06V 10/255 (2022.01); G06V 10/70 (2022.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for assessing damages on a vehicle, the computer-implemented method comprising:
accessing an image of at least one section of the vehicle, the image showing a plurality of shapes that each have been applied to indicate at least one damage area present in the at least one section of the vehicle;
providing the image as input to a first model that has been trained, through a first machine learning algorithm, to identify the plurality of shapes in the image and, in response, obtaining shape data that is generated by the first model, the shape data describing a position of each of one or more shapes identified in the image;
providing the image as input to a second model that has been trained, through a second machine learning algorithm, to identify one or more panels of the vehicle that are present in the at least one section shown in the image, and in response, obtaining panel data that is generated by the second model, the panel data describing a position of each of the one or more panels identified in the image;
automatically correlating the one or more shapes and the one or more panels based on the shape data with the panel data to determine, for each of the one or more panels of the vehicle, a number of shapes that are present on the panel; and
generating a damage assessment report that describes, for each of the one or more panels of the vehicle, the number of shapes that are present on the panel.