US 12,479,656 B2
Recyclable detection and identification system for recycling collection vehicles
David Husen, Austin, TX (US); Daniel Wintz, San Francisco, CA (US); Miles Price, Canyon, CA (US); Alex Woolf, Orinda, CA (US); and Jesse Tootell, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Orange Recycling, Inc., Orinda, CA (US)
Filed by Orange Recycling, Inc., Orinda, CA (US)
Filed on May 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/321,728.
Application 18/321,728 is a continuation of application No. 17/542,349, filed on Dec. 3, 2021, granted, now 11,661,273.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/120,970, filed on Dec. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0017916 A1, Jan. 18, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06V 20/56 (2022.01); B65F 3/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G06V 10/44 (2022.01); G06V 10/70 (2022.01); G06V 20/40 (2022.01)
CPC B65F 3/00 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3602 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06V 10/25 (2022.01); G06V 10/44 (2022.01); G06V 10/70 (2022.01); G06V 20/46 (2022.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); B65F 2210/138 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A recyclable identification system comprising:
an imaging system configured to be disposed on a collection vehicle to image objects as the objects pass from a bin into a container of the collection vehicle;
a camera configured to be disposed on a collection vehicle that images at least a portion of the bin having a bin identifier;
a GPS sensor;
a transceiver; and
a controller communicatively coupled with the imaging system, the camera, the GPS sensor, and the transceiver, the controller:
receives a plurality of images from the imaging system, the plurality of images includes images of objects as they are being dumped into the container;
determines a bin identifier from images from the camera;
receives GPS data from the GPS sensor;
combines the plurality of images with the bin identifier and the GPS data;
transmits the plurality of images, the GPS data, and the bin identifier to a cloud computing system via the transceiver.