Modular camera that uses artificial intelligence to categorize photos

    公开(公告)号:US11895387B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-06

    申请号:US17860700

    申请日:2022-07-08

    摘要: A modular camera includes a battery module, a camera module, and a lens module that can be connected together to make a water-tight camera suitable for monitoring wastewater in wet environments. The camera module includes multiple different external device interfaces that allow the camera to be directly connected to external power, a number of different analog and/or digital sensors, an auxiliary camera, and one or more control outputs. The camera module includes an artificial intelligence (AI) photo analysis tool that analyzes photographs taken by the camera based on an AI model to automatically categorize each photo in near real-time, thereby allowing the camera itself to detect alarm conditions based on an assigned category for a photo, to take action in response to the alarm, and optionally to activate one or more external devices in response to the alarm.

    WASTEWATER MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD
    12.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170248835A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-31

    申请号:US15595901

    申请日:2017-05-15

    IPC分类号: G03B17/08 G03B37/00 H04N5/225

    摘要: A wastewater monitoring system uses a camera in a fixed location in a wastewater pipe that takes a still photograph of a location of interest at defined intervals, such as five minutes. The photographs are retrieved from the camera, and are then analyzed on a computer system that aggregates the still photographs into a video stream, allows a user to define an area of interest on one of the still photographs, then uses suitable algorithms or heuristics to detect changes between the photographs in the video stream. Video clips of interest are then generated using the detected changes, and are identified to a user so the user can review the video clips of interest to determine flows in the wastewater pipe that was monitored.