Radiation source
    1.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11219113B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-04

    申请号:US16964717

    申请日:2019-01-23

    摘要: An inspection radiation source is provided. The inspection radiation source includes an electron accelerator for generating an electron current, and a target for the electron current including a first part and a second part. This first part is configured to be at least partly exposed to the electron current on an impact area having a first width in a direction substantially perpendicular to the electron current, and inhibit propagation of the electron current. The second part has a second width in the direction substantially perpendicular to the electron current, the second width of the second part being smaller than the first width of the impact area, the second part being configured to be at least partly exposed to the electron current, and generate inspection radiation by emitting X-rays in response to being exposed to the electron current.

    Scatter imaging
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11016218B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-25

    申请号:US16321243

    申请日:2017-07-27

    发明人: Guillaume Jegou

    IPC分类号: G21K1/00 G01V5/00 G21K1/02

    摘要: In one aspect, it is disclosed a detection system comprising: a plurality of detectors, each detector being configured to detect radiation scattered by an associated respective portion of a load to inspect, the radiation being scattered in response to the respective portion being irradiated by radiation transmitted through the portion; and a plurality of collimators associated with the plurality of detectors, each collimator of the plurality of collimators being associated with a respective detector of the plurality of detectors and being configured to, for each detector of the plurality of detectors: enable radiation scattered by the respective portion of the load to reach the associated detector of the plurality of detectors, and inhibit other scattered radiation from reaching the associated detector.

    Determination of a degree of homogeneity in images

    公开(公告)号:US10198656B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-05

    申请号:US15509354

    申请日:2015-09-09

    摘要: In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a method for determining a degree of homogeneity in one or more inspection images of cargo in one or more containers, comprising: determining whether a zone of interest in one or more processed inspection images comprises one or more patterns, wherein the one or more processed inspection images are processed from one or more inspection images generated by an inspection system configured to inspect the one or more containers; and in the event that one or more patterns is determined and that a variation in the determined one or more patterns is identified, classifying the one or more inspection images as having a degree of homogeneity below a predetermined homogeneity threshold.

    Identification or determination of a load based on texture

    公开(公告)号:US10134147B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-20

    申请号:US15304377

    申请日:2015-03-27

    发明人: Najib Gadi

    IPC分类号: G06T7/40 G06K9/00 G01N23/04

    摘要: In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a method for inspecting a load (101) in a container (100), comprising: classifying (S2) one or more patches (11) of a digitized inspection image (10), the digitized inspection image (10) being generated by an inspection system (1) configured to inspect the container (100) by transmission of inspection radiation (3) from an inspection radiation source (31) to an inspection radiation detector (32) through the container (100), wherein the classifying (S2) comprises: extracting (S21) one or more texture descriptors (V, P) of a patch (11), and classifying (S22) the patch (11), by comparing the one or more extracted texture descriptors (V, P) of the patch (11) to respective one or more reference texture descriptors (Vr, Wr, Pr) corresponding to respective one or more classes (202) of reference items (201), the one or more reference texture descriptors (Vr, Wr, Pr) of each class of reference items (201) being extracted from one or more reference images (20) of the one or more reference items (201).

    EQUIPMENT FOR THE RADIOGRAPHY OF A LOAD FOR PERFORMING DETECTION, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD
    5.
    发明申请
    EQUIPMENT FOR THE RADIOGRAPHY OF A LOAD FOR PERFORMING DETECTION, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD 审中-公开
    用于执行检测的负载的放射性设备及相关方法

    公开(公告)号:US20140341342A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-11-20

    申请号:US14362687

    申请日:2012-12-05

    IPC分类号: G01V5/00

    摘要: The invention relates to equipment (1) for the radiography of a load (11) moving relative thereto, the radiography equipment comprising a source (2) for emitting pulses (16) of divergent X-rays, a collimator (4) for the source for delimiting an incident x-ray beam (22), and sensors (8) for receiving X-rays, which are aligned with the incident beam so as to collect the X-rays after the latter have passed through the load and generate raw image signals. The equipment includes a reference block (6) comprising the intermediate x-ray sensors (28) which are to be located within the incident beam, between the source and the load, so as to be irradiated by at least two separate angular sectors of the incident beam, and which are to output separate reference signals corresponding to each angular sector to be used in the conversion of the raw image signals into a portion of a radiographic image. The invention also relates to a corresponding method.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及用于相对于其移动的负载(11)的射线照相的设备(1),该射线照相设备包括用于发射发散X射线的脉冲(16)的源(2),用于源的准直器(4) 用于限定入射的X射线束(22)和用于接收与入射光束对准的X射线的传感器(8),以便在X射线通过负载并收集原始图像之后收集X射线 信号。 该设备包括一个参考块(6),该参考块(6)包括位于入射光束内的源和负载之间的中间X射线传感器(28),以便由至少两个分开的角度扇区 入射光束,并且其将输出对应于将原始图像信号转换成放射线照相图像的一部分的每个角扇区的单独参考信号。 本发明还涉及相应的方法。

    Denoising and/or zooming of inspection images

    公开(公告)号:US10713759B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-14

    申请号:US15761927

    申请日:2016-09-23

    摘要: In one aspect, there is provided a method of denoising one or more inspection images comprising a plurality of pixels, comprising: receiving an inspection image generated by an inspection system configured to inspect one or more containers, the inspection image being corrupted by a Poisson-Gaussian noise and a variance of the noise being non-constant in the plurality of pixels, and denoising the received inspection image by applying, to the inspection image, a variance-stabilizing transformation for transforming the variance of the noise into a constant variance in the plurality of pixels, wherein the variance-stabilizing transformation is based on a descriptor associated with the angular divergence of the inspection radiation and the Poisson-Gaussian noise.

    INSPECTION SYSTEM WITH A MATRIX AND METHOD
    7.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190170895A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-06

    申请号:US16321204

    申请日:2017-07-27

    发明人: Guillaume Jegou

    IPC分类号: G01V5/00 G01N23/04

    摘要: In one aspect, it is disclosed a system for inspection of a load, comprising: a detection device configured to detect, after transmission through the load, successive radiation pulses emitted at a predetermined frequency by a source, the load being in movement in an inspection direction, at an inspection speed with respect to the system, the detection device comprising a matrix of a plurality of arrays of detectors, wherein the matrix has a width associated with the inspection direction, the width of the matrix being based on the inspection speed of the load and the predetermined frequency of the successive radiation pulses.

    DENOISING AND/OR ZOOMING OF INSPECTION IMAGES

    公开(公告)号:US20180260937A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-13

    申请号:US15761927

    申请日:2016-09-23

    IPC分类号: G06T5/00 G06T3/40 G06T7/30

    摘要: In one aspect, there is provided a method of denoising one or more inspection images comprising a plurality of pixels, comprising: receiving an inspection image generated by an inspection system configured to inspect one or more containers, the inspection image being corrupted by a Poisson-Gaussian noise and a variance of the noise being non-constant in the plurality of pixels, and denoising the received inspection image by applying, to the inspection image, a variance-stabilizing transformation for transforming the variance of the noise into a constant variance in the plurality of pixels, wherein the variance-stabilizing transformation is based on a descriptor associated with the angular divergence of the inspection radiation and the Poisson-Gaussian noise.

    DETERMINATION OF A DEGREE OF HOMOGENEITY IN IMAGES

    公开(公告)号:US20170249530A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-31

    申请号:US15509354

    申请日:2015-09-09

    IPC分类号: G06K9/46 G06K9/62 G06K9/50

    摘要: In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a method for determining a degree of homogeneity in one or more inspection images of cargo in one or more containers, comprising: determining whether a zone of interest in one or more processed inspection images comprises one or more patterns, wherein the one or more processed inspection images are processed from one or more inspection images generated by an inspection system configured to inspect the one or more containers; and in the event that one or more patterns is determined and that a variation in the determined one or more patterns is identified, classifying the one or more inspection images as having a degree of homogeneity below a predetermined homogeneity threshold.

    Vehicle cabin inspection system and method

    公开(公告)号:US10900911B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-26

    申请号:US15769928

    申请日:2016-10-21

    摘要: An inspection system (100) having: ⋅ a source (101) configured to generate inspection radiation (40); ⋅ a collimator (103) configured to collimate the inspection radiation into an inspection beam (41) configured to irradiate a section of a vehicle (20); ⋅ a filter (102) located between the source and the collimator, the filter having at least a cargo configuration and an attenuation configuration; and ⋅ a controller (104) configured to control the configuration of the filter, such that the filter is in the cargo configuration when the inspection beam irradiates a container (23), and in the attenuation configuration when the inspection beam irradiates a cabin (21).