Abstract: A method and apparatus for the inspection of a hostile environment includes a sensorized device carrying a plurality of image sensors positioned with different orientations, so as to detect image data of the hostile environment; a support adapted to support the sensorized device in the hostile environment; a processor of the image data generating a spherical and/or three-dimensional image based on the image data; and a remote display device adapted to be positioned outside the hostile environment and in communication with at least the processor of the image data, the plurality of sensors detecting contemporaneous image data of at least 60% of 4? steradians of the hostile environment, the apparatus being adapted for a hostile environment with temperatures and/or atmospheric contaminants harmful or dangerous for human beings.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the inspection of a hostile environment includes a sensorized device carrying a plurality of image sensors positioned with different orientations, so as to detect image data of the hostile environment; a support adapted to support the sensorized device in the hostile environment; a processor of the image data generating a spherical and/or three-dimensional image based on the image data; and a remote display device adapted to be positioned outside the hostile environment and in communication with at least the processor of the image data, the plurality of sensors detecting contemporaneous image data of at least 60% of 4? steradians of the hostile environment, the apparatus being adapted for a hostile environment with temperatures and/or atmospheric contaminants harmful or dangerous for human beings.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the inspection of a hostile environment includes a sensorized device carrying a plurality of image sensors positioned with different orientations, so as to detect image data of the hostile environment; a support adapted to support the sensorized device in the hostile environment; a processor of the image data generating a spherical and/or three-dimensional image based on the image data; and a remote display device with respect to the sensorized device adapted to be positioned outside the hostile environment and in communication with at least the processor of the image data, the apparatus being adapted for a hostile environment with temperatures and/or atmospheric contaminants harmful or dangerous for human beings, and the plurality of sensors detecting contemporaneous image data of at least 60% of 4? steradians of the hostile environment.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the inspection of a hostile environment includes a sensorized device carrying a plurality of image sensors positioned with different orientations, so as to detect image data of the hostile environment; a support adapted to support the sensorized device in the hostile environment; a processor of the image data generating a spherical and/or three-dimensional image based on the image data; and a remote display device with respect to the sensorized device adapted to be positioned outside the hostile environment and in communication with at least the processor of the image data, the apparatus being adapted for a hostile environment with temperatures and/or atmospheric contaminants harmful or dangerous for human beings, and the plurality of sensors detecting contemporaneous image data of at least 60% of 4? steradians of the hostile environment.

Abstract: A method to detect and to determine geometrical, dimensional and positional features of products (P) transported by a continuous conveyor (2), particularly of raw, roughly shaped, roughed or half-finished steel products, moving forwards with a transport speed lower or equal to a maximum transport speed (V), comprising the steps consisting of: acquiring (100), through at least an image acquisition device (3) placed crosswise to the forwarding direction (F) of a continuous conveyor and at a distance from it, at least a first series of successive images showing a same area across which runs the continuous conveyor (2), on which rests at least a product (P); identifying (101) in the first image series an initial image including the head end of the product (P) considered in respect to the forwarding direction (F); acquiring (102), through the image acquisition device (3), at least a second series of successive images showing the product moving forward along the forwarding direction (F), with an acquisition frequen