Patents by Inventor GERROD E. ANDRESEN

GERROD E. ANDRESEN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Image processing of apparatus condition
    Patent number: 8824731
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of continually monitoring and detecting in real-time a condition of an apparatus is detailed. In one step, an apparatus is continually monitored in real-time using continual real-time images of the apparatus taken by at least one camera. In another step, the continual real-time images of the apparatus from the at least one camera are communicated to at least one computer processing unit. In still another step, the continual real-time images of the apparatus are processed using at least one software program embedded in the at least one computer processing unit in order to monitor and detect in real-time a condition of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Comapny
    Inventors: Jeanne C. Maggiore, Gerrod E. Andresen
  • IMAGE PROCESSING OF APPARATUS CONDITION
    Publication number: 20090110289
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of continually monitoring and detecting in real-time a condition of an apparatus is detailed. In one step, an apparatus is continually monitored in real-time using continual real-time images of the apparatus taken by at least one camera. In another step, the continual real-time images of the apparatus from the at least one camera are communicated to at least one computer processing unit. In still another step, the continual real-time images of the apparatus are processed using at least one software program embedded in the at least one computer processing unit in order to monitor and detect in real-time a condition, of the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: JEANNE C. MAGGIORE, GERROD E. ANDRESEN