Induced nuclear reactions: processes – systems – and elements – Testing – sensing – measuring – or detecting a fission reactor... – Optics
Patent
1997-10-28
1999-03-23
Jordan, Charles T.
Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements
Testing, sensing, measuring, or detecting a fission reactor...
Optics
376245, 376259, G21C 1700
Patent
active
058870415
ABSTRACT:
An automated system for identifying nuclear power plant components includes a camera which provides an input signal from an image of the nuclear power plant components. A digitizer generates a digitized image of the nuclear power plant components from the input signal. A workstation locator routine locates the component identifier of the nuclear power plant components from pixel elements of the digitized image and a workstation determining routine determines the component identifier. The determining routine includes plural recognizer routines each having an output providing an intermediate recognition of the component identifier, and a combining routine combining the outputs of the recognizer routines to recognize the component identifier. Each of the outputs includes an intermediate identifier and a corresponding confidence value.
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Cooney Barry F.
Haley Paul H.
Hughes Ellen K.
Schweizer Philipp F.
Seidel Jean A.
Jordan Charles T.
Lattig M. J.
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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