US Patent Issued to BNSF Railway on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for calibrating image capturing modules" (Kansas, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,288, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co.

"Systems and methods for calibrating image capturing modules" was invented by Darrell R. Krueger (Lecompton, Kan.) and Garrett Smitley (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes capturing, by a camera of an image capturing module, a first image of a target. The image capturing module and a drum are attached to a fixture and the target is attached to the drum. The method also includes determining a number of lateral pixels in a lateral pitch distance of the image of the target, determining a lateral object pixel size based on the numbe...