ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,491, issued on March 24, was assigned to IDIS Co. LTD. (Daejeon-si, South Korea).
"Railway disaster monitoring system" was invented by Jun Hyeok Heo (Seoul, South Korea) and Dong Hyeong Seo (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a technique for a railway disaster monitoring system for monitoring a foreign matter on a railway, which includes a camera and an image processing unit that receives a railway image captured by the camera. The image processing unit includes a segmented image acquisition unit that obtains a plurality of segmented images including a rail from the railway image received from the camera ...