US Patent 10152641 Artificial intelligence based vehicle dashboard analysis

A portable computing device equipped with an image capture device captures an image of a vehicle dashboard of a vehicle. Then, the portable computing device identifies the location of one or more components of the vehicle dashboard in the captured image. Based on the location of the one or more components, the portable computing device segments the captured image to obtain an image of each of the one or more components. Further, the portable computing device processes the images of the one or more components using one or more machine learning models to determine a reading associated with each of the one or more components. An accuracy of the readings is verified and responsively, the portable computing device inputs the readings in respective data fields of an electronic form. The readings associated with the one or more components of the vehicle dashboard represent data associated with the vehicle.