A DAMAGE DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD

The present invention provides an apparatus and method to automatically detect vehicle damage which minimizes the time taken to detect damage per vehicle. Preferably, the action of damage detection is also performed with an action of causing the fixing of any detected damage, where appropriate. To this end, the present invention provides a damage detection unit arranged to detect damage on a vehicle. The damage detection unit comprises a receiving unit arranged to receive an image from a camera and a determining unit arranged to determine damage on the vehicle based on the received image. Moreover, the damage detection unit further comprises a storing unit arranged to store information about damage previously determined to be present on the vehicle and a comparing unit arranged to compare the damage determined by the determining unit with the information about previous damage as stored by the storing unit. 本发明提供了一种自动检测车辆损坏的装置和方法，其最小化了检测每辆车的损坏所花费的时间。优选地，在适当的情况下，损坏检测的行为还与修复任何检测到的损坏的行为一起进行。为此目的，本发明提供了损坏检测单元，其被配置