MUMBAI, India, Sept. 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202531026941 A) filed by Tata Steel Limited on March 24, 2025, for A Method And A System For Detecting Defects In A Steel Billet.
Inventors include Arup Mallick; E Zachariah Chacko; Mrityunjay Kumar Singh; Biswajit Ghosh; Sudip Mondal; Hari Babu; Rajeev Ranjan; and Satish Kumar Tiwari.
The application for the patent was published on September 25, 2026, under issue no. 39/2026.
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for detecting defects in a steel billet. The method includes receiving at least one of a cross-section image and a perspective image, of a steel billet, from a mobile imaging unit, during casting of the steel billet. The method may further include determining a diagonal difference value corresponding to the steel billet, based on a first distance calculated and a second distance of the cross-section image. The method may further include determining a bulging length corresponding to the steel billet, based on a number of pixels and a pixel per matrix value corresponding to the pixel matrix of the perspective image. The method may further include detecting at least one of, a diagonal defect or a bulging defect in the steel billet based on the diagonal difference value and the bulging length, respectively. [Fig. 1]
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