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System and method of determining a position of a remote object via one or more images

  • US 9,658,071 B2
  • Filed: 05/19/2015
  • Issued: 05/23/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system, comprising:

  • a position device;

    a processor;

    at least one camera; and

    a memory device, wherein the memory device stores instructions that are executable by the processor;

    wherein the position device;

    receives multiple location signals, via at least one antenna coupled to the position device; and

    determines a first position and a second position, different from the first position, via computing the first position, based on a first location of the at least one antenna and the multiple location signals, and computing the second position, based on a second location of the at least one antenna and the multiple location signals, wherein the second location of the at least one antenna is different from the first location of the at least one antenna;

    wherein the at least one camera;

    acquires a first image, as first machine-readable data, that includes a first remote object image of a remote object and that corresponds to the first position; and

    acquires a second image, as second machine-readable data, that includes a second remote object image of the remote object and that corresponds to the second position; and

    wherein, as the processor executes the instructions, the processor;

    determines, via the first machine-readable data, a first image position of the first remote object image of the remote object included by the first image;

    determines, via the first machine-readable data, a first bearing to the remote object at a remote object position, different from the first position and different from the second position, based on the first image position;

    determines, via the second machine-readable data, a second image position of the second remote object image of the remote object included by the second image;

    determines, via the second machine-readable data, a second bearing to the remote object at the remote object position based on the second image position;

    computes a first rotation, by the first bearing, of a first vector associated with the first position;

    computes a second rotation, by the second bearing, of a second vector associated with the second position;

    computes the remote object position based on the first rotation, by the first bearing, of the first vector and the second rotation, by the second bearing, of the second vector.

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