Patent ID: 11893740
Assignee: AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES CORPORATION, A SUBSIDIARY OF THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
identifying a first image that is captured at a first time;
identifying a second image that is captured at a second time;
segmenting the first image into a plurality of first image portions, wherein the first and second images are captured by a camera on an aircraft in flight, wherein a variation of the aircraft, the camera, or both between the first image and the second image causes image distortion when comparing the first image as a whole and the second image as a whole;
segmenting the second image into a plurality of second image portions;
determining a phase correlation between one of the plurality of first image portions and a corresponding one of the plurality of second image portions, wherein the phase correlation is due to the image distortion;
comparing one of the plurality of first image portions and a corresponding one of the plurality of second image portions;
determining a difference between the first image and the second image based at least partially upon the comparison between the one of the plurality of first image portions and the corresponding one of the plurality of second image portions;
transforming the first image into a transformed first image based at least partially upon the difference; and
navigating an aircraft based upon the transformed first image.