Patent ID: 11865978
Assignee: AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES CORPORATION, A SUBSIDIARY OF THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  G | IPC B  G

Claim 19:
20. The stereo camera assembly of claim 8, wherein the first telephoto image and the first wide-angle image are an image pair, and the stereo camera assembly further comprises the computer system configured to:
determine a region of interest in the image pair based on a bounding box determined for the object in the image pair;
apply a mask based on the region of interest to the image pair, wherein the mask masks out portions of the image pair outside of the region of interest to form masked images;
perform intensity averaging on masked images to detect a set of pixels having a greatest intensity in the masked images, wherein the set of pixels in the masked images is a set of common pixels in the masked images in which the set of common pixels is assumed to have a same location in both of the masked images; and
determine the three-dimensional location position of the object using the set of common pixels.