Patent ID: 11945609
Assignee: FALCON EXODYNAMICS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 15:
16. A method for controlling docking with a spacecraft, comprising:
receiving a first pixel stream from a visible image camera;
receiving a second pixel stream from an infrared image camera;
rescaling an image from the first pixel stream from a first resolution to a second resolution;
aligning rescaled pixels of the first pixel stream with infrared pixels of the second pixel stream;
texture processing the rescaled and aligned first pixel stream to generate a first texture map for the first pixel stream;
texture processing the second pixel stream to generate a second texture map for the second pixel stream;
generating first thresholding results for the first pixel stream responsive to the generated first texture map;
generating second thresholding results for the second pixel stream responsive to the generated second texture map;
fusing the first thresholding results for the first pixel stream and the second thresholding results for the second pixel stream to create fused thresholding results;
determining a bus centroid of the spacecraft responsive to the fused thresholding results; and
controlling docking of with the spacecraft responsive to the determined bus centroid.