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 8:
9. A method of operating an object tracking system, the method comprising:
producing, by a wide-angle lens camera of a stereo camera assembly, a first wide-angle image and a second wide-angle image;
producing, by a telephoto lens camera of the stereo camera assembly, a first telephoto image and a second telephoto image, wherein the telephoto lens camera is mounted on a mounting structure such that a field of view of the telephoto lens camera is at least partially encompassed by a field of view of the wide-angle lens camera;
receiving, by a computer system, the first wide-angle image, the second wide-angle image, the first telephoto image, and the second telephoto image;
performing, by the computer system, a transformation on the first wide-angle image and the first telephoto image to map the first telephoto image to the first wide-angle image;
moving, by the computer system, the mounting structure in response to mapping the first telephoto image to the first wide-angle image
determining, by the computer system, a three-dimensional location of an object using the first telephoto image and the first wide-angle image; and
tracking, by the computer system, the object based upon the second telephoto image, the second wide-angle image, and the three-dimensional location of the object.