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 0:
1. A stereo camera assembly that comprises:
a wide-angle lens camera mounted on a mounting structure and configured to take a first wide-angle image and a second wide-angle image;
a telephoto lens camera mounted on the 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 and configured to take a first telephoto image and a second telephoto image; and
a computer system configured to:
receive the first wide-angle image
receive the second wide-angle image;

receive the first telephoto image
receive the second wide-angle image;
perform 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;
move the mounting structure based upon the map of the first telephoto image to the first wide-angle image;
determine a three-dimensional location of an object based upon the first telephoto image and the first wide-angle image; and
track the object based upon the second telephoto image, the second wide-angle image, and the three-dimensional location of the object.