Patent ID: 11941840
Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 14:
15. A system for tracking a three-dimensional location and orientation of a fiducial marker across two or more fields-of-view, the system comprising:
a wide field-of-view camera configured to acquire a first image of a workspace in which the fiducial marker is disposed
a control system configured to determine the three-dimensional location and orientation of the fiducial marker within the workspace based on the first image of the workspace in which the fiducial marker is disposed;
a narrow field-of-view camera configured to acquire a second image of a second space, different from the workspace, where the second space is a portion of the workspace; and
a first pan-tilt unit coupled to the narrow field-of-view camera configured to controllably adjust a first pan angle and a first tilt angle of the narrow field-of-view camera to capture different areas of the workspace,
wherein the control system calculates first pan and tilt information for the narrow field-of-view camera to move a field-of-view of the narrow field-of-view camera using the first pan-tilt unit to acquire a fiducial marker image,
wherein the control system is configured to determine the three-dimensional location and orientation of the fiducial marker within the second space based on the fiducial marker image.