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 14:
15. An object tracking system that comprises:
a wide-angle lens camera mounted on a mounting structure and configured to produce 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 produce a first telephoto image and a second telephoto image;
a computer system configured to:
receive: the first wide-angle image, the second wide-angle image, the first telephoto image, and the second telephoto image;
determine whether an object is identifiably present within the first wide-angle image;
determine whether the object is identifiably present within the first telephoto image;
generate commands to move the mounting structure based upon a determination that the object is identifiably present in only one of the first telephoto image or the first 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;
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; and

a movement system configured to move the mounting structure based upon commands from the computer system.