Patent ID: 11914362
Assignee: TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. A navigation system for an aircraft, the navigation system comprising:
a first camera configured to capture a first image of a portion of an environment that surrounds the aircraft and a second camera to simultaneously capture a second image of the portion of the environment, the first camera at a first mounting location and the second camera at a second mounting location offset from the first mounting location;
a processing component coupled to the first camera and the second camera, the processing component configured to:
receive the first image and the second image;
identify an object that appears in both the first image and the second image;
determine, for each camera, a distance from the camera to the object and an angle of the camera relative to the object; and
determine a course on which the aircraft is to proceed based on the distances and angles; and

a remote control flight system configured to:
receive the course of the aircraft from the processing component; and
provide at least one command to cause the aircraft to proceed along the determined course.