Patent ID: 9736368
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G03B,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. An imaging system to assist a user to locate an object that is mobile and located in a plurality of objects, comprising: a mobile first computing device including a housing which holds a processor, a camera, a display to display an image generated by the camera, positioning circuitry to generate positional data including geospatial coordinates of the mobile first computing device including an altitude, a digital compass to generate a pointing direction of the camera, circuitry to determine a pitch position of the camera and a communication circuit, the mobile first computing device is enabled to transmit a message to a second computing device with a request for positional data including an altitude of the second computing device; the second computing device is in a housing attached to the object that is mobile and located in a plurality of objects, the second computing device, which is portable and mobile, includes in the housing a processor, positioning circuitry to generate positional data including geospatial coordinates of the second computing device including an altitude, and a communication circuit; the second computing device is configured to receive the message with the request from the mobile first computing device to provide positional data related to the location of the object; the second computing device is configured to generate an alert that the request from the communication circuit of the mobile first computing device has been received, and to transmit a message with the positional data related to the location of the object to the mobile first computing device; and the processor in the mobile first computing device is configured to apply positional data of the mobile first computing device and the received positional data related to the location of the object to determine a pose of the camera that places the object in the field of vision of the camera and to generate one or more indicators on the display to indicate a change in pitch and a change in direction of the camera from a current pose required to place the camera in the pose that places the object in the field of vision of the camera and to generate an indicator on the display that indicates that the object is in the field of vision and where the object is relative to the plurality of objects.