Patent ID: 8116526

Claim:
A method for providing a point-of-interest direction vector to an automated system, the method comprising: (a) providing an imaging sensor mounted in known geometric relation to at least part of the automated system; (b) deriving from said imaging sensor a perspective view; (c) providing a shared reference image of a region at least partially overlapping a field of view of the perspective view, said shared reference image being associated with a defined coordinate system; (d) correlating the perspective view with said shared reference image so as to generate a mapping between said shared reference image and said perspective view; (e) employing said mapping to derive a location of a point-of-interest coordinate from said shared reference image within the perspective view; and (f) providing to the automated system a point-of-interest direction vector indicative of a direction from the at least part of the automated system to the point-of-interest.