Patent Document ID: 20180278847
Application ID: 15468409
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for determining bias in an inertial measurement unit of an image acquisition device comprising: mapping at least one reference point within an image frame into a 3D spherical space based on a lens projection model for the image acquisition device to provide a respective anchor point in 3D space for each reference point; for at least one of said at least one reference points within a given image frame: obtaining an estimate of frame-to-frame motion at said reference point between said given frame and a previously acquired frame; obtaining from said inertial measurement unit a measure of device orientation for an acquisition time of said reference point in said given frame and said previously acquired frame, said measure including a bias component; projecting a corresponding anchor point in 3D space according to a difference in said measure of device orientation in said given frame and said previously acquired frame to provide a 3D vector V m ; projecting a result of said estimated frame-to-frame motion for said point from said given frame into said previously acquired frame into 3D space to provide a 3D vector V e ; providing a cross product V c of said 3D vectors V m and V e , and obtaining an updated bias component value as a function of said cross product V c for a plurality of reference points in one or more image frames.