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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2015
Bae Systems Plc, London, GB;
James Duncan Revell, Bristol, GB;
Roderick Buchanan, Warton, GB;
BAE Systems plc, London, GB;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for detecting cloud features. The method comprises: obtaining image data (e.g. using a camera), the image data defining a plurality of pixels and, for each pixel, a respective luminance value; defining one or more intervals for the luminance values of the pixels; partitioning the image data into one or more image segments (-), each respective image segment (-) containing pixels having a luminance value in a respective interval; and classifying, as a cloud feature, each image segment (-) containing pixels having luminance value greater than or equal to a threshold luminance value (L).