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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
May. 23, 2018
Applicant:
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Inventors:
Richard C. Vera, Allen, TX (US);
Colin M. Johnston, McKinney, TX (US);
April Danbee Canty, McKinney, TX (US);
Assignee:
RAYTHEON COMPANY, Waltham, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06G 7/80 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23296 (2013.01); G06T 7/248 (2017.01); G06T 7/74 (2017.01); G06T 2207/20021 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for pointing an imaging sensor. In one embodiment, the method includes forming a correlation surface; calculating, from the correlation surface, a first estimated target offset, the first estimated target offset being an estimate of an offset between a view of a target in the first subimage and a view of the target in the second subimage; and adjusting a pointing angle of the imaging sensor according to the first estimated target offset.