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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2019
Applicant:
Bell Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Inventors:
Maurice D. Griffin, San Antonio, TX (US);
Aaron M. Hitchcock, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Assignee:
BELL TEXTRON INC., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G08G 5/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0094 (2013.01); G05D 1/102 (2013.01); G06K 9/0063 (2013.01); G08G 5/0047 (2013.01);
Abstract
One embodiment is a navigation system for an aircraft including a positioning system to generate information related to a position of the aircraft, a group of cameras mounted to a body of the aircraft, each camera of the group of cameras to simultaneously capture images of a portion of an environment that surrounds the aircraft, and a processing component coupled to the positioning system and the group of cameras, the processing component to determine a current position of the aircraft based on the information related to the position of the aircraft and the images.