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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2019
Terraclear Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Brent Ronald Frei, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dwight Galen McMaster, Burien, WA (US);
Michael Racine, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jacobus du Preez, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
William David Dimmit, Seattle, WA (US);
Isabelle Butterfield, Bellevue, WA (US);
Clifford Holmgren, Spanaway, WA (US);
Dafydd Daniel Rhys-Jones, Tacoma, WA (US);
Thayne Kollmorgen, Eugene, OR (US);
Vivek Ullal Nayak, Seattle, WA (US);
TERRACLEAR INC., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
An object identification method is disclosed. The method includes obtaining images of a target geographical area and telemetry information of an image-collection vehicle at a time of capture, analyzing each image to identify objects, and determining a position of the objects. The method further includes determining an image capture height, determining a position of the image using the capture height and the telemetry information, performing a transform on the image based on the capture height and the telemetry information, identifying the objects in the transformed image, determining first pixel locations of the objects within the transformed image, performing a reverse transform on the first pixel locations to determine second pixel locations in the image, and determining positions of the objects within the area based on the second pixel locations within the captured image and the determined image position.