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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
May. 23, 2016
Rosemount Aerospace Inc., Burnsville, MN (US);
Travis W. Fleck, Farmington, MN (US);
Gerald L. Brown, Savage, MN (US);
ROSEMOUNT AEROSPACE INC., Burnsville, MN (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and associated methods relate to aligning a taxi-assist camera such that each image frame of real-time video that the camera generates has a standard presentation format. The taxi-assist camera is configured to be mounted on an aircraft and oriented such that each image frame includes both a specific feature of the aircraft and of nearby objects external to the aircraft. The specific feature of the aircraft is detected and a location within the image frame of the specific feature is determined. The determined location within the image frame is compared with a reference location. A transformation operator is generated to transform the image frame such that the specific feature of the aircraft will be located within the image at a location corresponding to the reference location. The transformation operator is then applied to each of the image frames of the real-time video that the camera generates.