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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:
Nov. 30, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alfred M Bruckstein, Haifa, IL;
Robert J Holt, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Thomas S Huang, Urbana, IL (US);
Arun Narayan Netravali, Westfield, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64F / ; B64D / ; G01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3561521 ; 340955 ; 340982 ; 356138 ; 3561412 ;
Abstract
Pose estimation of a camera is facilitated by including in the scene a space fiducial, an object that has the property that its appearance as viewed by the camera uniquely determines the direction from which it is viewed.