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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2003
Applicant:
Roy T. Hashimoto, Redwood City, CA (US);
Inventor:
Roy T. Hashimoto, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Shoestring Research, LLC, Redwood City, CO (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Novel fiducial designs that are based on a plane circle are Disclosed. These fiducial designs can provide five or six degree of freedom poses with a single fiducial using efficient closed form solutions. A novel pose estimation method is used to select the appropriate solution from the multiple solutions obtained, given certain application assumptions, is also disclosed.