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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2005
Christopher R. Wren, Arlington, MA (US);
Ali J. Azarbayejani, Boston, MA (US);
Paul H. Dietz, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Christopher R. Wren, Arlington, MA (US);
Ali J. Azarbayejani, Boston, MA (US);
Paul H. Dietz, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus acquires images of a scene with an omni-directional imager and a pan-tilt-zoom imager. A relationship between pixels in the input image and locations in the scene is expressed in terms of polar coordinates. An event is detected in the input images and the omni-directional pan-tilt-zoom camera is directed at the event in the scene using the relationship expressed in the polar coordinates.
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