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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2006
Kartik B. Ariyur, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Saad J. Bedros, West St. Paul, MN (US);
Dennis W. Strelow, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vassilios Morellas, Plymouth, MN (US);
Kartik B. Ariyur, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Saad J. Bedros, West St. Paul, MN (US);
Dennis W. Strelow, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vassilios Morellas, Plymouth, MN (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system for autonomous object tracking with static camera arrangements. Each camera arrangement may minimally have a pan-tilt-zoom camera and a range or depth sensor. Imaging may provide coordinates and depth information of a tracked object. Measurements of an image centroid position and width may be obtained with processing. Maintaining an image at the center of a camera screen may be attained at a pixel width of the image. Estimation and prediction of object size and position may be processed for providing pan, tilt and zoom rates for the camera. Pan, tilt and zoom latency may be accounted for in the system. There may be a number of camera arrangements where tracking of the object may be handed off by one camera arrangement to another.