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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2007
Scott Lea, Renton, WA (US);
Gary E. Georgeson, Federal Way, WA (US);
James Troy, Issaquah, WA (US);
Marc Matsen, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey Hansen, Renton, WA (US);
Charles Richards, Kent, WA (US);
Matthew W. Smith, Puyallup, WA (US);
Scott Lea, Renton, WA (US);
Gary E. Georgeson, Federal Way, WA (US);
James Troy, Issaquah, WA (US);
Marc Matsen, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey Hansen, Renton, WA (US);
Charles Richards, Kent, WA (US);
Matthew W. Smith, Puyallup, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A local positioning system which includes a video camera, a computer communicating with the video camera and a target object sighted by the video camera and having a target object coordinate system. The computer is adapted to define a relative position and orientation of the video camera with respect to the target object, determine a position and orientation of the video camera in the target object coordinate system, and determine the position of a point of interest in the target object coordinate system. The system can also be used to aim the camera at a previously recorded point of interest on the target object. Contact with, or close proximity to, the target object is not required. A local positioning method is also disclosed.