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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2012
James Fintan Kelly, Milpitas, CA (US);
Michael Skinner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexander Robert Perry, Santa Monica, CA (US);
John Hendrickson, Chatsworth, CA (US);
Matthew Wang, Mountain View, CA (US);
James Fintan Kelly, Milpitas, CA (US);
Michael Skinner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexander Robert Perry, Santa Monica, CA (US);
John Hendrickson, Chatsworth, CA (US);
Matthew Wang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a method for determining the geographic location of an object, the method comprising retrieving at a vision system a plurality of images from a database, each image related to a respective vantage point, detecting, with the vision system, the object in at least two of the plurality of images, generating a vector in relation to the respective vantage point for each image in which the object was detected, and triangulating, based on the intersection of at least two vectors, the geographic location of the object.