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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2013
Applicant:
Peter G France, Christchurch, NZ;
Inventor:
Peter G France, Christchurch, NZ;
Assignee:
Trimble Navigation Limited, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G01B 11/14 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2013.01); G01B 11/14 (2013.01); H04N 7/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A video alignment system is described in which the location of a modulated spot in a video scene is estimated with correlation techniques including tracking multiple camera phase shift candidates and normalizing correlation sums with a voting system.