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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2014
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Carl Ryan Kelso, Seattle, WA (US);
Yves Christian Albers Schoenberg, Cambridge, GB;
James Yang, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/08 (2006.01); G05D 1/10 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01); G06K 19/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0808 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01); G05D 1/102 (2013.01); G06K 7/1426 (2013.01); G06K 19/06037 (2013.01); G06K 19/06056 (2013.01); G06K 19/06131 (2013.01); G06K 19/06168 (2013.01); B64C 2201/141 (2013.01); G06K 19/06009 (2013.01); G06K 2019/06243 (2013.01); G06K 2019/06262 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30208 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments of a multi-scale fiducial. A multi-scale fiducial may have three or more scales, where the child fiducials are nested or otherwise linked by a relative position to the parent fiducials. Multi-scale fiducials may facilitate target identification and tracking at varying distances, potentially without the aid of a scale-invariant recognition algorithm. One application of multi-scale fiducials may involve target identification for autonomously controlled aerial vehicles.