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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2016
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);
Andrew J. Jankevics, Westford, MA (US);
Cameron D. Dryden, West Roxbury, MA (US);
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Falls Church, VA (US);
Abstract
An exemplary apparatus determines the dimensions of a package while being moved by a transport through a scanning zone. Sensors with different respective fields of view are disposed about a scanning zone and generate corresponding frames of 3-D images where some of the points represent the transport and package. A computing apparatus translates the points in the images into a transport coordinate system with a common point of origin on the transport so that the package does not appear to be in motion from frame to frame. The computing apparatus merges the translated points in different frames into a combined point cloud image and deletes points representing the transport resulting in a final point cloud image of the package. The computing apparatus determines the dimensions of the package based on the location of points representing the package in the final point cloud image.