A wide-area motion imaging system provides 360° persistent surveillance with a camera array that is small, light-weight, and operates at low power. The camera array is mounted on a tethered drone, which can hover at heights of up to 400′, and includes small imagers fitted with lenses of different fixed focal lengths. The tether provides power, communication, and a data link from the camera array to a ground processing server that receives, processes and stores the imagery. The server also collects absolute and relative position data from a global positioning system (GPS) receiver and an inertial measurement unit (IMU) carried by the drone. The server uses this position data to correct the rolling shutter effect and to stabilize and georectify the final images, which can be stitched together and shown to a user live or in playback via a separate user interface.


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    Titel :

    Wide-area motion imaging systems and methods


    Beteiligte:
    FANG CINDY Y (Autor:in) / ROSS WILLIAM D (Autor:in) / WHITE LAUREN L (Autor:in) / BARI JOSEPH (Autor:in) / CASON WILLIAM (Autor:in) / JOHNSON DONALD (Autor:in) / BOWEN CHRISTOPHER (Autor:in) / BOJANOWSKI KYLE (Autor:in) / DYE VICTORIA (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2023-05-30


    Medientyp :

    Patent


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Klassifikation :

    IPC:    G05D SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES , Systeme zum Steuern oder Regeln nichtelektrischer veränderlicher Größen / B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge / B64U / G06T Bilddatenverarbeitung oder Bilddatenerzeugung allgemein , IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL / G06V



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