US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on May 6 for "Calibration of cameras and scanners on UAV and mobile platforms" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,547, issued on May 6, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Calibration of cameras and scanners on UAV and mobile platforms" was invented by Ayman F. Habib (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Boresight and lever arm calibration of cameras and scanners on UAVs or mobile platforms is performed by optimizing the flight/travel path of the UAV/platform relative to control points or tie points. The flight/travel paths account for the potential bias of boresight angles, lever arm and times delays to produce an accurate estimation of the orientation of these cameras/scanners relative to the GNSS...