Patents by Inventor Daniel D. Doyle

Daniel D. Doyle has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Real-time camera tracking system using optical flow feature points
    Patent number: 9696404
    Abstract: A new apparatus and method for tracking a moving object with a moving camera provides a real-time, narrow field-of-view, high resolution and on target image by combining commanded motion with an optical flow algorithm for deriving motion and classifying background. Commanded motion means that movement of the pan, tilt and zoom (PTZ) unit is “commanded” by a computer, instead of being observed by the camera, so that the pan, tilt and zoom parameters are known, as opposed to having to be determined, significantly reducing the computational requirements for tracking a moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Daniel D. Doyle, Alan L. Jennings, Jonathan T. Black