An optical device such as a telescope may be oriented to view a subject. In one embodiment, an image capture device may be coupled to the optical device, and used to generate image data of a reference subject. The image data may be used to ascertain a first orientation of the optical device. A second orientation of the optical device, at which the subject is viewable using the optical device, may be ascertained. A rotation of the optical device needed to reorient the optical device from the first orientation to the second orientation may be calculated. Instructions may be outputted to the user, indicating how the user can apply the rotation to the optical device.

In some examples, a device may receive, from a first camera, a plurality of images of an airspace corresponding to an area of operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The device may detect, based on the plurality of images from the first camera, a candidate object approaching or within the airspace. Based on detecting the candidate object, the device may control a second camera to direct a field of view of the second camera toward the candidate object. Further, based on images from the second camera captured at a first location and images from at least one other camera captured at a second location, the candidate object may be determined to be an object of interest. In addition, at least one action may be taken based on determining that the candidate object is the object of interest.

An image-stream windowing method includes capturing, with a camera located at a fixed position and having a fixed field of view, a high-resolution image stream of an object that moves during said capturing. The high-resolution image stream includes a sequence of high-resolution frames. The method also includes determining, for each high-resolution frame of the sequence of high-resolution frames, a respective window, of a sequence of windows corresponding to the sequence of high-resolution frames, that encloses the object within said each high-resolution frame. The size and location of the respective window are determined based at least on the fixed position, the fixed field of view, and a position of the object. The method also includes generating a low-resolution image stream from the high-resolution image stream by cropping said each high-resolution frame with its respective window.

Techniques for improving the quality of images captured by a remote sensing overhead platform such as a satellite. Sensor shifting is employed in an open-loop fashion to compensate for relative motion of the remote sensing overhead platform to the Earth. Control signals are generated for the sensor shift mechanism by an orbital motion compensation calculation that uses the predicted ephemeris (including orbit dynamics) and image geometry (overhead platform to target). Optionally, the calculation may use attitude and rate errors that are determined from on-board sensors.

There is provided an image processing apparatus. A determination unit determines a movement direction of an object. A setting unit sets, within a shooting range, a plurality of processing areas that are arranged in a different direction from the movement direction. A selection unit selects a tracking point in each processing area of a predetermined shot image. A tracking unit tracks, inside each processing area, the tracking point across one or more shot images that are shot after the predetermined shot image.

A method includes one or more processors of a payload releasably coupled to a carrier detecting a deviation of a target from an expected target position within an image captured by an image sensor of the payload, and generating one or more control signals for the carrier based at least in part on the detected deviation of the target. The one or more control signals cause the carrier to change a pose of the payload so as to reduce the detected deviation in a subsequent image captured by the image sensor.

A panoramic video processing method, a panoramic video processing device and a panoramic video system are provided. The panoramic video processing method includes the following steps. A plurality of shooting ranges of a plurality of cameras and a field of view (FOV) are received. An amount of stitches of a plurality of original images is calculated according to the shooting ranges and the field of view. An amount of a plurality of adjacent parts of the original images is corresponding to the amount of stitches. The adjacent parts of the original images are stitched to obtain a plurality of partial panoramic images.

The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method for targeting missiles, to a corresponding computer program, to a corresponding computer-readable medium and to a corresponding data processing device, as well as to a missile.

A control device mounted in a first mobile body that includes a camera and an antenna includes: the camera configured to operate such that a direction of an optical axis of the camera and an oriented direction of the antenna are linked to each other; an identification unit configured to identify a second mobile body through image recognition from a captured image captured by the camera operating; and an antenna control unit configured to control the oriented direction of the antenna such that a position of the identified second mobile body in the captured image is a predetermined position.

The invention concerns a device (1) for locating a target, comprising: a camera (2) that can be oriented in an orientation in view of the target so that the camera acquires an image of the target, and an orientation in view of a star so that the camera acquires at least one image of the star, an inertial unit (4) configured to calculate position and orientation data of the camera (2), a resetting module (6) configured to a apply stellar resetting to the data on the basis of the image of the star, in order to produce reset data, a location module (8) configured to estimate a position of the target (T) from the image of the target (T) and the reset data, a communication interface for communicating with an operator station, the camera (2) passing from one orientation to the other in response to the reception, by the interface, of a command sent by the operator station.