MUMBAI, India, June 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517048812 A) filed by Thales, Meudon, France, on May 20, for 'method for determining, using an optronic system, positions and orientations in a scene, and associated optronic system and vehicle.'
Inventor(s) include Le Meur, Alain; Simon, Alain; Callet, Francois; Devaux, Jean-Clement; Jerot, Pascal; and Beche, Arnaud.
The application for the patent was published on June 6, under issue no. 23/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a method for determining, using an optronic system (18), at least one position and at least one orientation in a scene (10), the scene (10) comprising reference elements (12) of known geographical coordinates, the method comprising an initialization phase that comprises the following steps: - acquiring, using an omnidirectional imager, a panoramic datum in relation to the scene (10), - displaying the panoramic datum on a display element, - collecting reference data for at least three reference elements (12) in the scene (10), and - determining a position and orientation, referred to as close-up position and close-up orientation, of the optronic system (18) on the basis of the reference data stored for the at least three reference elements (12)."
The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 21, 2023, under International application No.PCT/EP2023/082501.
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