Camera calibration tool
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsNicholas C. Baltz, Ashraf Qadir, Adam J. Royal
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Abstract
A camera calibration tool for calibrating one or more cameras of a mobile machine comprising calibration targets and a net. Each of the calibration targets comprises identifiable indicia. The net is adapted to be coupled to the mobile machine. The net has one or more configurations that define predetermined target locations, with location markers, in a predetermined layout. The calibration targets are positioned respectively at the predetermined target locations in the predetermined layout to calibrate the one or more cameras by use of the calibration targets.
Claims20
A method for calibrating one or more cameras of a mobile machine, comprising:
- providing a plurality of cable clamps;
- positioning a net adapted to be coupled to the mobile machine in a first configuration to define a first predetermined layout and a second configuration to define a second predetermined layout, wherein the net includes one or more lines and a plurality of location markers, wherein the plurality of location markers is coupled via the plurality of cable clamps to the one or more lines;
- configuring and positioning the net in the first configuration that corresponds to the first predetermined layout;
- wherein when the net and the plurality of location markers are in the first configuration, positioning a calibration target at each of the plurality of location markers;
- configuring and positioning the net in the second configuration that corresponds to the second predetermined layout;
- wherein when the net is positioned in the second configuration, positioning one of the plurality of location markers and one of the calibration targets at the same location;
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- calibrating the one or more cameras via the plurality of calibration targets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.