Automatic pan/tilt pointing device, luminaire follow-spot, and 6DOF 3D position/orientation calculation information

摘要

A system and method for automatically tracking objects of interest and aiming or pointing a device capable of pan/tilt movement at the objects as they move in real-time. The system also provides the capability to gather, in real-time or non-real time, information to calculate the position and orientation in three dimensions of the aiming or pointing device. The position and orientation information is characterized by three positional coordinates (x,y,z) and three angular orientation coordinates (Theta, Gamma, and Phi) for a total of six degrees of freedom or 6DOF.