Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Unmanned aircraft, information processing method, and recording medium
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Application No.: US16511518Application Date: 2019-07-15
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Publication No.: US10945070B2Publication Date: 2021-03-09
- Inventor: Stephen William John , Kazunobu Konishi , Katsuhiko Asai , Kazuo Inoue
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JPJP2018-135175 20180718
- Main IPC: H04R3/00
- IPC: H04R3/00 ; H04R1/40 ; H04R29/00 ; H04N5/225 ; B64C39/02 ; G10L25/60 ; G05D1/10 ; B64D47/08

Abstract:
An unmanned aircraft includes: a sensor that includes at least a microphone that generates sound data; and a processor. The processor determines the quality of a target sound by use of the sound data generated by the microphone, identifies a sound source direction from the unmanned aircraft to the sound source of the target sound by use of data generated by the sensor, and controls an unmanned aircraft state that is a state of the unmanned aircraft such that a direction of a sound pickup area is aligned with the sound source direction, in accordance with the determined quality. The sound pickup area is a range in which sound pickup quality of the microphone is higher than that of another area.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200084540A1 UNMANNED AIRCRAFT, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Public/Granted day:2020-03-12
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