Invention Application
- Patent Title: IDENTIFYING CAMERA POSITION OF A UAV IN FLIGHT UTILIZING REAL TIME KINEMATIC SATELLITE NAVIGATION
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Application No.: US15178052Application Date: 2016-06-09
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Publication No.: US20170355458A1Publication Date: 2017-12-14
- Inventor: David Chen , Colleen Kelly Twitty , Blaine Schanfeldt , James J. Johnson , Jacob Federico
- Applicant: Skycatch, Inc.
- Main IPC: B64C39/02
- IPC: B64C39/02 ; H04N5/232 ; G06K9/00 ; G05D1/00 ; G05D1/08

Abstract:
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining a position of a camera affixed to a UAV in flight when the camera captures a digital aerial image. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods utilize real time kinematic satellite navigation techniques to identify a position of a UAV. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods precisely determine the time that a camera captures a digital aerial image together with an attitude of the UAV at the time of capture to calculate a location of a camera at the time of capture. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods can utilize the determined position of the camera together with the captured digital aerial image to generate a three-dimensional representation of a site.
Public/Granted literature
- US10189567B2 Identifying camera position of a UAV in flight utilizing real time kinematic satellite navigation Public/Granted day:2019-01-29
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