公开(公告)号：US20170297681A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-19

申请号：US15491466

申请日：2017-04-19

Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED

Inventor： Moyuru YAMADA ,  Yoshiro HADA

IPC: B64C25/04 ,  B64C27/08 ,  B64D47/08 ,  B64C25/34 ,  B64C25/32

CPC classification number: B64D47/08 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2025/325 ,  B64C2201/027 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/18

Abstract: A flying machine includes a flying machine body including a rotor blade; a frame including a frame body supporting the flying machine body, and a pressing section that is pressed against a target object at least at two locations separated along a direction orthogonal to a width direction of the frame body; and a detector fixed to the frame, and having a detection direction that is a direction orthogonal to a direction joining the two locations together and facing toward the target object.

公开(公告)号：US20170285640A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-05

申请号：US15458921

申请日：2017-03-14

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Inventor： NAOYUKI HARADA

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  G01S19/24 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G05B19/048

CPC classification number: B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  B64C2201/145 ,  G01S19/24 ,  G05B19/048 ,  G05B2219/25062 ,  G05D1/104

Abstract: An autonomous moving machine system continuously maintaining moving machines thereof at higher reliability is provided. Each moving machine measures a self-location thereof with a sensor thereof, and autonomously moves to a target location by controlling a mover. Operations of the moving machine includes acquiring sensor information, estimating the self-location in accordance with the sensor information, calculating the reliability of the self-location, transmitting the reliability to the other moving machine. Operations of a particular moving machine further includes recording history information that associates the reliability, the self-location, and an identifier identifying each of the moving machines, selecting a moving machine to restore the reliability in accordance with the history information and moving the selected moving machine to a location where the reliability of the selected moving machine increases.

公开(公告)号：US20170277180A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-28

申请号：US15471643

申请日：2017-03-28

Applicant: BAER RESEARCH COMPANY

Inventor： Wayne Graf Baer ,  Timothy James Nash

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  G01S19/13 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G01C21/18 ,  G01S17/89 ,  B64C39/02

CPC classification number: G05D1/0038 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G01C11/00 ,  G01S17/023 ,  G01S17/10 ,  G01S17/933 ,  G01S19/13 ,  G01S19/47 ,  G05D1/0016

Abstract: A system may include an unmanned surveyor and a controller for the surveyor. The controller may include a headset. The surveyor includes a vehicle for moving within an environment and a camera for capturing video or images of the environment. The surveyor identifies points within the environment, and positions of those points (e.g., latitude, longitude, elevation). The surveyor may calculate spatial dimensions of virtual lines and/or shapes superimposed within the real-world environment. The controller may control the surveyor. The surveyor may be responsive to a controller headset that detects movement. The controller may display video or images captured by the surveyor, and may provide to a user an immersive first-person perspective of the environment. The user may utilize the controller to superimpose virtual lines and shapes onto the environment. These superimposed lines and shapes may trace real-world objects, enabling the user to remotely evaluate features of the real-world objects.

公开(公告)号：US20170269592A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-21

申请号：US15462557

申请日：2017-03-17

Applicant: Oceaneering International, Inc.

Inventor： David Wesley Weaver

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  G01N21/952 ,  H04N7/18 ,  G05D1/08 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G01N21/88 ,  B64C39/02

CPC classification number: G05D1/0038 ,  B64C27/08 ,  B64C27/20 ,  B64C39/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/021 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2201/12 ,  B64C2201/123 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  B64C2201/18 ,  G01N21/8803 ,  G01N21/9515 ,  G01N21/952 ,  G01N2201/101 ,  G05D1/0094 ,  G05D1/0808 ,  G06K9/0063 ,  G06K2209/19 ,  H04N7/183

Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), comprising one or more motors, one or more non-destructive testing data collectors, and an electro-magnet, may be used to inspect a structure to which it can magnetically attach by having the UAV approach the structure and activating the electro-magnet when the UAV is a predetermined distance to the structure to be inspected. Once maneuvered close enough to the structure to allow the electro-magnet to magnetically attach to the structure to be inspected, the UAV may be secured against the structure using the electro-magnet proximate an area to be inspected such that the non-destructive testing data collector is disposed proximate the area to be inspected. Data may then be collected using the non-destructive testing data collector.

公开(公告)号：US20170264907A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-14

申请号：US15415428

申请日：2017-01-25

Applicant: PARROT DRONES

Inventor： Aurelien Barre ,  Jerome Bouvard ,  Henri Seydoux

IPC: H04N19/44 ,  H04N7/18 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64D47/08 ,  H04N19/46 ,  G05D1/00

CPC classification number: H04N19/44 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G05D1/0011 ,  H04N7/183 ,  H04N7/185 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N21/2187 ,  H04N21/23614 ,  H04N21/42202 ,  H04N21/4223 ,  H04N21/85406

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of dynamically encoding flight data in a video, implemented in a drone, the drone comprising a video sensor and attitude sensors and/or altitude sensors. This method comprises, for successive images captured, a step of capturing flight data (E22) of the drone from the attitude sensors and/or the altitude sensors and a step of encoding the captured image (E23). It further includes a step of storing (E24), in a data container, the encoded image, a step of adding (E25) to the encoded image, in the data container, all or part of the flight data captured, and a step of storing (E26) said data container in a memory of the drone (10), and/or of transmission (E27), by the drone (10), of said data container to a remote device (16). The encoding of the video images comprises an MPEG-4 encoding (ISO/IEC 14496), and the data container is a track according to MPEG-4 Part 12, multiplexing according to a common clock said encoded image and said associated flight data.

公开(公告)号：US09758246B1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-12

申请号：US14989738

申请日：2016-01-06

Applicant: GOPRO, INC.

Inventor： Pablo Lema ,  Shu Ching Ip

IPC: B64C39/02 ,  G05D1/10 ,  G05D1/00

CPC classification number: G05D1/0016 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/024 ,  B64C2201/027 ,  B64C2201/123 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G05D1/0033 ,  G05D1/0094 ,  G05D1/101 ,  G06K9/00335 ,  G06K9/0063 ,  G06K9/00718 ,  G06K2009/00738

Abstract: A first pattern associated with a performer may be recognized based upon visual information. A sensor carried by an unmanned aerial vehicle may be configured to generate output signals conveying the visual information. A first distance may be determined between the first pattern and the unmanned aerial vehicle. A second pattern associated with a performee may be recognized based upon the visual information. A second distance may be determined between the second pattern and the unmanned aerial vehicle. Flight control may be adjusted based upon the first distance and the second distance. A flight control subsystem may be configured to provide the flight control for the unmanned aerial vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US20170255206A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-07

申请号：US15213371

申请日：2016-07-18

Applicant: Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Tsung-Sheng CHEN ,  Shang-Yuan YUAN

IPC: G05D1/10 ,  H04W4/02 ,  G05D1/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G01S19/14 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04W4/00

CPC classification number: G05D1/104 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  G01S11/06 ,  G01S19/14 ,  G01S19/48 ,  G05D1/0011 ,  G08G5/0008 ,  G08G5/0021 ,  G08G5/0052 ,  G08G5/0069 ,  G08G5/0078 ,  G08G5/045 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04W4/023 ,  H04W4/026 ,  H04W4/027 ,  H04W4/80

Abstract: An anti-collision system for an UAV and a method thereof are provided. The anti-collision system for an UAV includes: a first aerial vehicle. The first aerial vehicle includes: a wireless transmission module and a processor. The wireless transmission module is used for transmitting a first signal of the first aerial vehicle and for receiving a second signal from a second aerial vehicle; the processor is used for calculating a signal strength of the second signal, for obtaining a spacing distance between the second aerial vehicle and the first aerial vehicle, to determine if the spacing distance is less than a distance threshold value; wherein when the spacing distance is less than the distance threshold value, the processor adjusts a flight status of the first aerial vehicle. Thus the present invention can avoid the collisions between the first aerial vehicle and the second aerial vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US20170247110A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-31

申请号：US15595758

申请日：2017-05-15

Applicant: Dana Robert CHAPPELL

Inventor： Dana Robert CHAPPELL

IPC: B64C39/02 ,  B64D47/08 ,  B64D1/10

CPC classification number: B64C39/024 ,  B60Q5/00 ,  B64C27/52 ,  B64C2201/024 ,  B64C2201/027 ,  B64C2201/042 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2201/12 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/128 ,  B64D1/10 ,  B64D47/06 ,  B64D47/08 ,  B64D2211/00 ,  Y02T50/55

Abstract: Embodiments of unmanned aerial systems are disclosed, which may comprise: a frame; a landing member attached to the frame; a propulsion system support member attached to the frame; a propulsion system attached to the propulsion system support member; a shroud having a paraboloid surface attached to the frame; a external equipment carrier attached to the frame; a sensor system; a sealed equipment container attached to the frame and located beneath the shroud; an electronic control system within the sealed equipment container and configured to control the propulsion system and the sensor system; and a power source within the sealed equipment container and configured to power the electronic control system.

公开(公告)号：US20170247098A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-31

申请号：US15439892

申请日：2017-02-22

Applicant: PARROT DRONES

Inventor： Thierry SANLAVILLE ,  Maxime DUCLOUX ,  Flavien MORRA

IPC: B64C1/06 ,  B64C25/20 ,  B64C25/52 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64C27/08

CPC classification number: B64C1/063 ,  B64C25/20 ,  B64C25/52 ,  B64C27/08 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/027 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  B64C2201/20

Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of a rotary-wing drone that includes a drone body with two front linking arms and two rear linking arms extending from the drone body with a propulsion unit located on a distal end of the linking arms. The points of fixation of the front linking arms and the points of fixation of the rear linking arms are located at different respective heights with respect to the horizontal median plane of the drone body. The two front linking arms of the drone may form a first angle of inclination with respect to the horizontal median plane of the drone body and the two rear linking arms may form a second angle of inclination. Additionally, the linking arms of the drone may further be adapted to be folded over along the drone body.

公开(公告)号：US20170242432A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-24

申请号：US15051709

申请日：2016-02-24

Applicant: Dronomy Ltd.

Inventor： Guy Raz ,  Ori Aphek

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N5/44 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  B64C39/02

CPC classification number: G05D1/0038 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/027 ,  B64C2201/123 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/14 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  G05D1/0016 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  G06K9/00355 ,  G06K9/0063 ,  H04M1/72533 ,  H04N5/23293 ,  H04N7/185

Abstract: Apparatus for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that includes an imaging device is described. The apparatus includes a touch screen and a processor, configured to (i) receive a gesture that is performed, on the touch screen, with respect to a first image acquired by the imaging device, the gesture indicating a requested change with respect to the first image, (ii) communicate, to the UAV, a first control signal that causes the UAV to begin executing a flying maneuver that is suggested by the gesture, (iii) identify a plurality of features in a subsequent image acquired by the imaging device, (iv) ascertain that respective positions of the features indicate that the flying maneuver has effected the requested change, and (v) in response to the ascertaining, communicate, to the UAV, a subsequent control signal that causes the UAV to stop execution of the flying maneuver. Other embodiments are also described.