公开(公告)号：US12170878B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-17

申请号：US17349210

申请日：2021-06-16

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shunsuke Kuhara ,  Stephen William John ,  Kazunobu Konishi ,  Katsuhiko Asai ,  Kazuo Inoue

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  B64U101/00

Abstract: An unmanned moving body includes a directional speaker that outputs sound in an orientation direction and a processor that obtains one or more instances of sensing data. The processor: determines whether or not a second target is present in a vicinity of a first target in accordance with at least one of the one or more instances of sensing data; calculates a positional relationship between the first target and the second target when it is determined that the second target is present; and determines a first position of the unmanned moving body in accordance with the positional relationship and causes the unmanned moving body to move to the first position, the first position being a position that places the first target and the second target within a range over which the sound from the directional speaker reaches at at least a predetermined quality.

公开(公告)号：US11760479B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-19

申请号：US17146944

申请日：2021-01-12

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Kazuo Inoue ,  Kazunobu Konishi ,  Stephen John ,  Katsuhiko Asai ,  Shunsuke Kuhara

IPC: B64C39/02 ,  G08G5/00 ,  B64U30/20 ,  B64U70/80 ,  B64U101/00

CPC classification number: B64C39/024 ,  G08G5/003 ,  B64U30/20 ,  B64U70/80 ,  B64U2101/00 ,  B64U2201/20

Abstract: An unmanned aircraft includes: at least two generators generating forces to fly the unmanned aircraft, each including a rotor blade generating an airflow; a sensor detecting a tilt of the unmanned aircraft; and a processor controlling the generators to control flight of the unmanned aircraft. The processor: obtains an output force adjustment trigger for the generators; obtaining the trigger, causes each generator to individually operate at least until the tilt of the unmanned aircraft detected by the sensor satisfies a predetermined condition; determines a reference value related to an output force of each generator from a value related to the output force of each generator when the tilt of the unmanned aircraft satisfies the predetermined condition and a positional relationship between the generators; and controls the flight of the unmanned aircraft, using the reference values determined.

公开(公告)号：US10945070B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-09

申请号：US16511518

申请日：2019-07-15

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Stephen William John ,  Kazunobu Konishi ,  Katsuhiko Asai ,  Kazuo Inoue

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.

公开(公告)号：US20250071499A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-27

申请号：US18941414

申请日：2024-11-08

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shunsuke KUHARA ,  Stephen William John ,  Kazunobu Konishi ,  Katsuhiko Asai ,  Kazuo Inoue

IPC: H04S7/00 ,  B64U101/00

Abstract: An unmanned moving body includes a directional speaker that outputs sound in an orientation direction and a processor that obtains one or more instances of sensing data. The processor: determines whether or not a second target is present in a vicinity of a first target in accordance with at least one of the one or more instances of sensing data; calculates a positional relationship between the first target and the second target when it is determined that the second target is present; and determines a first position of the unmanned moving body in accordance with the positional relationship and causes the unmanned moving body to move to the first position, the first position being a position that places the first target and the second target within a range over which the sound from the directional speaker reaches at at least a predetermined quality.

公开(公告)号：US11928974B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-12

申请号：US17231679

申请日：2021-04-15

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Stephen William John ,  Kazunobu Konishi ,  Katsuhiko Asai ,  Kazuo Inoue ,  Shunsuke Kuhara

IPC: G08G5/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64U10/13 ,  B64U30/20 ,  B64U101/30

CPC classification number: G08G5/0069 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64U10/13 ,  B64U30/20 ,  B64U2101/30 ,  B64U2201/10

Abstract: An unmanned aircraft includes: a sensor that includes at least a microphone that generates sound data; and a processor. The processor determines quality of a target sound using the sound data generated by the microphone, obtains a positional relationship between the unmanned aircraft and a sound source of the target sound using data generated by the sensor, and controls movement of the unmanned aircraft to control a distance between the unmanned aircraft and the sound source of the target sound, in accordance with the quality of the target sound and the positional relationship.

公开(公告)号：US11325703B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-10

申请号：US16460413

申请日：2019-07-02

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Katsuhiko Asai ,  Kazunobu Konishi ,  Stephen William John ,  Kazuo Inoue

IPC: B64C39/02 ,  G08G5/00 ,  H04W4/021 ,  G05D1/10

Abstract: A control device includes a processor which: obtains first region information indicating a first region; obtains first position information indicating the position of an unmanned aerial vehicle tethered to a tethering device using a tether; and controls the tethering device using the first region information and the first position information to cause the tether to have tension corresponding to a specified distance which is at least one of the shortest distance between a boundary of the first region and the position of the unmanned aerial vehicle and a distance included in a predetermined range from the shortest distance.

公开(公告)号：US10418930B2

公开(公告)日：2019-09-17

申请号：US14743750

申请日：2015-06-18

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Kazuo Inoue

IPC: H02S20/10 ,  H02S20/20 ,  H02S20/21 ,  H02S20/32 ,  H02S30/10 ,  H02S30/20 ,  H02S20/00 ,  H02S10/12 ,  H02S20/30 ,  H02S10/20 ,  H02S10/10 ,  H01L31/05

Abstract: A second panel and a third panel are disposed on both sides of a first panel in the width direction, a fourth panel is disposed at a position symmetrical with the first panel with respect to the second panel and third panel, the respective panels have the same length and are disposed parallel to each other, and a step is provided with a gap between the first panel and the second panel or the third panel, and between the fourth panel and the second panel or the third panel.