公开(公告)号：US09738382B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-22

申请号：US15087825

申请日：2016-03-31

Applicant: PARROT DRONES

Inventor： Nicolas Brulez ,  Arsene Ferrand ,  Henri Seydoux

IPC: B64C39/02 ,  G06T19/20 ,  G06F3/01 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G06T19/00 ,  A63H27/00

CPC classification number: B64C39/024 ,  A63H27/12 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G06F3/012 ,  G06T19/006 ,  G06T19/20

Abstract: The system comprises a drone and a ground station with a console adapted to be directed towards the drone, and virtual reality glasses rendering images taken by a camera of the drone. The system further comprises means for modifying the framing of the images taken by the camera as a function of framing instructions received from the ground station. It further comprises relative heading determination means (302-324) for periodically elaborating an angular difference between the orientation of the glasses and the orientation of the console, and means (316) for elaborating framing instructions for the drone as a function said angular difference. The sudden changes of framing when the user simply turns the console and his whole body, head included, towards the drone to follow it in its displacements, are hence avoided.

公开(公告)号：US20170211933A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-27

申请号：US15416213

申请日：2017-01-26

Applicant: PARROT DRONES

Inventor： Mathieu BABEL ,  Nicolas TEXIER ,  Nicolas MARTIN

IPC: G01C5/06 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G01C23/00 ,  B64C39/02

CPC classification number: G01C5/06 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/027 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  G01C23/00

Abstract: A drone including a barometric sensor adapted to deliver a drone altitude signal; a sensor for measuring the attitude of said drone, adapted to estimate at least one angle of attitude of the drone, and altitude determination means adapted to deliver a drone altitude value, expressed in an absolute terrestrial reference system. The drone includes a relative wind speed sensor adapted to measure the relative wind speed and the altitude determination means includes a device for memorizing predetermined altitude compensation data, an altitude estimator receiving as an input the signals delivered by the attitude measurement sensor and by the relative wind speed sensor and by the barometric sensor and combining these signals with the altitude compensation data memorized in the memorized device to output the estimated drone altitude value.

公开(公告)号：US09709983B2

公开(公告)日：2017-07-18

申请号：US14935348

申请日：2015-11-06

Applicant: PARROT DRONES

Inventor： Henri Seydoux ,  Arsene Ferrand ,  Nicolas Brulez ,  Farid Zaouia

IPC: A63H30/04 ,  G05D1/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G08C17/02 ,  A63H27/00

CPC classification number: G05D1/0022 ,  A63H27/12 ,  A63H30/04 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/024 ,  B64C2201/123 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  G08C17/02 ,  G08C2201/93

Abstract: This unit implements a remote-control console (20) supporting a tablet (18). The console comprises a TX/RX module (48) interfaced with a TX/RX module (50) of the tablet to form a first Wi-Fi local network, which is a short-range standard network. The console comprises another specific TX/RX module (54), interfaced with an TX/RX module (58) of the drone (10) to form a second Wi-Fi local network, which is an optimized long-range network, both being networks operating on non-shared channels. A bidirectional routing module (78) ensures the interfacing between the two Wi-Fi networks, to allow the transparent exchange of data between the drone (10) and the tablet (18), as well as with levers and buttons of the console (64, 66) or with a peripheral (80) connected thereto.

公开(公告)号：US20170150053A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-25

申请号：US15333014

申请日：2016-10-24

Applicant: PARROT DRONES

Inventor： Pierre Eline

IPC: H04N5/232 ,  B64D47/08 ,  B64C39/02

CPC classification number: H04N5/23258 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64D47/08 ,  H04N5/23267

Abstract: The drone comprises a camera (14) having a rolling shutter digital sensor which sends video data (l) line by line. An inertial unit (26) sends a gyrometric signal representative of the variations in attitude (φ, θ, Ψ) of the camera at a given instant. An image processing module (30) comprising an anti-wobble module receives the video data (l) and the gyrometric signal as inputs, and outputs video data processed and corrected for artifacts introduced by the vibrations of the motors of the drone. A complementary filtering module (36) applies a predetermined compensating transfer function to the gyrometric signal at the input of the anti-wobble module, which transfer function is an inverse transfer function of the frequency response of the gyrometric sensor of the inertial unit.

公开(公告)号：US20170108857A1

公开(公告)日：2017-04-20

申请号：US15293772

申请日：2016-10-14

Applicant: PARROT DRONES

Inventor： Martin Line

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/0481 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G06F3/041

CPC classification number: G05D1/0016 ,  A63H30/04 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  G05D1/0022 ,  G05D1/0038 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  G06F3/04817 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  G06F3/04886 ,  G06F2203/04104 ,  G06F2203/04105

Abstract: A device (15) for piloting a drone (10) comprising a touch screen (18) displaying a touch-sensitive area, means for detecting signals emitted by the touch-sensitive area, and means for transforming said detected signals into piloting commands and transmitting said commands to the drone. The device comprises control means, controlled by the touch-sensitive area forming activation/deactivation button, to make the drone piloting mode alternately switch between a mode of activation of the system for holding the last detected commands, mode in which said piloting commands transmitted to the drone result from the transformation of the last detected signals before the switching to the activation mode, and a mode of deactivation of the system for holding the last detected commands, mode in which said piloting commands transmitted to the drone result from the transformation of the current detected signals. The invention also relates to an associated method for controlling a drone.

公开(公告)号：US11117661B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-14

申请号：US16125391

申请日：2018-09-07

Applicant: Parrot Drones

Inventor： Christine Caubel

IPC: B64C39/02 ,  B64C1/06 ,  B64C1/30 ,  B64C27/50 ,  A63H27/00

Abstract: The rotary wing drone comprises at least one rotor carried by a drone structure, wherein the drone structure comprises a drone body and at least one group of arms comprising a plurality of arms rotatably mounted on the drone body about the same axis of rotation, between a deployed position for flight and a folded position for transport.

公开(公告)号：USD860048S1

公开(公告)日：2019-09-17

申请号：US35504453

申请日：2017-12-08

Applicant: PARROT DRONES

Designer： Christine Caubel ,  Sylvain Gerber ,  Thibaud Keller ,  Thierry Sanlaville ,  Mathias Gayraud ,  Maxime Ducloux

公开(公告)号：US20190035098A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-31

申请号：US16043790

申请日：2018-07-24

Applicant: PARROT DRONES

Inventor： Clément Pinard

IPC: G06T7/593 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G06N3/08

Abstract: An electronic device for generating, from a pair of successive images of a scene including a set of object(s), a depth map of the scene, comprises: a module for acquiring a pair of images of the scene, taken by a sensor, a module for computing, via a neural network, an intermediate depth map, each intermediate map being computed for a respective acquired pair of images and having a value indicative of a depth for each object of the scene, an input variable of the neural network being the acquired pair of images, an output variable of the neural network being the intermediate map, and a module for generating the depth map of the scene from at least one computed intermediate map.

公开(公告)号：US10171746B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-01

申请号：US15256404

申请日：2016-09-02

Applicant: PARROT DRONES

Inventor： Benoit Pochon ,  Axel Balley ,  Henri Seydoux

IPC: H04N5/235 ,  H04N5/232 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/46 ,  G06T3/00 ,  H04N5/225

Abstract: The drone comprises a camera (14), an inertial unit (46) measuring the drone angles, and an extractor module (52) delivering image data of a mobile capture area of reduced size dynamically displaced in a direction opposite to that of the variations of angle measured by the inertial unit. The module analyses the image data elements of the useful area to assign to each one a weighting coefficient representative of a probability of belonging to the sky, and defines dynamically a boundary of segmentation (F) of the useful area between sky and ground as a function of these weighting coefficients. Two distinct groups of regions of interest ROIs are defined, for the sky area and for the ground area, respectively, and the dynamic exposure control means are controlled as a function of the image data of the ROIs of one of these groups, in particular by excluding the ROIs of the sky area.

公开(公告)号：US20180299750A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-18

申请号：US15487489

申请日：2017-04-14

Applicant: PARROT DRONES

Inventor： Jean-François VUILLET ,  Christine CAUBEL ,  Guillaume CHEVRIER

IPC: G03B17/56 ,  F16M13/02 ,  F16M11/12 ,  F16M11/18 ,  F16M13/04 ,  B64D47/08 ,  F16B21/12

Abstract: A camera support system includes a base configured to be fixedly attached to an object, the base including a base coupling part; a support assembly configured for releasable coupling with the base, the support assembly including a support assembly coupling part configured for engaging with the base coupling part along a coupling axis and a camera supporting part for supporting a camera with allowing spatial orientation of the camera about at least one rotation axis; and a locking ring pivotally mounted on the support assembly about the coupling axis for locking the support assembly with the base, the support assembly being configured for releasably coupling to the base by engaging the support assembly coupling part with the base coupling part along the coupling axis and subsequently pivoting the locking ring about the coupling axis for locking the support assembly to the base.