Camera and sensor controls for remotely operated vehicles and virtual environments
AssigneeFluidity Technologies Inc.
InventorsScott Edward Parazynski, Brandon Tran, Radley Angelo, Austin Hill
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Abstract
A hand controller that includes a control member mounted on a hand held base for commanding a remote vehicle or movement of a virtual object within a virtual environment includes an input device mounted for generating tilt commands for a sensor mounted on the remote vehicle or the virtual object, the input device being located on a front of the base and oriented to be displaced up and down to tilt the sensor or the virtual point of view when the base is held during operation.
Claims26
A controller for remotely controlling movement of a target having a point of view (POV), the controller comprising:
- a base shaped to be held by one of a user's two hands when controlling movement of the target, the base having an intended orientation with respect to the user when being held during operation of the target;
- a manually-displaceable control member mounted to the base in a position for allowing manually displacement by the user's other hand for generating control inputs to command movement of the target;
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- an input device mounted on the base and deflectable up and down on the base with respect to the intended orientation, the deflection of the input device causing the controller to generate a tilt command to tilt the POV up and down with respect to the target.
A controller for remotely controlling a remote vehicle, on which is mounted a sensor, the controller comprising:
- a base shaped to be held by one of a user's two hands, the base having an intended orientation with respect to the user when being held during operation of the target;
- at least one manually-displaceable control member mounted on top of the base in a position allowing for manual displacement by the user's other hand for generating control inputs to command movement of the target;
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- an input device mounted on the base and causing generation of a tilt command when deflected up and down with respect to the base when the base is held in the intended orientation.
A controller for remotely controlling movement of a target having a point of view (POV), the controller comprising:
- a base shaped to be held by one hand of a user when moving the target, the base having an intended orientation with respect to a user when being held during operation of a remote object;
- a first, manually-displaceable control member mounted to a base for generating control inputs to command movement of the target, and a second control member mounted to the same manually-displaceable first control member, the first and second control members having at least four degrees of freedom for generating control inputs for commanding movement of a remote vehicle in four corresponding degrees of freedom;
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- an input device mounted on the base and deflectable up and down on the base with respect to the intended orientation to generate a tilt command to tilt the POV up and down with respect to the target, the input device located on a front of the base in a position that enables a finger on a hand holding the base to deflect the input device, the deflection of the input device generating of the tilt command.
A controller for remotely controlling movement of a target with a sensor mounted on a steerable platform to adjust its orientation, the controller comprising:
- a base;
- at least one manually-displaceable control member mounted to a base for generating control inputs to command movement of a remote object;
- an input device mounted on the base, the input device comprising a rotary wheel having a plurality of positions, each of the plurality of positions associated with one or more predefined parameters, at least one of the predefined parameters for each of the plurality of positions being selected from a group consisting of parameters relating to the sensor and to a responsiveness of the steerable platform to command for adjustment of the orientation of a camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.