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US 10,379,534 B2Granted
Drone flight control
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsErik Visser, Lae-Hoon Kim, Ricardo De Jesus Bernal Castillo, Shuhua Zhang, Raghuveer Peri
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Abstract
A drone system and method. Audio signals are received via one or more microphones positioned relative to a location on a drone and one or more of the audio signals are identified as of interest. Flight characteristics of the drone are then controlled based on the audio signals that are of interest.
Claims28
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a processor, audio signals via a plurality of microphones positioned relative to a location on a drone, the audio signals including audio signals emanating from a source outside the drone as well as rotor noise or wind noise;
- identifying, by the processor, audio signals that are of interest from the received audio signals;
- and
- controlling, by the processor, flight characteristics of the drone based on the audio signals that are of interest such that a signal-to-noise ratio of the audio signals that are of interest is increased.
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A nonvolatile computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to:
- receive audio signals via one or more microphones positioned relative to a location on a drone, the audio signals including audio signals emanating from a source outside the drone as well as rotor noise or wind noise;
- identify audio signals that are of interest from the received audio signals;
- and
- control flight characteristics of the drone based on the audio signals that are of interest such that a signal-to-noise ratio of the audio signals that are of interest is increased.
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A drone remote control, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- a receiver;
- a transmitter;
- and
- a nonvolatile computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that are executable by the at least one processor to:
- receive audio signal information representing audio signals received by a drone, the audio signal information including audio signals emanating from a source outside the drone as well as rotor noise or wind noise;
- identify, based on the audio signal information, one or more audio signals that are of interest from the received audio signals;
- and
- control flight characteristics of the drone based on the audio signals that are of interest such that a signal-to-noise ratio of the audio signals that are of interest is increased.
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A drone, comprising:
- a processor;
- a plurality of microphones;
- a receiver;
- a transmitter;
- and
- a nonvolatile computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that are executable by the processor to:
- receive audio signals via the microphones, the audio signals including audio signals emanating from a source outside the drone as well as rotor noise or wind noise;
- identify audio signals that are of interest from the received audio signals;
- and
- control flight characteristics of the drone based on the audio signals that are of interest such that a signal-to-noise ratio of the audio signals that are of interest is increased.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.