Course profiling and sharing
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorsMichael Taylor, Dennis Dale Castleman
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Abstract
Systems and methods for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) course profiling are provided. A plurality of images may be captured by a UAV flying along a course at a first location. A profile may be constructed for the course based on the images captured by the UAV. The constructed course profile is transmitted over a communication network to a virtual reality system at a second location. The virtual reality system may generate a virtual environment corresponding to the course based on the constructed course profile, and a second UAV at the second location may fly along the virtual course.
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A system for UAV-based space profiling, the system comprising:
- an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that includes a sensor that captures data regarding a physical space at a first location;
- a processor that executes instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor:
- constructs a profile for the physical space based on the data captured by the UAV, and
- adds one or more virtual elements to the constructed profile;
- and
- a network interface that transmits the constructed profile over a communication network to a virtual reality system at a second location, wherein the virtual reality system generates a virtual environment corresponding to the physical space based on the constructed profile, the virtual environment including the virtual elements specified by the constructed profile.
A method for UAV-based space profiling, the method comprising:
- capturing data regarding a physical space at a first location via a sensor on a UAV;
- executing instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by a processor:
- constructs a profile for the physical space based on the data captured by the UAV, and
- adds one or more virtual elements to the constructed profile;
- and
- transmitting the constructed profile over a communication network to a virtual reality system at a second location, wherein the virtual reality system generates a virtual environment corresponding to the physical space based on the constructed profile, the virtual environment including the virtual elements specified by the constructed profile.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for UAV-based course profiling, the method comprising:
- capturing data regarding a physical space at a first location via a sensor on a UAV;
- constructing a profile for the physical space based on the data captured by the UAV;
- adding one or more virtual elements to the constructed profile;
- and
- transmitting the constructed profile over a communication network to a virtual reality system at a second location, wherein the virtual reality system generates a virtual environment corresponding to the physical space based on the constructed profile, the virtual environment including the virtual elements specified by the constructed profile.
A system for UAV-based space profiling, the system comprising:
- a network interface that communicates over a communication network to receive a constructed profile corresponding to a physical space at a remote location;
- a processor that executes instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor scales the constructed profile for a local physical space, and
- a virtual reality system at the local physical space, wherein the virtual reality system generates a virtual environment corresponding to the physical space at the remote location based on the scaled profile, the virtual environment including one or more virtual elements specified by the scaled profile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.