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US 10,579,863 B2Granted
Unmanned aerial vehicle with biometric verification
AssigneeGlobal Tel*Link Corporation
InventorMitch Volkart
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for locating, identifying, and tracking a known criminal, fugitive, missing person, and/or any other person of interest. An embodiment operates by deploying an unmanned aerial vehicle, determining the mode of operation of the UAV, operating the UAV in accordance with the mode of operation of the UAV, determining whether a subject has been detected, capturing a first voice sample associated with the subject, authenticating the identity of the subject, and transmitting the GPS location of the unmanned aerial vehicle to a computing device.
Claims20
An unmanned aerial vehicle, comprising:
- a global positioning system receiver configured to determine a first global position of the unmanned aerial vehicle;
- a directional control system configured to move the unmanned aerial vehicle;
- an imaging device;
- a biometric sensing device;
- and
- a processor in communication with the global positioning receiver and the biometric sensing device, wherein the processor is configured to:
- capture a first piece of biometric data associated with a monitored subject using the biometric sensing device;
- determine whether the first piece of biometric data meets a quality requirement;
- in response to the first piece of biometric data not meeting the quality requirement, reposition, using the directional control system, the unmanned aerial vehicle;
- responsive to repositioning the unmanned aerial vehicle, capture a second piece of biometric data associated with the monitored subject using the biometric sensing device;
- transmit the second piece of biometric data to a computing device;
- determine an identity of the monitored subject based on the second piece of biometric data;
- in response to determining the identity of the monitored subject:
- estimate a second global position of the monitored subject based, at least in part, on the first global position of the unmanned aerial vehicle and an additional data point associated with a characteristic of the imaging device;
- continuously update the estimated second global position of the monitored subject;
- and
- continuously transmit the updated second global position to the computing device.
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An unmanned aerial vehicle, comprising:
- a global positioning system receiver configured to determine a first global position of the unmanned aerial vehicle;
- a directional control system configured to move the unmanned aerial vehicle;
- an imaging device;
- and
- a processor in communication with the global positioning receiver and the imaging device, wherein the processor is configured to:
- capture a first piece of data using the imaging device;
- determine whether the first piece of data meets a quality requirement;
- in response to the first piece of data not meeting the quality requirement, reposition using the directional control system, the unmanned aerial vehicle;
- responsive to repositioning the unmanned aerial vehicle, capture a second piece of data using the imaging device;
- transmit the second piece of data to a computing device;
- determine an identity of the monitored subject based on the second piece of biometric data;
- in response to determining the identity of the monitored subject:
- estimate a second global position of the monitored subject based, at least in part, on the first global position of the unmanned aerial vehicle;
- and
- continuously update the estimated second global position of the monitored subject;
- and
- continuously transmit the updated second global position to the computing device.
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A method for determining a position of a monitored subject, the method comprising:
- capturing a first piece of biometric data associated with the monitored subject;
- determining whether the first piece of biometric data meets a quality requirement;
- in response to the first piece of biometric data not meeting the quality requirement, repositioning the unmanned aerial vehicle;
- responsive to repositioning the unmanned aerial vehicle, capturing a second piece of biometric data associated with the monitored subject;
- transmitting the second piece of biometric data to a computing device;
- determine an identity of the monitored subject based on the second piece of biometric data;
- in response to determining the identity of the monitored subject:
- estimating a second global position related to the monitored subject based, at least in part, on the first global position of the unmanned aerial vehicle;
- continuously update the estimated second global position of the monitored subject;
- and
- continuously transmitting the updated second global position to the computing device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.