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US 10,757,376 B1Granted
Image creation using geo-fence data
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsKalidas Yeturu, Howard Lee Huddleston, Jr.
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AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsKalidas Yeturu, Howard Lee Huddleston, Jr.
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An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) may perform a surveillance action at a property of an authorized party. The property may be defined by a geo-fence, which may be a virtual perimeter or boundary around a real-world geographic area. The UAV may image the property to generate surveillance images, and the surveillance images may include image data of objects inside the geo-fence and image data of objects outside the geo-fence. While gathering surveillance images, or after the surveillance images have been gathered, the geo-fence information may be used to obscure or remove image data referring to objects outside the geo-fence. Geo-clipped surveillance images may be generated by physically constraining a sensor of the UAV, by performing pre-image capture processing, or post-image capture processing. Geo-clipped surveillance images may be limited to authorized property, so privacy is ensured for private persons and property.
A system comprising:
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by one or more processors, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
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