US 11,531,951 B2 · Information processing apparatus

Abstract

The location detection unit detects a destination location for delivery of an item by a drone. The release determination unit determines whether the drone transporting the item can release and place the item at the destination. Upon determination that the release and placement is not possible, a standby airspace determination unit determines a standby airspace within which the drone waits. The wait-time determination unit determines a wait-time for the drone in the determined standby airspace. The wait-time determination unit determines a wait-time by which the drone can arrive at a next destination by a scheduled arrival time following departure of the drone departs after standby. The standby instruction unit issues to the drone an instruction related to the standby.

Claims10

Dependent claims

An information processing apparatus comprising:

a judging unit configured to determine whether an aerial vehicle transporting an item can release the item at a delivery destination;
and
a determination unit configured to determine a wait-time length for the aerial vehicle within a predetermined airspace at the delivery destination when it is determined that the aerial vehicle is not able to release the item at the delivery destination, wherein the wait-time length is based on at least one of a schedule of flight, an attribute of the item transported by the aerial vehicle, a remaining battery level, weather, a schedule of a recipient and whether there is a wait place that the aerial vehicle can land.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/771,854Filed 22 Jan 2019

Priority

JP JP2018-00901223 Jan 2018

Published

US 2021/0073715 A111 Mar 2021

Granted

20 Dec 2022

Term ends

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Classification22 codes

G06Q 10/083
Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management: shipping
B60L 50/60
Using propulsion power supplied by batteries or fuel cells: using power supplied by batteries
B60L 58/12
For monitoring or controlling batteries: responding to state of charge [SoC]
B64D 1/12
The articles being load-carrying devices: releasing

Information processing apparatus

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Abstract

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