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US 11,685,545 B2Granted
Tethered sensor for close up viewing
AssigneeModern Technology Solutions, Inc.
InventorMarinus Bernard Bosma
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Abstract
An imaging system has a tether sub-system deployable and retrievable from an aircraft, an imaging device attached at a deployable end of the tether, and control apparatus comprising control and communication circuitry receiving images captured by the imaging apparatus and storing the images. The tether is deployed to a predetermined length, the aircraft is piloted in a flight pattern causing the imaging device at the deployed end of the tether to attain a fixed position proximate an imaging target, and the control apparatus is operated to capture images of the target.
Claims9
A sensing system, comprising:
- a tether having a first end and a second end, the first end attached to an aircraft, the tether deployable and retrievable from the aircraft;
- an imaging device attached at the second end in line with the tether;
- a rotational base attached in line with the tether between a camera lens of the imaging device and the aircraft;
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- a control apparatus comprising control and communication circuitry receiving data captured by the imaging device and storing the images;
- wherein the tether is deployable to a predetermined length with the sensing device at the deployed end of the tether attaining a fixed position proximate an imaging target, the control apparatus is operable to maneuver the rotational base, and the camera lens is at a lowermost position in line with the tether and is enabled to capture images of the target.
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