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US 12,578,726 B2Granted
Flying camera and a system
AssigneeSony Group Corporation
InventorsKohtaro Sabe, Yasunori Kawanami, Kenta Kawamoto, Tsutomu Sawada, Satoru Shimizu, Peter Duerr, Yuki Yamamoto
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Abstract
There is provided a control device including an image display unit configured to acquire, from a flying body, an image captured by an imaging device provided in the flying body and to display the image, and a flight instruction generation unit configured to generate a flight instruction for the flying body based on content of an operation performed with respect to the image captured by the imaging device and displayed by the image display unit.
Claims18
A method performed by a flying camera, the method comprising:
- driving rotors attached to a body of the flying camera so as to fly the flying camera;
- with circuitry of the flying camera, wirelessly transmitting to a controller an image captured with a camera of the flying camera;
- with the circuitry of the flying camera, detecting a target face;
- with the circuitry of the flying camera, controlling the flying camera so that the target face being captured by the flying camera is positioned at a predetermined distance from the flying camera and so that the camera is facing the target face;
- with the circuitry of the flying camera, detecting a part of a body of a user;
- and
- with the circuitry of the flying camera, slowing down rotation of the rotors and landing the flying camera on the part of the body of the user;
- and
- in response to the flying device attempting to fly beyond a predetermined flight range, controlling a user interface to generate an alert.
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A flying camera, comprising:
- a body;
- rotors with arms attached to the body, the rotors configured to be rotated respectively to fly the body;
- a camera disposed on the body and flown by the rotors with the body;
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- circuitry configured to
- wirelessly transmit to a control device an image captured with the camera,
- detect a target face,
- control the flying camera so that the target face being captured by the flying camera is positioned at a predetermined distance from the flying camera and so that the camera is facing the target face,
- detect a part of a body of a user,
- slow down rotation of the rotors and land the flying camera on the part of the body of the user, and
- in response to the flying device attempting to fly beyond a predetermined flight range, control a user interface to generate an alert.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.