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US 12,694,617 B2Granted
System and methods for improved aerial mapping with aerial vehicles
AssigneeDroneDeploy, Inc.
InventorsJonathan James Millin, Nicholas Pilkington, Devin Lane, Christopher Sullivan, Michael Winn
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Abstract
A method for image generation, preferably including: generating a set of mission parameters for a UAV mission of the UAV associated with aerial scanning of a region of interest; controlling the UAV to perform the mission; generating an image subassembly corresponding to the mission; and/or rendering the image subassembly at a display.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving a frame of a region of interest captured by a camera of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV);
- determining a respective quality metric for each band of a plurality of bands of the frame;
- determining whether each band is to be incorporated into a subassembly of frames, based on the respective quality metric for each band of the plurality of bands of the frame;
- and
- incorporating only bands of the frame that include quality metrics above a threshold quality metric into the subassembly of frames.
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A device comprising:
- a memory configured to store instructions;
- and
- a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a frame of a region of interest captured by a camera of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV);
- determining a respective quality metric for each band of a plurality of bands of the frame;
- determining whether each band is to be incorporated into a subassembly of frames, based on the respective quality metric for each band of the plurality of bands of the frame;
- and
- incorporating only bands of the frame that include quality metrics above a threshold quality metric into the subassembly of frames.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium configured to store instructions that, when executed by a processor, perform operations comprising:
- receiving a frame of a region of interest captured by a camera of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV);
- determining a respective quality metric for each band of a plurality of bands of the frame;
- determining whether each band is to be incorporated into a subassembly of frames, based on the respective quality metric for each band of the plurality of bands of the frame;
- and
- incorporating only bands of the frame that include quality metrics above a threshold quality metric into the subassembly of frames.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.