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US 2017/0324907 A1Published application
Control device, control method, and computer program
AssigneeSony 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.
Claims20
A flying camera comprising:
- a body component;
- a camera configured to capture an image;
- circuitry configured to control wireless transmission of the image to a control device for displaying the image being captured and reception of a flight instruction from the control device;
- at least four rotors configured to be rotated respectively for flying;
- and
- at least four support components configured to respectively support each of the four rotors and being respectively rotatable with the four rotors on a plurality of axes with respect to the body,
- wherein each of the four support components are foldable by rotating on the plurality of axes to be stacked at a predetermined position with respect to the camera in a folded state for portability and the four support components are opened from the stacked position toward an outside of the body in an extended state for flying in which the image is transmitted and the flight instruction is received.
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A system comprising:
- a flying camera comprising:
- a body component,
- a camera configured to capture an image,
- circuitry configured to control wireless transmission of the image to a control device for displaying the image being captured and reception of a flight instruction from the control device,
- at least four rotors configured to be rotated respectively for flying, and
- at least four support components configured to respectively support each of the four rotors and being respectively rotatable with the four rotors on a plurality of axes with respect to the body,
- wherein each of the four support components are foldable by rotating on the plurality of axes to be stacked at a predetermined position with respect to the camera in a folded state for portability and the four support components are opened from the stacked position toward an outside of the body in an extended state for flying in which the image is transmitted and the flight instruction is received;
- and
- the control device comprising:
- processing circuitry configured to generate the flight instruction based on a touch operation on a touch panel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.