Synaptics Corporation

Foveon, Inc.

Motionloft, Inc.

Jeffrey Orion Pritchard

Richard Francis Lyon

Carver A Mead

Timothy P Allen

Richard Robert Schediwy

Peter O Schmidt

Mark Cuban

John C Platt

Joyce Reitman

Ting Kao

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can include one or more cameras for capturing image data within a field of view that depends in part upon the location and orientation of the UAV. At least a portion of the image data can be processed on the UAV to locate objects of interest, such as people or cars, and use that information to determine where to fly the drone in order to capture higher quality image data of those or other such objects. Once identified, the objects of interest can be counted, and the density, movement, location, and behavior of those objects identified. This can help to determine occurrences such as traffic congestion or unusual patterns of pedestrian movement, as well as to locate persons, fires, or other such objects. The data can also be analyzed by a remote system or service that has additional resources to provide more accurate results.

Object detection and analysis via unmanned aerial vehicle

An electronic view camera integrates a camera head assembly and laptop computer into a tripod mountable unified structure. The rigid frame, that unifies the camera head and computer, accommodates a choice of laptop type computers from a variety of different manufacturers. The open front, back and side design of the rigid frame permits ready access for electrical connections and for access to removable storage devices, keyboard, and pointing device. The computer LCD acts as a large screen viewfinder for the camera and has the 'feel' of a professional type view camera rather than the 'feel' of a computer system with a photographic peripheral.

Electronic view camera for tripod mounting

An object proximity sensor includes a capacitive touch-sensitive transducer including row conductive lines insulated from column conductive lines to from a matrix. An insulating layer is disposed over the matrix and has a thickness selected to achieve significant capacitive coupling between an object placed on its surface and the matrix. Circuitry first drives each of the row conductive lines to a fixed voltage and then simultaneously injects a known amount of charge onto each of the row conductive lines, and then senses for each row conductive line a row-sense voltage created by the known amount of charge injected onto each of the row conductive lines, and, simultaneous with injected the known amount of charge, changes the voltage on all of the column conductive lines in the same direction as the row-sense voltage by an amount no greater than about twice the difference between the fixed voltage and an average of all row-sense voltage in the transducer. Circuitry first drives each of the column conductive lines to a fixed voltage and then simultaneously injects a known amount of charge onto each of the column conductive lines, and then senses for each column conductive line a column-sense voltage created by the known amount of charge injected onto each of the column conductive lines, and, simultaneous with injecting the known amount of charge, changes the voltage on all of the row conductive lines in the same direction as the column-sense voltages by an amount no greater than about twice the difference between the fixed voltage and an average of all column-sense voltages in the transducer. A set of object-sensed electrical signals related to all of the row-sense voltages and all of the column-sense voltages is produced.

Object position detector

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Jeffrey Orion Pritchard