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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2016
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Inventor:
Hajime Maekawa, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 39/02 (2006.01); G05D 1/04 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 39/024 (2013.01); G05D 1/0094 (2013.01); G05D 1/042 (2013.01); B64C 2201/024 (2013.01); B64C 2201/127 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device that controls the flight altitude of an unmanned aerial vehicle having mounted thereon an imaging device that captures an image of the ground, the device being provided with: one or more memories; and circuitry which, in operation, recognizes, as a plurality of markers, a plurality of objects located on the ground from the image captured by the imaging device, calculates the area of a polygon formed by the plurality of markers, and controls the flight altitude of the unmanned aerial vehicle in such a way that the area of the polygon is maximized.