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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2018
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Taylor David Grenier, Seattle, WA (US);
Louis Leroi LeGrand, III, Seattle, WA (US);
Barry James O'Brien, Seattle, WA (US);
Joshua John Watson, Seattle, WA (US);
Ricky Dean Welsh, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Described is an aerial vehicle, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle ('UAV'), that includes a plurality of sensors, such as stereo cameras, mounted along a perimeter frame of the aerial vehicle and arranged to generate a scene that surrounds the aerial vehicle. The sensors may be mounted in or on winglets of the perimeter frame. Each of the plurality of sensors has a field of view and the plurality of optical sensors are arranged and/or oriented such that their fields of view overlap with one another throughout a continuous space that surrounds the perimeter frame. The fields of view may also include a portion of the perimeter frame or space that is adjacent to the perimeter frame.