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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2021
Skydio, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Peter Henry, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jack Zhu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian Richman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Harrison Zheng, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hayk Martirosyan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Donahoe, Redwood City, CA (US);
Abraham Bachrach, Redwood City, CA (US);
Adam Bry, Redwood City, CA (US);
Ryan David Kennedy, Redwood City, CA (US);
Himel Mondal, Windsor, CA;
Quentin Allen Wah Yen Delepine, Cupertino, CA (US);
SKYDIO, INC., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
In some examples, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) employs one or more image sensors to capture images of a scan target and may use distance information from the images for determining respective locations in three-dimensional (3D) space of a plurality of points of a 3D model representative of a surface of the scan target. The UAV may compare a first image with a second image to determine a difference between a current frame of reference position for the UAV and an estimate of an actual frame of reference position for the UAV. Further, based at least on the difference, the UAV may determine, while the UAV is in flight, an update to the 3D model including at least one of an updated location of at least one point in the 3D model, or a location of a new point in the 3D model.