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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2022
Applicant:
Sz Dji Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Inventor:
Honghui Zhang, Shenzhen, CN;
Assignee:
SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Shenzhen, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/20 (2006.01); G05D 1/10 (2006.01); G01C 21/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G01S 19/14 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/20 (2013.01); G01C 21/005 (2013.01); G01C 21/3852 (2020.08); G01S 19/14 (2013.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01); G05D 1/106 (2019.05); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G05D 2201/0207 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of controlling flight of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes collecting, while the UAV traverses a flight path, a set of images corresponding to different fields of view of an environment around the UAV using multiple image capture devices, extracting one or more image features from the set of images, constructing a map of the environment using one or more selected image features from the one or more image features, and generating a return path for the UAV using the map of the environment. Each of the multiple image capture devices includes one of the different fields of view.