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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2020
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Erio Akanuma, Kanagawa, JP;
Keisuke Maeda, Tokyo, JP;
SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Proposed are a mobile object, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that are capable of improving the accuracy of determining whether to land a drone aircraft on a landing surface. The mobile object of the present technology includes a control unit. The control unit calculates a temporal change of a landing surface from images in which the landing surface for the mobile object is imaged in time series by an imaging unit of the mobile object in a hovering state, and determines whether to land the mobile object on the landing surface on the basis of the calculated temporal change.