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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2020
Ntt Docomo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Kaori Niihata, Tokyo, JP;
Tadao Takami, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Ishii, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Kawakami, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichiro Segawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Kitamura, Tokyo, JP;
NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A setting unit sets the operating mode of an aerial vehicle to a first operating mode that transmits, data generated by a host aerial vehicle and data received from another aerial vehicle to a processing device, or a second operating mode that transmits data generated by a host aerial vehicle to another aerial vehicle. At this time, setting unit sets the operating modes of each of a plurality of aerial vehicles using a setting method corresponding to the attributes of an airspace in which aerial vehicle flies, from among a plurality of setting methods that set the operating mode of aerial vehicle. The attributes of an airspace include attributes determined in accordance with a degree of importance pertaining to the process of transmitting data from aerial vehicle to a server device and/or attributes determined in accordance with the extent to which processes are distributed among a plurality of aerial vehicles.