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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 16, 2022
Applicant:

Wing Aviation Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Christopher Cobar, Mountain View, CA (US);

Jeremie Gabor, Mountain View, CA (US);

Ali Shoeb, San Rafael, CA (US);

Assignee:

Wing Aviation LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2024.01); B64C 39/02 (2023.01); B64U 101/30 (2023.01); G06V 10/75 (2022.01); G06V 20/17 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0676 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); G05D 1/0808 (2013.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01); G06V 10/751 (2022.01); G06V 20/17 (2022.01); B64U 2101/30 (2023.01); B64U 2201/10 (2023.01);
Abstract

In some embodiments, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is provided. The UAV comprises one or more processors; a camera; one or more propulsion devices; and a computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the one or more processors, cause the UAV to perform actions comprising: receiving at least one image captured by the camera; generating labels for pixels of the at least one image by providing the at least one image as input to a machine learning model; identifying one or more landing spaces in the at least one image based on the labels; determining a relative position of the UAV with respect to the one or more landing spaces; and transmitting signals to the one or more propulsion devices based on the relative position of the UAV with respect to the one or more landing spaces.


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