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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2023
Skydio, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Saumitro Dasgupta, Redwood City, CA (US);
Hayk Martirosyan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hema Koppula, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alex Kendall, Cambridge, GB;
Austin Stone, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Donahoe, Redwood City, CA (US);
Abraham Galton Bachrach, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Adam Parker Bry, Redwood City, CA (US);
Skydio, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for tracking objects in a physical environment using visual sensors onboard an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In certain embodiments, images of the physical environment captured by the onboard visual sensors are processed to extract semantic information about detected objects. Processing of the captured images may involve applying machine learning techniques such as a deep convolutional neural network to extract semantic cues regarding objects detected in the images. The object tracking can be utilized, for example, to facilitate autonomous navigation by the UAV or to generate and display augmentative information regarding tracked objects to users.