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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2023
Wing Aviation Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
David Stonestrom, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ali Shoeb, San Rafael, CA (US);
Marcus Hammond, Redwood City, CA (US);
Wing Aviation LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A technique for a UAV includes: acquiring an aerial image of an area below a UAV that includes one or more instances of an object; analyzing the aerial image with an image classifier to classify select pixels of the aerial image as being keypoint pixels associated with keypoints of the object; grouping the keypoint pixels into one or more groups each associated with one of the instances of the object, wherein first keypoint pixels of the keypoint pixels are grouped into a first group of the one or more groups associated with a first instance of the one or more instances of the object; generating an estimate of a relative position of the UAV to the first instance of the object based at least upon a machine vision analysis of the first keypoint pixels; and navigating the UAV into alignment with the first instance based upon the estimate.