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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. 31, 2026

Filed:

Mar. 04, 2020
Applicant:

Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Akira Inoue, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 5/55 (2025.01); B64C 39/02 (2023.01); B64U 50/19 (2023.01); B64U 101/30 (2023.01); G06V 10/40 (2022.01); G08G 5/26 (2025.01); G08G 5/57 (2025.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 5/55 (2025.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); G06V 10/40 (2022.01); G08G 5/26 (2025.01); G08G 5/57 (2025.01); B64U 50/19 (2023.01); B64U 2101/30 (2023.01); B64U 2201/20 (2023.01);
Abstract

A control device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: an acquiring means for acquiring position information, battery information, and movement capability information regarding each of mobile objects; a predicting means predict a monitorable time based on the position information of a monitoring mobile object, the position information of a standby mobile object, and the battery information and the movement capability information of each of the mobile objects, the monitoring mobile object monitoring a target, the standby mobile object being on standby, the monitorable time being a time for which the target is monitorable by each standby mobile object; a selecting means for selecting, based on the monitoring availability time, at least one mobile object among the standby mobile objects; and a controlling means for controlling the selected mobile object to move to a position from which to monitor the target.


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