Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Unmanned aerial vehicle obstacle detection and avoidance
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Application No.: US14989428Application Date: 2016-01-06
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Publication No.: US10019907B2Publication Date: 2018-07-10
- Inventor: Parag Mohan Kanade , Charles Wheeler Sweet, III , Jeffrey Baginsky Gehlhaar
- Applicant: Qualcomm Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Paradice and Li LLP/Qualcomm
- Main IPC: G01C23/00
- IPC: G01C23/00 ; G05D1/00 ; G05D3/00 ; G06F7/00 ; G06F17/00 ; G08G5/04 ; G08G5/00 ; G06K9/66 ; G06K9/00 ; G06K9/46 ; G01C22/00 ; B60Q1/00
Abstract:
Apparatuses and methods for detecting an obstacle in a path of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) are described herein, including, but not limited to, receiving data from a single image/video capturing device of the UAV, computing a score based on the received data, and performing at least one obstacle avoidance maneuver based on the score.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170076616A1 UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE OBSTACLE DETECTION AND AVOIDANCE Public/Granted day:2017-03-16
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