Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Roof scan using unmanned aerial vehicle
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Application No.: US16987336Application Date: 2020-08-06
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Publication No.: US11455895B2Publication Date: 2022-09-27
- Inventor: Peter Henry , Jack Zhu , Brian Richman , Harrison Zheng , Hayk Martirosyan , Matthew Donahoe , Abraham Galton Bachrach , Adam Bry
- Applicant: Skydio, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Redwood City
- Assignee: Skydio, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Skydio, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Redwood City
- Agency: Young Basile Hanlon & MacFarlane, P.C.
- Main IPC: G08G5/00
- IPC: G08G5/00 ; G06F3/04845 ; G06F3/04817 ; G06T17/05 ; G06T19/00 ; G06F3/04847 ; B64C39/02 ; B64D47/08 ; G05D1/10 ; G05D1/00 ; G08G5/04 ; G01S13/89 ; G01S17/89 ; H04N5/272 ; G06T17/10 ; G06V20/13 ; G06V20/10 ; H04N13/204

Abstract:
Described herein are systems for roof scan using an unmanned aerial vehicle. For example, some methods include capturing, using an unmanned aerial vehicle, an overview image of a roof of a building from above the roof; presenting a suggested bounding polygon overlaid on the overview image to a user; determining a bounding polygon based on the suggested bounding polygon and user edits; based on the bounding polygon, determining a flight path including a sequence of poses of the unmanned aerial vehicle with respective fields of view at a fixed height that collectively cover the bounding polygon; fly the unmanned aerial vehicle to a sequence of scan poses with horizontal positions matching respective poses of the flight path and vertical positions determined to maintain a consistent distance above the roof; and scanning the roof from the sequence of scan poses to generate a three-dimensional map of the roof.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210125503A1 Roof Scan Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Public/Granted day:2021-04-29
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