公开(公告)号：US20200148320A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-14

申请号：US16742908

申请日：2020-01-14

Applicant: Gancho Mitev Mitev

Inventor： Gancho Mitev Mitev

IPC: B63C9/08 ,  G05D1/02 ,  B63H1/14 ,  B63H19/00 ,  H04M1/725

Abstract: An autonomous lifebuoy includes a body, an electric power supply, a propelling module and a control unit configured to control the autonomous lifebuoy so as to automatically guide the autonomous lifebuoy towards a person overboard in water, during a man overboard (MOB) situation. The control unit includes at least one communication module, a graphics processing unit (GPU) for comparing pre-recorded images of the autonomous lifebuoy itself and a person overboard, pre-recorded in non-volatile memory, with images received, by way of the at least one communication module, from at least one of a local area network (LAN), a camera and a smartphone camera, each in proximity of the autonomous lifebuoy and a microcomputer for making calculations, based on at least the image comparison of the graphics processing unit (GPU), and issue commands to at least the propelling module to propel the autonomous lifebuoy towards the person overboard in the water.

公开(公告)号：US11518485B2

公开(公告)日：2022-12-06

申请号：US16742908

申请日：2020-01-14

Applicant: Gancho Mitev Mitev

Inventor： Gancho Mitev Mitev

IPC: B63C9/08 ,  B63H1/14 ,  B63H19/00 ,  G05D1/02 ,  H04M1/72412 ,  H04M1/72421

Abstract: An autonomous lifebuoy includes a body, an electric power supply, a propelling module and a control unit configured to control the autonomous lifebuoy so as to automatically guide the autonomous lifebuoy towards a person overboard in water, during a man overboard (MOB) situation. The control unit includes at least one communication module, a non-volatile memory, a graphics processing unit (GPU) configured to perform an image comparison and a microcomputer configured to make calculations, based on at least the image comparison performed by the graphics processing unit (GPU), and issue commands to at least the propelling module to propel the autonomous lifebuoy towards the person overboard in the water during the man overboard (MOB) situation.