UNMANNED AIR VEHICLE SYSTEM

• US 20180025518A1
• Filed: 02/06/2017
• Published: 01/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: HORIE, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US15/425,373
• Publication Number:
  US 20180025518A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 39/024 of the remote controlled vehicle type, i.e. RPV
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 47/08 Arrangements of cameras
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 10/14 with four distinct rotor axes, e.g. quadcopters
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 10/17 Helicopters flying platforms B64U10/13
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 2201/20 Remote controls
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 30/20 Rotors; Rotor supports
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0038 by providing the operator with simple or augmented images from one or more cameras located onboard the vehicle, e.g. tele-operation images analyzed by a computer and used for automatic navigation G05D1/0246
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/147 Details of sensors, e.g. sensor lenses fingerprint or palmprint sensors G06V40/13; vascular sensors G06V40/145; eye sensors G06V40/19
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/25 Determination of region of interest [ROI] or a volume of interest [VOI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/13 Satellite images
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/17 taken from planes or by drones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/185 from a mobile camera, e.g. for remote control

Abstract

An unmanned air vehicle system includes an unmanned air vehicle including a camera unit, a pilot terminal capable of piloting the unmanned air vehicle, and a display that displays images captured by the camera unit. The camera unit includes a first camera that captures a first image and a second camera that captures a second image. An angle of view of the first camera is narrower than an angle of view of the second camera.

Claims

1. An unmanned air vehicle system comprising:

an unmanned air vehicle including a camera unit;

a pilot terminal capable of piloting the unmanned air vehicle; and

a display that displays an image captured by the camera unit,

wherein the camera unit includes a first camera that captures a first image and a second camera that captures a second image, and

an angle of view of the first camera is narrower than an angle of view of the second camera.

2. The unmanned air vehicle system according to claim 1, wherein the display displays an image in which the first image and the second image are superimposed.

3. The unmanned air vehicle system according to claim 1, wherein the display displays an image in which the second image and a region frame corresponding to a region of the first image inside the second image are superimposed.

4. The unmanned air vehicle system according to claim 2, wherein the display further displays a region frame corresponding to a region of the first image superimposed inside the second image.

5. The unmanned air vehicle system according to claim 2, wherein the display displays the image in which the second image is superimposed inside the first image.

6. The unmanned air vehicle system according to claim 5, wherein the display changes at least one of a size of the second image and a position at which the second image is displayed inside the first image to perform display.

7. The unmanned air vehicle system according to claim 4, further comprising:

an image processor that performs a superimposition process for superimposing the first image and the second image, and generates the region frame; and

a controller that causes the display to display a superimposed image obtained by the superimposition process, the controller superimposing the region frame inside the second image of the superimposed image.

8. The unmanned air vehicle system according to claim 3, wherein

a lens of the first camera is interchangeable with another lens, and

the display changes a size of the region frame according to a focal length of the lens attached to the first camera to perform display.

9. The unmanned air vehicle system according to claim 3, wherein the display switches between the image in which the second image and the region frame corresponding to the region of the first image inside the second image are superimposed, and an image including the first image.