System for remote control of a model airplane

• US 6,315,667 B1
• Filed: 03/28/2000
• Issued: 11/13/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert Steinhart
• Original Assignee: Robert Steinhart
• Inventors: Steinhart, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): SAGER, MARK ALAN
• Application Number:
  US09/537,900
• Time in Patent Office: 595 Days
• Field of Search: 463/39, 463/36, 463/30, 434/29-30, 434/33, 434/43, 434/60-62, 434/307.R, 701/1-2, 701/19, 701/21-22, 340/825.72, 455/66, 455/344-345, 455/352, 273/148.B, 273/148.R
• US Class Current: 463/39
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 30/04 using wireless transmission

Abstract

A system for remote control of a model airplane or similar by an operator has the following characteristics: an image-capturing device which is fitted to the model airplane; a device which is visible to the operator, to display the image information which is captured by the image-capturing device; a device to transmit the image information which is captured by the image-capturing device to the display device; and a device for remote control of the model airplane or similar by the operator.

Claims

1. A system for remote control of a model (1) by an operator (5), with the following characteristics:

1.1 an image-capturing device (2) which is fitted to the model (1),

1.2 a device (4), which is visible to the operator (5), to display the image information which is captured by the image-capturing device (2),

1.3 a device (3) to transmit the image information which is captured by the image-capturing device (2) to the display device (4),

1.4 a device (14) for remote control of the model (1) by the operator (5).

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

a device (11) for remote control of the imagecapturing device (2) by the operator (5) is provided.

3. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein

the device (11) for remote control of the image-capturing device (2) is fitted in or on a device (9) which is fitted to the head (10) of the operator (5).

4. The system as claimed in claim 3, wherein

sensors (12), by which the image-capturing device (2) can be controlled remotely by movements of the head (10) of the operator (5), are fitted to the device (9) which is fitted to the head (10) of the operator (5).

5. The system as claimed in claim 3, wherein

the device (4) to display the image information which is captured by the image-capturing device (2) is fitted to the device (9) which is fitted to the head (10) of the operator (5).

6. The system as claimed in claim 3, wherein

the device which is fitted to the head (10) of the operator (5) is a data helmet (9).

7. The system as claimed in claim 6, wherein

the display device (4) has at least one screen which is fitted to the data helmet (9).

8. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the image-capturing device (2) is a video camera.

9. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the device (14) for remote control of the model airplane (1) has sensors (15) which are fitted to at least one of the limbs (13) of the operator (5).

10. The system as claimed in claim 9, wherein

the sensors (15) are fitted to the arms (13a) of the operator (5).

11. The system as claimed in claim 9, wherein

the sensors (15) have gas bubbles (17) in a closed mass of liquid (16).

12. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the transmission device (3) has two data processing devices (7, 8), of which one data processing device (7) is fitted to the model (1) and the other data processing device (8) is fitted to the operator (5).

13. The system as claimed in claim 12, wherein

the image information is transmitted from one data processing device (7) to the other data processing device (8) by radio.

14. The system as claimed in claim 12, wherein

the image information is transmitted from one data processing device (7) to the other data processing device (8) by a mobile telephone.

15. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the transmission device (3) has an image data converter (6).

16. The system as claimed in claim 15, wherein

the image data converter (6) is fitted to the model airplane (1).

17. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the remote control of the model (1) by the remote control device (14) is by radio.

18. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the remote control of the model (1) by the remote control device (14) is by a mobile telephone.

19. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein

the remote control of the image-capturing device (2) by the remote control device (11) is by radio.

20. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein

the remote control of the image-capturing device (2) by the remote control device (11) is by a mobile telephone.