Systems and methods for determining preferences for flight control settings of an unmanned aerial vehicle

• US 9,836,054 B1
• Filed: 05/19/2017
• Issued: 12/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
• Original Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
• Inventors: Lema, Pablo, Ip, Shu Ching
• Primary Examiner(s): Goldman, Richard
• Application Number:
  US15/600,158
• Time in Patent Office: 200 Days
• Field of Search: 701 1, 701 2, 701 25, 701467, 244175, 382103
• CPC Class Codes: B64C 39/024 of the remote controlled vehicle type, i.e. RPV
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 10/13 Flying platforms
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 10/14 with four distinct rotor axes, e.g. quadcopters
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 2101/30 for imaging, photography or videography
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 2201/10 autonomous, i.e. by navigating independently from ground or air stations, e.g. by using inertial navigation systems [INS]
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 2201/20 Remote controls
• CPC Class Codes: B64U 30/20 Rotors; Rotor supports
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0011 associated with a remote control arrangement
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0088 characterized by the autonomous decision making process, e.g. artificial intelligence, predefined behaviours using knowledge based models G06N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0094 involving pointing a payload, e.g. camera, weapon, sensor, towards a fixed or moving target
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/251 Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies details of learning user preferences for the retrieval of video data in a video database G06F16/739; computer systems using learning methods G06N3/08

Abstract

Consumption information associated with a user consuming video segments may be obtained. The consumption information may define user engagement during a video segment and/or user response to the video segment. Sets of flight control settings associated with capture of the video segments may be obtained. The flight control settings may define aspects of a flight control subsystem for the unmanned aerial vehicle and/or a sensor control subsystem for the unmanned aerial vehicle. The preferences for the flight control settings of the unmanned aerial vehicle may be determined based upon the first set and the second set of flight control settings. Instructions may be transmitted to the unmanned aerial vehicle. The instructions may include the determined preferences for the flight control settings and being configured to cause the unmanned aerial vehicle to adjust the flight control settings to the determined preferences.

Claims

1. A system for determining control settings for an unmanned aerial vehicle, the system comprising:

one or more physical computer processors configured by computer readable instructions to;

obtain first consumption information and second consumption information, the first consumption information characterizing user engagement during playback of a first video segment and/or user response to the playback of the first video segment and the second consumption information characterizing user engagement during playback of a second video segment and/or user response to the playback of the second video segment;

obtain a first set of control settings defining one or more aspects of capture of the first video segment based on the first consumption information and a second set of control settings defining one or more aspects of capture of the second video segment based on the second consumption information;

determine one or more flight control settings based upon the first set of control settings and the second set of control settings; and

effectuate transmission of instructions to the unmanned aerial vehicle, the instructions configured to cause the unmanned aerial vehicle to implement the one or more flight control settings.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first consumption information is associated with a consumption score, the consumption score quantifying a degree of interest of a user consuming the first video segment based upon the user engagement during the playback of the first video segment and/or the user response to the playback of the first video segment.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the user engagement during the playback of the first video segment includes at least one of an amount of time a user consumes the first video segment and a number of times the user consumes at least one portion of the first video segment.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the user response to the playback of the first video segment includes one or more of commenting on the first video segment, rating the first video segment, and/or sharing the first video segment.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more flight control settings include one or more of an altitude, a longitude, a latitude, a geographical location, a heading, and/or a speed of the unmanned aerial vehicle.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle includes a sensor configured to generate an output signal conveying visual information.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle is configured to implement the one or more flight control settings by controlling the sensor through adjustments of one or more of an aperture timing, an exposure, a focal length, an angle of view, a depth of field, a focus, a light metering, a white balance, a resolution, a frame rate, an object of focus, a capture angle, a zoom parameter, a video format, a sound parameter, and/or a compression parameter.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions are configured to cause the unmanned aerial vehicle to implement the one or more flight control settings based upon current contextual information that characterizes one or more current temporal attributes and/or current spatial attributes associated with the unmanned aerial vehicle.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more current temporal attributes and/or current spatial attributes include one or more of a geolocation attribute, a time attribute, a date attribute, and/or a content attribute.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein a remote controller is configured to override the one or more flight control settings of the unmanned aerial vehicle.

11. A method for determining control settings for an unmanned aerial vehicle, the method performed by a computing system including one or more physical processors, the method comprising:

obtaining, by the computing system, first consumption information and second consumption information, the first consumption information characterizing user engagement during playback of a first video segment and/or user response to the playback of the first video segment and the second consumption information characterizing user engagement during playback of a second video segment and/or user response to the playback of the second video segment;

obtaining, by the computing system, a first set of control settings defining one or more aspects of capture of the first video segment based on the first consumption information and a second set of control settings defining one or more aspects of capture of the second video segment based on the second consumption information;

determining, by the computing system, one or more flight control settings based upon the first set of control settings and the second set of control settings; and

effectuating, by the computing system, transmission of instructions to the unmanned aerial vehicle, the instructions configured to cause the unmanned aerial vehicle to implement the one or more flight control settings.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first consumption information is associated with a consumption score, the consumption score quantifying a degree of interest of a user consuming the first video segment based upon the user engagement during the playback of the first video segment and/or the user response to the playback of the first video segment.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the user engagement during the playback of the first video segment includes at least one of an amount of time a user consumes the first video segment and a number of times the user consumes at least one portion of the first video segment.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the user response to the playback of the first video segment includes one or more of commenting on the first video segment, rating the first video segment, and/or sharing the first video segment.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more flight control settings include one or more of an altitude, a longitude, a latitude, a geographical location, a heading, and/or a speed of the unmanned aerial vehicle.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle includes a sensor configured to generate an output signal conveying visual information.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the unmanned aerial vehicle is configured to implement the one or more flight control settings by controlling the sensor through adjustments of one or more of an aperture timing, an exposure, a focal length, an angle of view, a depth of field, a focus, a light metering, a white balance, a resolution, a frame rate, an object of focus, a capture angle, a zoom parameter, a video format, a sound parameter, and/or a compression parameter.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the instructions are configured to cause the unmanned aerial vehicle to implement the one or more flight control settings based upon current contextual information that characterizes one or more current temporal attributes and/or current spatial attributes associated with the unmanned aerial vehicle.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the one or more current temporal attributes and/or current spatial attributes include one or more of a geolocation attribute, a time attribute, a date attribute, and/or a content attribute.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein a remote controller is configured to override the one or more flight control settings of the unmanned aerial vehicle.