REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE, E.G. FOR REMOTE CONTROL OF A DRONE

    公开(公告)号:US20190287387A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-19

    申请号:US16298919

    申请日:2019-03-11

    Applicant: PARROT DRONES

    Abstract: A remote control device includes a main body and a support assembly configured to receive a mobile electronic device removably and to hold it, the support assembly having a storage configuration and a usage configuration making it possible to receive the mobile electronic device, the remote control device being configured such that the passage from the storage configuration to the usage configuration controls the powering on of the remote control device.

    Autonomous system for taking moving images from a drone, with target tracking and improved target location

    公开(公告)号:US10322819B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-18

    申请号:US15657145

    申请日:2017-07-22

    Applicant: PARROT DRONES

    Abstract: The displacements of the drone are defined by piloting commands to take moving images of a target carrying the ground station. The system comprises means for adjusting the sight angle of the camera during the displacements of the drone and of the target, so that the images are centerd to the target, and means for generating flying instructions so that the distance between drone and target fulfills determined rules, these means being based on a determination of the GPS geographical position of the target with respect to the GPS geographical position of the drone, and of the angular position of the target with respect to a main axis of the drone. These means are also based on the analysis of a non-geographical signal produced by the target and received by the drone. The system allows freeing from the uncertainty of the GPS systems equipping this type of device.

    Rotary Wing Drone Comprising a Collapsible Drone Structure

    公开(公告)号:US20190071178A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-07

    申请号:US16125391

    申请日:2018-09-07

    Applicant: Parrot Drones

    Inventor: Christine Caubel

    Abstract: The rotary wing drone comprises at least one rotor carried by a drone structure, wherein the drone structure comprises a drone body and at least one group of arms comprising a plurality of arms rotatably mounted on the drone body about the same axis of rotation, between a deployed position for flight and a folded position for transport.

    Drone piloting device adapted to hold piloting commands and associated control method

    公开(公告)号:US10222792B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-05

    申请号:US15293772

    申请日:2016-10-14

    Applicant: PARROT DRONES

    Inventor: Martin Line

    Abstract: A device (15) for piloting a drone (10) comprising a touch screen (18) displaying a touch-sensitive area, means for detecting signals emitted by the touch-sensitive area, and means for transforming said detected signals into piloting commands and transmitting said commands to the drone. The device comprises control means, controlled by the touch-sensitive area forming activation/deactivation button, to make the drone piloting mode alternately switch between a mode of activation of the system for holding the last detected commands, mode in which said piloting commands transmitted to the drone result from the transformation of the last detected signals before the switching to the activation mode, and a mode of deactivation of the system for holding the last detected commands, mode in which said piloting commands transmitted to the drone result from the transformation of the current detected signals. The invention also relates to an associated method for controlling a drone.

    Electronic device and method for estimating a displacement of a scene observed by a drone, electronic apparatus for calculating a ground speed of the drone, related drone and computer program

    公开(公告)号:US20190033336A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-31

    申请号:US16043942

    申请日:2018-07-24

    Applicant: PARROT DRONES

    Inventor: Fabien Remond

    Abstract: A electronic device for estimating a displacement of a scene observed by an image sensor equipping a drone comprises a first module for acquiring a series of images of the scene, taken by the image sensor, and a module for estimating, via an optical flow algorithm applied iteratively at several successive levels, a displacement of the scene between an acquired prior image and current image, the level of the image being a sub-sampled image of the image of the following level, the final level being the acquired image. The estimating module calculates at least one estimate of the displacement of the scene at each level, the prior image being translated by an estimated displacement, during the passage from one level to the next. The estimating module is further configured to determine integer rounding of the estimated displacement, the prior image then being translated by the rounded displacement, during the passage from one respective level to the next.

    Drone including advance means for compensating the bias of the inertial unit as a function of the temperature

    公开(公告)号:US10191080B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-29

    申请号:US15176094

    申请日:2016-06-07

    Applicant: PARROT DRONES

    Abstract: The inertial unit, IMU, of the drone is mounted on a main circuit board. The IMU (26) includes an internal temperature sensor delivering a chip temperature signal (θ°chip). A heating component (36) is mounted on the circuit board near the IMU, and it is provided a thermal guide, incorporated to the circuit board, extending between the heating component and the IMU so as to allow a transfer to the IMU of the heat produced by the heating component. This thermal guide may in particular be a metal planar layer incorporated to the board, in particular a ground plane. A thermal regulation circuit (44-62) receives as an input the chip temperature signal (θchip) and a set-point temperature signal (θ°ref), and delivers a piloting signal (TH_PWM) of the heating component, so as to control the heat supply to the IMU. It is in particular possible to use this fast increase in temperature to perform a complete calibration of the IMU in a few minutes.

    High-resolution camera unit for a drone, with correction of the wobble-type distortions

    公开(公告)号:US10122949B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-06

    申请号:US15188441

    申请日:2016-06-21

    Applicant: PARROT DRONES

    Inventor: Eng Hong Sron

    Abstract: This camera unit (14) comprises a high-resolution rolling shutter camera (16) and one or several low-resolution global shutter cameras (18), for example monochromic spectral cameras. All the cameras are oriented in the same direction and are able to be triggered together to collect simultaneously a high-resolution image (I0) and at least one low-resolution image (I1-I4) of a same scene viewed by the drone. Image processing means (22) determine the distortions of the wobble type present in the high-resolution image and absent from the low-resolution images, and combine the high-resolution image (I0) and the low-resolution images (I1-I4) to deliver as an output a high-resolution image (I′0) corrected for these distortions.

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