Have this article read to you at https://youtu.be/nlJpdNqSXe0 Let’s say you’ve got some basketball skills, but could use improvement. The coach yells at you as you try, but you aren’t getting better. Drones to the rescue. This invention films your hands as you throw the ball. The drone captures your entire movement, which you can […]
Have this article read to you at https://youtu.be/_Mt6xyWRlUg In a race to optimize inspection, Skydio has introduced software to help an operator get the most data in the least amount of time. Suppose you have a chimney repair company, and need to give the customer an exact estimate. You launch your drone above the house, […]
It is no secret that human eyes have to watch hours upon hours of video footage to catch a glimmer of game-changing data. It’s a mundane, inefficient activity, performed by people with sophisticated technical skills who could be doing better things. If there was only a way to isolate just the important video of bad […]
With more drone surveillance comes more privacy issues. This patent application tries to mitigate the deleterious consequences to balance out the benefits and convenience of this new technology. Just like Google Maps fuzzes out faces and license plates, this invention aims to block out irrelevant data from surveillance footage taken not only by drones, but […]
In the world of UAV surveillance, the running joke is that the average operator chair has absorbed 17,000 farts. This punishment is a testament to the amount of man hours watching video screens with nothing happening, just to find the proverbial needle in the haystack. What if there is a better way, to have a […]
Helping automate airborne law enforcement, Palo Alto Research Center has secured a patent to catch speeders using drones. The invention resides in an algorithm called Point-Motion-Pairs (PMP) that establishes reference points on an automobile, calculates their rate of change, and snaps a photo of the license plate. This invention can be used not only on […]