US 11,892,859 B2
Remoteless control of drone behavior
David Meisenholder, Manhattan Beach, CA (US); and Steven Horowitz, Pacific Palisades, CA (US)
Assigned to Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/875,717.
Application 17/875,717 is a continuation of application No. 15/640,143, filed on Jun. 30, 2017, granted, now 11,404,056.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/357,231, filed on Jun. 30, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0047759 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G10L 15/25 (2013.01); G10L 17/00 (2013.01); G05D 1/12 (2006.01); G05D 1/10 (2006.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 15/24 (2013.01); B64U 101/00 (2023.01); B64U 101/30 (2023.01)
CPC G05D 1/12 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0016 (2013.01); G05D 1/102 (2013.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 15/24 (2013.01); G10L 15/25 (2013.01); G10L 17/00 (2013.01); B64U 2101/00 (2023.01); B64U 2101/30 (2023.01); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10032 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30252 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating an aerial drone having an onboard camera system, the method comprising:
via the onboard camera system, capturing a video stream of a scene that includes a human target subject;
performing automated facial recognition on the video stream to identify one or more facial features of the human target subject;
responsive to an operator command to capture an image of the scene, continuously monitoring a condition of one or more recognized facial features of the human target subject to determine satisfaction of one or more predefined image capture criteria by the one or more facial features of the human target subject;
responsive to determining that the one or facial features fails to satisfy the one or more image capture criteria, delaying image capture until the monitored facial feature condition satisfies the one or more image capture criteria; and
responsive to determining that the monitored condition of the one or more facial features satisfies the one or more predefined image capture criteria, automatically capturing a photographic image of the scene, thus providing autonomous timing of image capture based on the monitored facial feature condition of the target human subject.