US 11,884,418 B2
Control device, control method, and flight vehicle device
Kohtaro Sabe, Tokyo (JP); Kayoko Tanaka, Tokyo (JP); Kousuke Suzuki, Tokyo (JP); Masaaki Masuda, Tokyo (JP); Takekazu Kakinuma, Tokyo (JP); and Kazunori Hayashi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/986,928.
Application 17/986,928 is a continuation of application No. 15/993,052, filed on May 30, 2018, granted, now 11,530,050.
Application 15/993,052 is a continuation of application No. 15/510,407, granted, now 10,011,371, issued on Jul. 3, 2018, previously published as PCT/JP2015/073674, filed on Aug. 24, 2015.
Claims priority of application No. 2014-212657 (JP), filed on Oct. 17, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2023/0070563 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. B64D 47/02 (2006.01); B64D 47/08 (2006.01); G03B 15/03 (2021.01); G03B 15/02 (2021.01); G03B 1/00 (2021.01); G03B 15/00 (2021.01); G03B 17/56 (2021.01); G03B 15/05 (2021.01); G03B 7/093 (2021.01); H05B 45/12 (2020.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); H04N 23/60 (2023.01); H04N 23/74 (2023.01); B64C 39/02 (2023.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 30/20 (2023.01); B64U 101/30 (2023.01); B64C 27/08 (2023.01); G03B 17/00 (2021.01)
CPC B64D 47/02 (2013.01) [B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64D 47/08 (2013.01); G03B 7/093 (2013.01); G03B 15/00 (2013.01); G03B 15/006 (2013.01); G03B 15/02 (2013.01); G03B 15/03 (2013.01); G03B 15/05 (2013.01); G03B 17/00 (2013.01); G03B 17/56 (2013.01); G05D 1/0094 (2013.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); H04N 23/60 (2023.01); H04N 23/64 (2023.01); H04N 23/74 (2023.01); H05B 45/12 (2020.01); B64C 27/08 (2013.01); B64D 2203/00 (2013.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 30/20 (2023.01); B64U 2101/30 (2023.01); B64U 2201/104 (2023.01); B64U 2201/20 (2023.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control device, comprising:
a processing circuit configured to:
control a flight of a flight vehicle device in accordance with flight information including at least flight path information of the flight vehicle device, the flight vehicle device including an imaging device to acquire an image of a target, wherein the flight information is generated based on a flight time of the flight vehicle device;
acquire, using a sensor, state information of the flight vehicle device;
control the flight vehicle device to maintain the imaging device at a predetermined distance from the target at a plurality of imaging points, including control a movement speed of the flight vehicle device according to a predetermined position with respect to the target;
control the imaging device to acquire the image of the target at the plurality of imaging points while at the predetermined distance from the target; and
control the imaging device to acquire the image of the target at the plurality of imaging points by changing shooting conditions for the target based on the state information.