US 11,730,086 B2
Unmanned aerial vehicle
Kaoru Umeya, Kawaguchi (JP)
Assigned to M Line System Co., Ltd., Saitama (JP)
Appl. No. 17/754,346
Filed by M Line System Co., Ltd., Kawaguchi (JP)
PCT Filed Jan. 11, 2022, PCT No. PCT/JP2022/000544
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 30, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/168536, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 11, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-017340 (JP), filed on Feb. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0394931 A1, Dec. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. A01G 3/08 (2006.01); A01G 3/02 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2023.01); G05D 1/10 (2006.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01); G06T 7/55 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/17 (2022.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); B64U 10/10 (2023.01); B64U 30/20 (2023.01); B64U 101/30 (2023.01); B64U 101/40 (2023.01)
CPC A01G 3/08 (2013.01) [A01G 3/02 (2013.01); A01G 3/085 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06T 7/55 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06V 10/82 (2022.01); G06V 20/17 (2022.01); G06V 20/188 (2022.01); B64U 10/10 (2023.01); B64U 30/20 (2023.01); B64U 2101/30 (2023.01); B64U 2101/40 (2023.01); G06T 2207/10032 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30188 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
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1. An unmanned aerial vehicle comprising:
a central processing unit;
a non-transitional computer readable storage medium storing computer readable program instructions to control a flight state of the unmanned aerial vehicle and a pruning state of the unmanned aerial vehicle;
a pruning structure capable of pruning a tree;
a housing structure capable of housing the pruning structure inside;
wherein, when the computer readable program instructions are executed by the central processing unit:
the flight state of the unmanned aerial vehicle is controlled by a flight state control section;
the pruning state is controlled by a pruning state control section that controls the state of the pruning structure between a housed state in which the pruning structure is housed inside the housing structure and an exposed state in which the pruning structure is exposed to the outside of the housing structure; and,
the pruning state control section controls the state of the pruning structure to the housed state during landing processes.
 
3. An unmanned aerial vehicle comprising:
a central processing unit;
a non-transitional computer readable storage medium storing computer readable program instructions to control a flight state of the unmanned aerial vehicle and a pruning state of the unmanned aerial vehicle;
a pruning structure adapted to prune a tree;
a housing structure adapted to house the pruning structure inside;
wherein, when the computer readable program instructions are executed by the central processing unit:
the flight state of the unmanned aerial vehicle is controlled by a flight state control section; and,
the pruning state is controlled by a pruning state control section that controls the state of the pruning structure between a housed state in which the pruning structure is housed inside the housing structure and an exposed state in which the pruning structure is exposed to the outside of the housing structure,
wherein the pruning state control section controls the state of the pruning structure to the housed state during landing processes; and,
wherein the pruning state control section controls the state of the pruning structure to the wherein the pruning state control section controls the state of the pruning structure to the housed state when a strength of an externally received control signal related to the control of the unmanned aerial vehicle is weaker than a predetermined strength and the flight state control section controls the flight state of the unmanned aerial vehicle to a landing position when the pruning structure is housed inside the housing structure.