US 12,103,679 B2
Information processing apparatus
Tomoe Ushiro, Tokyo (JP); Naoki Kameyama, Tokyo (JP); Yuichiro Segawa, Tokyo (JP); and Yasuhiro Kitamura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/617,646
Filed by NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jun. 16, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/023547
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/262105, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-120211 (JP), filed on Jun. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0242559 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. B64C 39/02 (2023.01); B64C 19/02 (2006.01); B64D 47/02 (2006.01); B64D 47/08 (2006.01); E01C 23/01 (2006.01); G01C 7/04 (2006.01); G03B 15/03 (2021.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B64C 39/02 (2013.01) [B64C 19/02 (2013.01); B64D 47/02 (2013.01); B64D 47/08 (2013.01); E01C 23/01 (2013.01); G01C 7/04 (2013.01); G03B 15/03 (2013.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a control unit that acquires a weather forecast for an inspection day of a road, and controls, in accordance with a position of the sun and an amount of sunlight estimated from the weather forecast, a first flying vehicle and a second flying vehicle, the first flying vehicle capturing an image of a surface of the road, the second flying vehicle emitting light onto the surface, such that a spot where a level difference is estimated, in advance, to occur on the surface, an image capturing direction in which the first flying vehicle captures an image of the spot, and a light emitting direction in which the second flying vehicle or the sun emits the light onto the spot have a relationship that causes, when the level difference exists, a shadow to occur at the spot and the shadow to be captured;
wherein the control unit controls, when sunlight is at a predetermined amount or more, the first flying vehicle such that the spot, the image capturing direction in which the first flying vehicle captures the image of the spot, and a sunlight direction at the spot have a relationship that causes, when the level difference exists, a shadow to occur at the spot and the shadow to be captured; and
the control unit controls, when the sunlight is at the predetermined amount or more, and control fails to be performed such that the spot, the image capturing direction in which the first flying vehicle captures the image of the spot, and the sunlight direction at the spot have the relationship that causes, when the level difference exists, the shadow to occur at the spot and the shadow to be captured, or when the sunlight is at less than the predetermined amount, the first flying vehicle and the second flying vehicle such that the spot, the image capturing direction in which the first flying vehicle captures the image of the spot, and the light emitting direction in which the second flying vehicle emits the light onto the spot have the relationship that causes, when the level difference exists, the shadow to be occur at the spot and the shadow to be captured.