US 12,105,530 B2
Information processing apparatus and method
Ai Miyata, Okazaki (JP); Yurika Tanaka, Yokosuka (JP); Hideo Hasegawa, Nagoya (JP); Hiroyuki Suzuki, Miyoshi (JP); Katsuhiro Ohara, Nagoya (JP); and Tomoya Makino, Kariya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/488,946.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-166541 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0100211 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. B64C 39/02 (2023.01); B64D 47/08 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2024.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 101/30 (2023.01)
CPC G05D 1/106 (2019.05) [B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64D 47/08 (2013.01); G06V 20/176 (2022.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 2101/30 (2023.01); B64U 2201/00 (2023.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a communication interface configured to communicate with a first unmanned aircraft having a first camera to be used for detecting an obstacle and a second unmanned aircraft having a second camera to be used for detecting an obstacle with higher detection accuracy than the first camera; and
a controller configured to determine, based on position information for first obstacles, a second area in which a density of first obstacles is equal to or greater than a reference value, determine a flight path along which the first unmanned aircraft travels to a destination, detect, in a case that a target point in the second area is present on the flight path, a second obstacle at the target point using the second unmanned aircraft before the first unmanned aircraft begins traveling to the destination, the second obstacle being less visible than the first obstacle and present in the vicinity of the first obstacle, modify the flight path using information regarding the detected second obstacle so that the first unmanned aircraft navigates around the second obstacle, and notify the first unmanned aircraft of the modified flight path to cause the first unmanned aircraft to begin traveling to the destination along the modified flight path.