Mobile Terminal Drone Image Reproduction via Flight Path Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current drone control systems do not effectively share flight path information along with captured images, making it difficult for users to replicate specific images, as they only share image data without corresponding flight path data.

Innovation Solution

A mobile terminal equipped with a wireless communication unit, memory, and a controller that collects location information and sensing data from a drone, allowing users to receive and store image data and flight path information, enabling the capture and sharing of specific images by controlling the drone's camera motion.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If only image data is shared from the drone without flight path information, then the data transmission is simple and quick, but users cannot capture identical images because flight path information is missing

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveflight path informationVSAvoiddata sharing system
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines image data and flight path information into a single integrated data package that is transmitted together from the drone to the mobile terminal. This merging ensures that both the visual content and the contextual flight data are available simultaneously, enabling users to replicate specific drone perspectives by analyzing the combined information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the shared data into distinct components: image data, flight path coordinates, camera motion information, and timestamp data. Each segment is processed and stored separately in the mobile terminal, allowing for efficient retrieval and analysis of specific elements like flight trajectory or camera angles when attempting to capture identical images.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Measurement precision

If detailed sensing data and flight path information are collected and stored, then users can precisely reproduce specific images, but the memory and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage reproduction accuracyVSAvoiddata storage volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential elements needed for image reproduction from the complete sensing data set. Specifically, it extracts flight path coordinates, camera motion parameters, and timestamp information, while storing the full high-resolution image data separately. This extraction approach provides sufficient information for replicating specific images without requiring storage of all raw sensing data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms complex sensing data into standardized parameter formats that are more efficient for storage and processing. Flight path information is converted to coordinate sequences, camera motion data is parameterized as rotation and translation values, and metadata is structured in standardized formats, reducing the overall data volume while maintaining reproduction accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP3079134B1Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same
Publication Date: 2019.12.11 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to transceive data with a drone via wireless communication; a display unit; a memory configured to store data received from the drone; a location information collecting unit configured to collect location information of the mobile terminal; and a controller configured to control the wireless communication unit to receive image data captured by a camera of the drone and sensing data corresponding to the drone and the camera of the drone, and obtain capturing information including flight information corresponding to a flight path of the drone and camera motion information corresponding to a motion of the camera of the drone based on the collected location information of the mobile terminal and the received sensing data.