UAV Reconnaissance UI for Visual Flight Path Selection

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative Solutions
Generate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods lack a user-friendly interface for setting the flight path and reconnaissance space of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which hinders intuitive operation and user convenience.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device with a user interface (UI) that allows users to intuitively set the flight path and reconnaissance space of UAVs, featuring pre-defined patterns and customizable options, enabling users to select and visualize flight paths and spaces in an intuitive image form, with automatic identification of reconnaissance targets and recommended flight paths based on object recognition and user preferences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If traditional control methods are used for UAV flight path setting, then the system maintains basic functionality, but user convenience and operational intuitiveness deteriorate due to lack of user-friendly interface

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidinterface complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses image information (visual copies) to represent flight space and flight path settings. Instead of complex numerical parameters or technical controls, the system displays graphical representations where users can visually select and adjust flight parameters, making the interface intuitive and easy to operate while maintaining full functional control over the UAV.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Measurement precision

If detailed flight path parameters are provided for precise UAV control, then measurement precision improves, but ease of operation deteriorates due to complexity in setting and visualizing flight parameters

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveflight path precisionVSAvoidparameter setting ease
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transforms complex flight path parameters into two-dimensional image information that can be visually displayed and manipulated. By representing three-dimensional flight space and path parameters as graphical elements on a display device, users can intuitively understand and adjust precise flight parameters without dealing with complex numerical data, thus maintaining measurement precision while improving ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentEP3659329B1Electronic device and control method thereof
Publication Date: 2023.12.06 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
  • EP3659329B1 patent drawingFigure 1~2
  • EP3659329B1 patent drawingFigure 3a~3b
  • EP3659329B1 patent drawingFigure 4

AI summary

Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device includes a display and a processor to provide a first UI for setting a reconnaissance target of an unmanned aerial vehicle, and based on the reconnaissance target being selected through the first UI, control the display to provide a second UI for selecting a flight path for reconnoitering the reconnaissance target, and the second UI includes image information regarding each of different flight paths for reconnoitering the reconnaissance target.