Patent ID: 11943568
Assignee: nan
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  G | IPC B  G  H

Claim 17:
18. A method for facilitating a virtual visit to a gravesite comprising:
providing a drone comprising a video camera, a microphone, and a speaker and a control system associated with a cemetery, the control system comprising one or more processors and is operatively coupled with one or more telecommunication channels;
receiving, at the control system, from a computing device associated with a user, a request for a virtual visit to a gravesite;
calculating, using the control system and details of a deceased individual of the gravesite, a travel path for the drone to the gravesite from a base station or other location;
initiating autonomous travel by the drone from the base station or other location along the travel path to the gravesite;
confirming, using the control system, arrival of the drone at the gravesite;
while at the gravesite, receiving at one of the base station or the control system over the one or more telecommunication channels, video and audio of the gravesite from the camera and microphone of the drone;
while at the gravesite, transmitting the video and audio of the gravesite to the computing device associated with the user using the one or more telecommunication channels;
receiving, at the control system, user audio from the computing device associated with the user;
sending, using the control station, the user audio to the drone using the one or more telecommunication channels;
playing the user audio using the speaker of the drone at the gravesite; and
returning the drone to the base station.