Patent ID: 11861892
Assignee: SKYDIO, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 9:
10. A method of operating an aerial vehicle for autonomously tracking physical objects in a physical environment, the method comprising:
processing captured images of a physical environment to extract semantic information relating to one or more physical objects in the physical environment;
processing the semantic information to identify a particular class of physical objects relating to a particular one of the one or more physical objects;
identifying a motion model associated with the particular class of physical objects relating to the particular one of the one or more physical objects;
estimating, based on the captured images and the motion model, a predicted trajectory of the particular one of the one or more physical objects through three-dimensional (3D) space of the physical environment;
tracking an actual trajectory of the particular one of the one or more physical objects through the 3D space of the physical environment based, at least in part, on the predicted trajectory; and
continually updating a planned trajectory for the aerial vehicle through the physical environment that follows the tracked actual trajectory of the particular physical object instance.