Patent ID: 11892859
Assignee: SNAP INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 12:
13. A personal aerial drone comprising:
a drone body carrying flight systems for controlled flight of the drone;
an onboard camera system carried by the drone body;
a controller comprising one or more computer processor devices configured to perform operations comprising:
via the onboard camera system, capturing a video stream of a scene that includes a human target subject;
performing automated facial recognition on the video stream to identify one or more facial features of the human target subject;
responsive to an operator command to capture an image of the scene, continuously monitoring a condition of one or more recognized facial features of the human target subject to determine satisfaction of one or more predefined image capture criteria by the one or more facial features of the human target subject;
responsive to determining that the one or facial features fails to satisfy the one or more image capture criteria, delaying image capture until the monitored facial feature condition satisfies the one or more image capture criteria; and
responsive to determining that the monitored condition of the one or more facial features satisfies the one or more predefined image capture criteria, automatically capturing a photographic image of the scene, thus providing autonomous timing of image capture based on the monitored facial feature condition of the target human subject.