Patent ID: 11945581
Assignee: nan
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B | IPC B  H

Claim 0:
1. A drone backpack for adding functionality to a drone having a forward-facing camera and controlled wirelessly from a remote controller, the drone backpack comprising:
a housing;
a harness that mechanically and removably couples the housing with a main body of the drone without modification to the drone;
a display module having a screen;
a boom coupled with the harness at a first end and coupled with the display module at a second end, the boom being aligned with the main body of the drone to position the screen within a field of view of the forward-facing camera when the harness is coupled with the drone;
a compute component located within the housing and communicatively coupled with the display module, the compute component comprising at least one processor and memory storing machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the display module to display information on the screen for capture by the forward-facing camera and inclusion in a live video feed transmitted by the drone;
a sensor for sensing a state of a controllable light of the drone to provide a first input of the compute component;
an effector communicatively coupled to an output of the compute component, wherein the memory further comprising machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to activate the effector in response to the first input, the effector comprising an IR blaster that emits a beam of IR light when activated;
a plurality of IR sensors positioned around the housing and electrically coupled to at least one second input of the compute component; and
the compute component further comprising machine-readable instructions stored in the memory, that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
compute game statistics in response to at least one of the first input and the at least one second input; and
display the game statistics on the display module.