Patent ID: 9511858
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: B64C,B64D,G01C,G05D

Claim Text:
1. An unmanned aircraft system, comprising: an aircraft including a wing having an upper surface and a lower surface defining an upright orientation for normal aircraft flight and an inverted orientation for inverted flight, the upper surface being gravitationally above the lower surface while in the upright orientation, and the lower surface being gravitationally above the upper surface while in the inverted orientation; a remote-control station; a remote-control control system configured for a user to remotely control the flight of the aircraft using the remote-control station; a first camera oriented to view downward and forward while the aircraft is in the upright orientation; and a second camera oriented to view downward and forward while the aircraft is in the inverted orientation; wherein the remote-control station is provided with an auto-land function that instructs the control system to operate the control surfaces such that the aircraft conducts an inverting maneuver in which the aircraft rotates from the upright orientation to the inverted orientation; and wherein the control system is configured to relay images from the first camera to the remote-control station while the aircraft is in the upright orientation, and to relay images from the second camera to the remote-control station while the aircraft is in the inverted orientation, and wherein the remote-control station is configured to display the relayed images from the first camera to the user during flight in the upright orientation, and is further configured to display the relayed images from the second camera to the user during flight in the inverted orientation.