Patent ID: 9579586
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: A63F,A63H,G05D,G06F,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A remote controlled vehicle system, comprising a remote vehicle with an on-board camera and a handheld computer comprising a microprocessor, a visual display and one or more sensors, configured to, while the visual display is oriented in a person's hand(s) such that a horizontal line of sight of the person aligns more closely with the z-axis of the visual display than with the y-axis of the visual display: a. generate a signal to display video from the remote vehicle's camera; b. generate a signal to control the movement of the remote vehicle; c. generate a signal to establish an orientation of the remote vehicle's camera; d. generate a signal to update the location of the remote vehicle along the axis of the orientation of the remote vehicle's camera using x-axisometer data from at least one of the sensors indicating pivot down or pivot up of the handheld computer and an x-axisometer sensor reference data, wherein said use of x-axisometer sensor data to update the location of the remote vehicle is effectively decoupled from use of v-axisometer sensor data, thereby enabling v-axisometer sensor data of the handheld computer to be used independently of x-axisometer sensor data of the handheld computer to update the orientation of the remote vehicle's camera; and e. generate a signal to update the orientation of the remote vehicle's camera using v-axisometer data from at least one of the sensors indicating pivot left or pivot right of the handheld computer and a v-axisometer sensor reference data, wherein said use of v-axisometer sensor data to update the orientation of the remote vehicle's camera is effectively decoupled from use of x-axisometer sensor data, thereby enabling x-axisometer sensor data of the handheld computer to be used independently of v-axisometer sensor data of the handheld computer to update the location of the remote vehicle.