Patent ID: 7672480

Claim:
A method for formation, on a display stationed at a fixed post, of successive images of a scene towards which a flying body is moving while rotating about its longitudinal axis, said flying body communicating with said fixed post by virtue of a communication link, a picture-taking apparatus being fixed rigidly to the front of said flying body, in such a way that said apparatus turns with said flying body about said longitudinal axis, said method: taking with said apparatus, during each revolution of the rotation of said flying body about said longitudinal axis, several pictures of said scene each corresponding to a predetermined angular position of said flying body about said longitudinal axis, so that contours of said several pictures are inclined in mutually differing manners and so that, in each picture, the image of said scene and said contour occupy a relative position which depends on said corresponding predetermined angular position of said flying body and which is different from that of the other pictures; determining, among said pictures, a reference picture in which said relative position between the image of the scene and the contour is considered to be a relative reference position; applying in each picture, other than the reference picture, a geometrical image transformation processing to the image of said scene so that the relative position of the transformed image of said scene with respect to the contour is similar to said relative reference position; and displaying said reference picture and said pictures having undergone said geometrical image transformation processing successively on said display, wherein: the rotation of the flying body is initiated at the moment of its launching.