PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16256730
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["701", "002000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a method and system for flying rotary wing drone. An add-on flight camera that is free to rotate around the vehicle's yaw axis is attached to the drone. The flight camera is automatically looking in the direction of its flight. The video from the flight camera is streamed to the operator's display. Thus the rotary wing drone can fly in any direction with respect to its structure, giving the operator a first person view along the flight path, thus keeping high level of situational awareness to the operator. The information required for controlling the camera orientation is derived from sensors, such as GPS, magnetometers, gyros and accelerometer. As a backup mode the information can be derived from propeller commands or tilt sensors.

Claim (Index 4):
A rotary wing drone comprising:\n a. a first and second single-elevation camera pedestals, each attached without a mast to the drone, wherein the first pedestal can rotate in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction; b. a first camera attached to the first camera pedestal, wherein the first camera streams to the drone's operator first-person-view video in the direction of the drone's flight, regardless of the drone's yaw; c. a second camera attached to the second camera pedestal; d. a processing unit that computes an angle of rotation for each pedestal, wherein angle \u03a8 is the in the direction of the drone's flight regardless of the drone's yaw; e. a pedestal servo controller for controlling each angle of rotation, wherein while the first video camera is pointed at angle \u03a8, the second video camera is simultaneously:\n i. pointed at a fixed angle relative to the drone; or \n ii. tracks a specific location; \n f. a first pedestal motor in communication with the pedestal servo controller for rotating the first camera and a second pedestal motor in communication with the pedestal servo controller for rotating the second camera, wherein the first pedestal motor turns the camera pedestal to angle \u03a8 and the second pedestal motor turns the camera pedestal to either the fixed angle relative to the drone or a specific location; and g. a video transmitter that transmits the video to a receiver for display on a drone operator's monitor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7375
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15873115', '14388761', '14680833', '13733361', '13493643']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4035116266042299
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5326355181300425
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4164240157568112
- Mean Citation Score: 204.454724
- Max Citation Score: 342.78375
- Similarity Product: 286.12768072485926

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test