Patent №
US 10,313,638
Granted
2019-06-04
Filed 2015
Owner
AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Lab
AI components
3
vision · planning · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
14738502
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) may perform a surveillance action at a property of an authorized party. The property may be defined by a geo-fence, which may be a virtual perimeter or boundary around a real-world geographic area. The UAV may image the property to generate surveillance images, and the surveillance images may include image data of objects inside the geo-fence and image data of objects outside the geo-fence. While gathering surveillance images, or after the surveillance images have been gathered, the geo-fence information may be used to obscure or remove image data referring to objects outside the geo-fence. Geo-clipped surveillance images may be generated by physically constraining a sensor of the UAV, by performing pre-image capture processing, or post-image capture processing. Geo-clipped surveillance images may be limited to authorized property, so privacy is ensured for private persons and property.
AI classification
Ownership
AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
assignment · 367150223
Assignors
YETURU, KALIDAS, HUDDLESTON, JR., HOWARD LEE
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.