Patents by Inventor Marco Peter Silva PEDROSA

Marco Peter Silva PEDROSA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10891770
    Abstract: A remote station and method for rendering a ground plane over video feed are provided. The remote station comprises a processor, a communication interface for communicating with an unmanned vehicle (UV), and a non-transitory memory device storing a communications module. The communications module comprises machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to render a ground plane over video feed. The method comprises receiving a video feed from a camera on a UV, receiving from the UV telemetry information of the camera, receiving from the camera a zoom factor of the camera, calculating a horizon of the camera at a UV controller of the UV, and rendering the horizon as an overlay image on the video feed at a display of the UV controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: FLIR UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS ULC
    Inventors: Marco Peter Silva Pedrosa, Mark Nathan Holden, Marcus White, Charles R. Elliott
  • Publication number: 20190333260
    Abstract: A remote station and method for rendering a ground plane over video feed are provided. The remote station comprises a processor, a communication interface for communicating with an unmanned vehicle (UV), and a non-transitory memory device storing a communications module. The communications module comprises machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to render a ground plane over video feed. The method comprises receiving a video feed from a camera on a UV, receiving from the UV telemetry information of the camera, receiving from the camera a zoom factor of the camera, calculating a horizon of the camera at a UV controller of the UV, and rendering the horizon as an overlay image on the video feed at a display of the UV controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Marco Peter Silva PEDROSA, Mark Nathan HOLDEN, Marcus WHITE, Charles R. ELLIOTT