Patents by Inventor Rüdiger J. WAGNER

Rüdiger J. WAGNER 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: 10273000
    Abstract: Method for aerial image capturing by means of an unmanned and controllable aircraft comprising a camera, more particularly a drone, during a flight maneuver of said aircraft, comprising continual determining of a camera position and alignment of an optical camera axis and acquiring of a series of aerial images. For each aerial image of said aerial image series, the capturing of the respective aerial image is triggered by flying through a respective image trigger region with said aircraft, wherein the location of said respective image trigger region is determined at least in each case by one trigger position assigned to said respective image trigger region and triggered subject to the alignment of the camera axis when flying through said respective image trigger region, with respect to fulfilling a defined, maximum angle deviation relative to a predetermined spatial alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: Rüdiger J. Wagner, Michael Naderhirn
  • Publication number: 20160133019
    Abstract: Method for aerial image capturing by means of an unmanned and controllable aircraft comprising a camera, more particularly a drone, during a flight manoeuvre of said aircraft, comprising continual determining of a camera position and alignment of an optical camera axis and acquiring of a series of aerial images. For each aerial image of said aerial image series, the capturing of the respective aerial image is triggered by flying through a respective image trigger region with said aircraft, wherein the location of said respective image trigger region is determined at least in each case by one trigger position assigned to said respective image trigger region and triggered subject to the alignment of the camera axis when flying through said respective image trigger region, with respect to fulfilling a defined, maximum angle deviation relative to a predetermined spatial alignment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Rüdiger J. WAGNER, Michael NADERHIRN