ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,438, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Jimei Univisity (Xiamen, China).
"Self navigation method for a drone or the like" was invented by Yendo Hu (San Diego), Yiliang Wu (Xiamen, China), Runheng Huang (Xiamen, China) and Qiaoduo Hu (Qingdao, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for autonomous visual route following for an autonomous vehicle such as a drone is described. In the route learning phase, the method compresses panoramic views captured by a camera mounted on the autonomous vehicle into low-dimensional embedding vectors via a lightweight neural network and dynamically decides on snapshot storage based on a confide...