US Patent Issued to Skydio on Jan. 27 for "Hybrid zoom systems and methods for improved electronic image stabilization of unmanned aerial vehicle video streams" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,029, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Skydio Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Hybrid zoom systems and methods for improved electronic image stabilization of unmanned aerial vehicle video streams" was invented by Stepan Moskovchenko (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). A method includes capturing a raw video stream input using one or more camera sensors of the UAV. The method includes determining a zoom level for the raw video stream input. For the zoom level being determined to be greater than 3x, the method includes: first zooming the raw video stream input t...