US Patent Issued to SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 4 for "UAV control method, device and UAV" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,127, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"UAV control method, device and UAV" was invented by Jie Qian (Shenzhen, China), Zhengzhe Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Lei Pang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method includes obtaining an image captured by a photographing device, determining a location of a target part of a target object in the image, controlling, based on at least the location of the target part, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to fly to an expected altitude with a non-zero horizontal distance with the target part of the target object, and in response to a de...