An imaging device for use on-board a reconnaissance vehicle comprises an image capturing unit configured to capture images of a photographic area. A control unit communicates via a serial communications interface with a control body unit of the reconnaissance vehicle, and operates in an image photographing mode that receives control information from the control body unit of the reconnaissance vehicle via the serial communications interface and in an image transfer mode that transfers the images to the control body unit of the reconnaissance vehicle via the serial communications interface in accordance with a data transfer protocol. The control unit responds to detecting mode switching conditions to switch autonomously from the image photographing mode to the image transfer mode. Only a single serial communications interface is needed both to control the imaging device and to transfer the captured images from the imaging device in the image transfer mode.
IMAGING DEVICE, CAMERA-EQUIPPED DRONE, AND MODE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM
2020-06-11
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge / G05D SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES , Systeme zum Steuern oder Regeln nichtelektrischer veränderlicher Größen / H04L TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION , Übertragung digitaler Information, z.B. Telegrafieverkehr / H04N PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION , Bildübertragung, z.B. Fernsehen |
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