Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Navigation – Employing way point navigation
Reexamination Certificate
2006-10-31
2006-10-31
Camby, Richard M. (Department: 3661)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Navigation
Employing way point navigation
C701S003000, C701S023000, C701S024000, C701S213000, C244S075100
Reexamination Certificate
active
07130741
ABSTRACT:
Navigating a UAV, including receiving in a remote control device a user's selection of a GUI map pixel that represents a waypoint for UAV navigation, the pixel having a location on the GUI; mapping the pixel's location on the GUI to Earth coordinates of the waypoint; receiving a starting position from a GPS receiver on the UAV; calculating a heading in dependence upon the starting position, the coordinates of the waypoint, and a navigation algorithm; identifying flight control instructions for flying the UAV on the heading; and transmitting the flight control instructions from the remote control device to the UAV.
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Bodin William Kress
Redman Jesse J. W.
Thorson Derral C.
Biggers & Ohanian LLP
Camby Richard M.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Ohanian H. Artoush
Walker Mark S.
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