IMAGING DEVICE, CAMERA-EQUIPPED DRONE, AND MODE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

WIPO Patent Application WO/2019/009171

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An imaging device, such as a camera or the like, for use on-board a reconnaissance vehicle comprises an image capturing unit configured when activated to capture photographic or video images of a photographic area,　and a control unit.　The control unit is configured to communicate via a serial communications interface with a control body unit of the reconnaissance vehicle, and to operate in an image photographing mode in which the control unit receives control information from the control body unit of the reconnaissance vehicle via the serial communications interface and in an image transfer mode in which the control unit transfers the photographic or video 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 is configured in response to detecting mode switching conditions to switch autonomously from the image photographing mode to the image transfer mode to transfer one or more photographic or video images to the control body unit of the reconnaissance vehicle.　Accordingly only a single serial communications interface, such as a USB, need by provided both to control the imaging device and to transfer the captured images from the imaging device in the image transfer mode using a data transfer protocol, such as a mass storage class, MTC, compatible type data communications protocol.

HARADA TAKESHI (JP)
ODA RYUNOSUKE (JP)

PCT/JP2018/024525

January 10, 2019

June 28, 2018

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SONY CORP (JP)

H04N7/18

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