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Eye In The Sky TCSP # 7 Patent Liability Analysis -Team 3 Upsham Dawra Joe Katz Samit Sura Ashwin Shankar. Project Overview. Portable low-cost aerial drone that can be used for reconnaissance

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  1. Eye In The SkyTCSP #7Patent Liability Analysis-Team 3UpshamDawra Joe KatzSamitSuraAshwin Shankar

  2. Project Overview • Portable low-cost aerial drone that can be used for reconnaissance • Relay real-time video and data, like location, heading, battery life • Take high-resolution pictures of the ground in flight • Store photos and some flight data in non-volatile memory, á la “blackbox” system. • Control drone manually via a control unit

  3. Block Diagram

  4. Identifying Functions for Analysis • Major Functions Analyzed: • The UAV is controlled manually via the ground using a controller • It will relay real-time video to the ground station • It collects data like GPS coordinates and relays them to base station • First look at 3 patents with possible infringements, then look at competing products.

  5. Possible Infringement #1 • Navigating a UAV under remote control and manual control with three dimensional flight depiction • US Patent #6856894 • Filing Date : 10/23/2003 • Similarities: • Navigating a UAV using remote control device • GPS sends data to ground, which is shown as a 3D model • Doctrine of Equivalents • Has significant differences in algorithm, defined in great detail in patent document. • We never do pixel mapping to GUI to get waypoints

  6. Possible Infringement #2 • Navigating UAVs with an on-board digital camera • US Patent Application #20100004802/A1 • Filing Date : 01/25/2005 • Similarities • Talks about using an on-board digital camera for navigation of UAV • Doctrine of Equivalents • Significant algorithm changes, we never change “resolution of image” or focus on “required number of pixels”

  7. Possible Infringement #3 • Enabling Services on a UAV • US Patent #7509212 • Filing Date : 01/24/2005 • Similarities: • Outlines a method to get data like current position from a UAV • Doctrine of Equivalents • We do not use the data collected to select a “service module”/upload the module to the UAV and use it to select flight patterns etc • Infact, we have manual control throughout.

  8. Competing Products #1 • Robota Triton • Has the same functions as our UAV (GPS coordinates, XBEE RX/TX with base station, high res camera in payload bay, Battery management, custom software for base station, ground remote control) • Closest form to literal infringement (We do not have autopilot) • Retails for 9000$

  9. Competing Products #2 • Microdrone MD4-200 • Similar Functions to our UAV • Remote controlled selectable (autonomous flight available) • Can be configured to take real-time video and send it back to base station • Falls under literal infringement (We do not have autopilot, no hover capability)

  10. Recommended Action • Confirm that the US Patents are no threats, if they are, change the design accordingly • As for the more serious literal infringements: • Check if Robota/Microdrone have patents on this technology • If they do, buying a license or paying royalty fees may be the only viable alternative • No such patents found yet

  11. Feedback • Questions?

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