Monitoring method and system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12469396-B2
Application number	US-202318123704-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 20, 2023
Priority date	Mar 21, 2017
Publication date	Nov 11, 2025
Grant date	Nov 11, 2025

Abstract

A method for monitoring an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a processor obtaining a datagram based on monitoring data for a UAV-detector communication between the UAV and one or more detectors. The monitoring data indicates at least one of a location of the UAV or a location of a control station in communication with the UAV. The method further includes determining a risk level by retrieving pre-stored risk information associated with the UAV based on the datagram.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method comprising:
in response to receiving a selection instruction from a user, controlling one or more detectors not in communication with a terminal to only monitor communication between one or more movable objects and the terminal, the one or more movable objects being determined based on the selection instruction; obtaining, by the one or more detectors, a datagram based on monitoring data from the communication between the one or more movable objects and the terminal, the monitoring data indicating a physical location of one of the one or more movable objects; displaying a flight trajectory of the one of the one or more movable objects based on the physical location of the one of the one or more movable objects, the flight trajectory being generated based on a sequence of the monitoring data; and determining a risk level based on the datagram.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the datagram is to be received by the one or more detectors, at least a portion of working data is to be received and deciphered by the terminal but not to be deciphered by the one or more detectors, and the at least a portion of working data includes image or video data sent by the one or more movable objects to the terminal.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the datagram includes a plurality of sub-datagrams, each of the plurality of sub-datagrams is transmitted by a transmitter cyclically with at least one of fixed time intervals or variable time intervals.

4 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the datagram includes a plurality of sub-datagrams, at least a portion of the working data is transmitted by a transmitter in a neighboring subframe between two consecutive sub-datagrams of the datagram.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein a guard interval is provided by the transmitter between one of two consecutive sub-datagrams of the datagram and the neighboring subframe to avoid transmission interference between movable object-detector communication and the movable object-terminal communication.

6 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the datagram includes a plurality of sub-datagrams, each sub-datagram of the datagram comprises an index indicating a sequence or order of the plurality of sub-datagrams for the one or more detectors to reconstruct or decipher the datagram.

7 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the at least a portion of working data is encrypted by a first encryption key known to the terminal but not known to the one or more detectors, wherein the datagram is encrypted using a second encryption key known to the one or more detectors, the encrypted datagram is to be received and deciphered by the one or more detectors using the second encryption key.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the datagram is obtained using at least one of a different working frequency band, modulation scheme, coding scheme, data format, or communication protocol from at least a portion of working data, the at least a portion of working data including image or video data sent by the one or more movable objects to the terminal and one or more movement control signals sent by the terminal to the one or more movable objects.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the physical location of the movable object includes geographic coordinates information of the movable object obtained by a first location sensor, and the physical location of the terminal includes geographic coordinates information of the terminal obtained by a second location sensor.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the one or more detectors include a plurality of detectors in a zone; and the method further comprises:
determining the risk level associated with the movable object in the zone based on a plurality of datagrams from the plurality of detectors.

11 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the datagram is transmitted along with working data, the working data including at least one of image or video data sent by the movable object to the terminal or one or more movement control signals sent by the terminal to the movable object.

12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the risk level based on the datagram includes determining the risk level based on the flight trajectory of the selected one of the plurality of movable objects.

13 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying, on a graphical display, a boundary of an area monitored by the one or more detectors.

14 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the monitoring data further includes a type of the selected one of the plurality of movable objects defined by one or more physical components of the selected one of the plurality of movable objects or one or more functions of the selected one of the plurality of movable objects, and a security level or a priority level of the selected one of the plurality of movable objects is determined based on the type of the selected one of the plurality of movable objects.

15 . A system comprising:
one or more processors at one or more detectors configured to:
in response to receiving a selection instruction from a user, control the one or more detectors not in communication with a terminal to only monitor communication between one or more movable objects and the terminal, the one or more movable objects being determined based on the selection instruction;
obtain a datagram based on monitoring data from the communication between the one or more movable objects and the terminal, the monitoring data indicating at least one of a location of one of the one or more movable objects, a location of the terminal in communication with the one or more movable objects, a movable object identifier of one of the one or more movable objects, a user identifier, a type of one of the one or more movable objects, or an identifier of the terminal; and
determine a risk level by retrieving pre-stored risk information associated with the movable object based on the datagram.

16 . The system of claim 15 , wherein the datagram is transmitted by a transmitter, encrypted working data is transmitted by the transmitter, the datagram is to be received by the one or more detectors, the encrypted working data is encrypted by an encryption key known to the control terminal but not known to the one or more detectors, and the encrypted working data is to be received and deciphered by the terminal using the encryption key.

17 . The system of claim 15 , wherein the one or more detectors are in communication with a server, the risk information being stored in the server.

18 . A method for monitoring a movable object, comprising:
monitoring, by one or more detectors not in communication with a terminal, a communication between the movable object and the terminal; obtaining, by the one or more detectors, a datagram based on monitoring data from the communication between the movable object and the terminal, the monitoring data indicating a physical location of the movable object and a physical location of the terminal in communication with the movable object, wherein the physical location of the movable object includes geographic coordinates information of the movable object obtained by a first location sensor, the physical location of the terminal includes geographic coordinates information of the terminal obtained by a second location sensor; determining a risk level based on the datagram; and in response to determining that a monitoring state of the movable object is invalid, controlling the movable object to enter a flight regulation mode and sending an alert to the terminal, the monitoring state of the

Assignees

• Sz Dji Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Gong Ming
• Yang Bingzhen
• You Zhongqian
• Zhan Guohao
• Xie Peng
• Zhong Xiaohang
• Wang Naibo
• Lin Xingsen
• Rao Xiongbin
• Deng Renqin
• Chen Wenyue
• Wang Mingyu

Classifications

• G08G5/727

  from a ground station · CPC title

• G08G5/57

  for unmanned aircraft · CPC title

• G08G5/55

  for a single aircraft · CPC title

• G08G5/53 Primary

  for cruising · CPC title

• B64U2201/20

  Remote controls · CPC title