Image and/or radio signals capturing platform

• Main Author: Musso, Ivano
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.10.2019
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; AIRCRAFT; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; ARRANGEMENTS OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSIONTRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; CINEMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLING; COSMONAUTICS; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING; FLYING SUITS; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; HOLOGRAPHY; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; METEOROLOGY; NAVIGATION; PARACHUTES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; REGULATING; RELATED EQUIPMENT; SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; SURVEYING; SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES; TESTING; TRANSPORTING

A platform configured to acquire images and/or radio signals and to be carried by lightweight aircraft includes housing structure that houses an acquisition sensor to acquire still and/or moving images and radio signals receivers to acquire radio signals. The housing is configured to be coupled to light aviation aircraft. Sensing data is provided from a position and motion sensing unit coupled to the sensor. The processing structure controls and/or programs, on the basis of the received sensing data, each sensor to enable the sensor to acquire images and/or radio signals when the sensor is in a determined position and is subject to oscillations below a maximum velocity value. A rate of variation of actual aiming of the sensor is not larger in absolute value than a respective maximum value of offset variation rate with respect to an ideal aiming, so as to ensure focusing on an aimed area.