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Patent Inventor Names
Derral C. Thorson0
Jesse J. W. Redman0
William Kress Bodin0
Date of Patent
October 31, 2006
0Patent Application Number
106921180
Date Filed
October 23, 2003
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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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