Canon working on research and development of their Consumer-grade Drones? Well, at least from a patent it looks so. Canon is working on its first generation of consumer-grade Drones, maybe in the next two to three years can get a Drone camera from Canon.
Patent Details Translated
An object of the present invention is to provide a mechanism in which a cable unmanned aerial vehicle can be guided to a safe place by adjusting the length of a cable connected to the unmanned aerial vehicle so that the unmanned aerial vehicle falls to a safe place when dropped. An unmanned aerial vehicle control system in which an unmanned aerial vehicle connected to a base station by a cable and an information processing device are connected via a network, wherein a comparison is made between the size of the base station and the length of the cable. Means, and a cable adjusting means for controlling the length of the cable to be shorter than the width of the base station when the length of the cable is determined to be longer than the width of the base station by the comparing means. It is characterized by having.
Patent Details
Application JPxxxxxxxx9A events – 2019-08-21
Application filed by Canon Marketing Japan Inc – 2019-08-21
Priority to JPxxxxxxxx9A – 2019-11-24
Publication of JPxxxxxxxx9A
Status – Pending
Canon already have Industrial Grade Drone Under Development (Announced on April 2017)
Well, back in April 2017 Canon done a development announcement of industrial drone PD6E2000-AW-CJ1 (yes only model code name available). And they never made it official. And the drone looks like still in the development stage. BTW, the industrial drone was using ME20F-SH high sensitivity camera, and by high sensitivity they mean ISO that can go all the way up to ISO 4 560 000! But, the cost of the camera was $19K.
We will update you soon as we get any new information.
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