Motorola Solutions, Inc.
System and Method of Operating a Vehicular Computing Device to Selectively Deploy a Tethered Vehicular Drone for Capturing Video

Abstract:

A vehicular computing device is operated to selectively deploy a tethered vehicular drone for capturing video. In operation, the vehicular computing device detects (i) a measure of video quality of video captured by a vehicular camera is less than a video quality threshold, (ii) a measure of change in vehicular motion is greater than a motion-change threshold, (iii) an obstruction within a field-of-view of the vehicular camera, or (iv) an area of interest or object of interest that is outside the field-of-view of the vehicular camera, and responsively deploys the tethered vehicular drone from a vehicular docked position to a tethered flight position to begin capturing video via a drone camera coupled to the tethered vehicular drone, and receives video captured via the drone camera while the tethered vehicular drone is deployed at the tethered flight position.