Uav flight display

Abstract

A method for providing flight information related to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes receiving, at a remote terminal, UAV state information comprising at least attitude information of the UAV when the UAV is airborne; determining, based on sensing data from one or more sensors of the remote terminal, remote terminal state information; processing the received UAV state information and the remote terminal state information to determine a spatial relationship between the UAV and the remote terminal; and simultaneously displaying, in a same display area on a display of the remote terminal, the determined spatial relationship between the UAV and the remote terminal, and a non-numeric, graphical attitude indicator that indicates the attitude information of the UAV.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for providing flight information related to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), said method comprising:
 receiving, at a remote terminal, UAV state information comprising at least attitude information of the UAV when the UAV is airborne;   determining, based on sensing data from one or more sensors of the remote terminal, remote terminal state information;   processing the received UAV state information and the remote terminal state information to determine a spatial relationship between the UAV and the remote terminal; and   simultaneously displaying, in a same display area on a display of the remote terminal, the determined spatial relationship between the UAV and the remote terminal, and a non-numeric, graphical attitude indicator that indicates the attitude information of the UAV.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein a position or an orientation of the attitude indicator in the display area corresponds to an attitude of the UAV. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the attitude indicator comprises a line. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein movement of the attitude indicator in the display area corresponds to rotation of the UAV around a rotation axis. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein a tilt of the attitude indicator corresponds to rotation of the UAV around a roll axis. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein a rise or fall of the attitude indicator corresponds to rotation of the UAV around a pitch axis. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the display area is substantially circular. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising displaying, in the same display area, a remote terminal orientation indicator that indicates a direction the remote terminal is facing. 
     
     
         9 . One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing system, configure the computing system to perform operations comprising:
 receiving, at a remote terminal, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) state information comprising at least attitude information of a UAV when the UAV is airborne;   determining, based on sensing data from one or more sensors of the remote terminal, remote terminal state information;   processing the received UAV state information and the remote terminal state information to determine a spatial relationship between the UAV and the remote terminal; and   simultaneously displaying, in a same display area on a display of the remote terminal, the determined spatial relationship between the UAV and the remote terminal, and a non-numeric, graphical attitude indicator that indicates the attitude information of the UAV.   
     
     
         10 . The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of  claim 9 , wherein the attitude indicator comprises a line. 
     
     
         11 . The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of  claim 9 , wherein movement of the attitude indicator in the display area corresponds to rotation of the UAV around a rotation axis. 
     
     
         12 . The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of  claim 11 , wherein a tilt of the attitude indicator corresponds to rotation of the UAV around a roll axis. 
     
     
         13 . The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of  claim 11 , wherein a rise or fall of the attitude indicator corresponds to rotation of the UAV around a pitch axis. 
     
     
         14 . The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of  claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise displaying, in the display area, a proximity indicator that indicates proximity of the UAV to a reference object that is not the remote terminal. 
     
     
         15 . A system for providing flight information related to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), comprising:
 one or more processors configured to:
 receive, at a remote terminal, UAV state information comprising at least attitude information of the UAV when the UAV is airborne; 
 determine, based on sensing data from the one or more sensors, remote terminal state information comprising at least orientation information of the remote terminal; 
 process the received UAV state information and the remote terminal state information to determine a spatial relationship between the UAV and the remote terminal; and 
 simultaneously display, in a same display area on a display of the remote terminal, the determined spatial relationship between the UAV and the remote terminal, and a non-numeric, graphical attitude indicator that indicates the attitude information of the UAV. 
   
     
     
         16 . The system of  claim 15 , wherein the attitude indicator comprises a line. 
     
     
         17 . The system of  claim 15 , wherein movement of the attitude indicator in the display area corresponds to rotation of the UAV around a rotation axis. 
     
     
         18 . The system of  claim 17 , wherein a tilt of the attitude indicator corresponds to rotation of the UAV around a roll axis. 
     
     
         19 . The system of  claim 17 , wherein a rise or fall of the attitude indicator corresponds to rotation of the UAV around a pitch axis. 
     
     
         20 . The system of  claim 15 , wherein displaying the determined spatial relationship between the UAV and the remote terminal comprises displaying a distance between the UAV and the remote terminal.