UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR PHOTOGRAPHING OPERATOR USING SAME

An unmanned aerial vehicle is provided, which includes an aerial vehicle body; a camera mounted on the body; a sensor module installed in the body to sense surrounding environment information; a radio communication module installed in the body to perform radio communication with another communication device; at least one processor installed in the body and electrically connected to the camera, the sensor module, and the radio communication module; and a memory electrically connected to the processor, wherein the memory, during flying of the unmanned aerial vehicle, stores instructions to cause the processor : - to recognize a user's throwing gesture using the unmanned aerial vehicle, - to determine a user direction based on a first motion vector generated by the throwing gesture, - to predict a camera direction in a standstill location that is a target point of the unmanned aerial vehicle based on the throwing gesture, and - to control a photographing direction of the camera