AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY SYSTEM USING UNMANNED FLYING OBJECT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To flexibly cope with various requirements from requesters at a low cost by stably flying an unmanned flying object (unmanned helicopter) in autonomous manner, and storing its flight route in advance for video recording and photographing with a digital camera of houses and buildings or the like from above at various angles. SOLUTION: The unmanned flying object (unmanned helicopter 1) which photographs an object A such as a house, a prescribed site, or the like from above comprises an autonomous control unit 3 for stably flying the unmanned helicopter 1 in autonomous manner, a photographing camera 2 for photographing the object A, a route guiding camera 4 for guiding the unmanned helicopter 1 to the position of the object A along a flight route to fly for photographing above the object A, and a storage part 5 for storing a flight program for making the unmanned helicopter 1 fly in a prescribed flight route and a photographing program for photographing the object A with the photographing camera 2 by a prescribed photographing technology along the flight route. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI