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- The present application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/801,501, entitled “System and Method for Controlling A Remote Aerial Device For Up-Close Inspection, filed Mar. 15, 2013 and which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
- The present disclosure relates to remote controlled devices and, more particularly, to precisely controlling a remote aerial device for up-close inspection of a subject.
- After an accident or loss, property owners typically file claims with their insurance companies. In response to these claims, the insurance companies assign an agent to investigate the claims to determine the extent of damage and/or loss and to provide their clients with appropriate compensation.
- Often, the claim investigations can be time-consuming, difficult and even dangerous for the insurance agents. For example, in order to investigate a claim for damage to a home owner's roof, an agent may have to climb onto the roof, and perform inspections while on the owner's roof. By climbing on the roof and attempting to maneuver around the roof to perform his inspection, the insurance agent opens himself to a real risk of injury, especially in difficult weather conditions where the roof may be slippery because of rain, snow, and/or ice and winds may be severe.
- Even if the insurance agent performs the inspection without getting injured, performing the full investigation may still be time-consuming. In addition to the time required to drive to and from the incident site and to perform the inspection itself, significant paperwork and calculations may be involved in calculating compensation owed to the clients. For example, if an insurance agent takes photos on the roof of a client's building to assess a claim for roof damage from a hurricane, in order to calculate how much money should be paid to the client, the agent may have to come back to his office, research the client's property, research the cost of the damaged property and research repair costs. All of these steps are time consuming and both delay payment to the client and prevent the agent from assessing other client claims.
- In situations where the insurance company has received a large number of claims in a short time period (e.g., when a town is affected by a hurricane, tornado, or other natural disaster), an insurance agent may not have time to perform timely claim investigations of all the received claims. If claim investigations are not performed quickly, property owners may not receive recovery for their losses for long periods of time. Additionally, long time delays when performing claim investigations can lead to inaccurate investigations results (e.g., the delay may lead to increased opportunity for fraud and/or may make it more difficult to ascertain the extent of damage at the time of the accident or loss)
- Insurance companies have recently attempted to use remote controlled devices to assist in investigating claims. In this case, the insurance agent generally visits the site of the claim and uses a remote controlled device to investigate a roof of a client. The device may include a remote controlled balloon, a helicopter, a robot capable of scaling a building, etc. The remote controlled device may employ a camera, video camcorder, etc. to gather data about subject matter related to the claim (e.g., the roof of the client) and may transmit this data to the user whom remains firmly on the ground. However, the insurance agent is required to visit the site because the remote controlled device, generally, is controlled by a short distance radio controlled handheld console. Furthermore, the operator must have extensive flight training and practice time to successfully and safely operate the remote controlled device.
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FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an example system in which techniques for remotely controlling a remote aerial device are implemented; -
FIG. 2 is a flow diagram of an example method for collecting and transmitting proximal sensor data via a remote aerial device; and -
FIG. 3 is a flow diagram of an example method for controlling a remote aerial device for up-close inspection. - Generally, a remote control system may be used to control the movement of a remote aerial device in an incremental step manner during a close inspection of an object or other subject matter. A user may desire to closely inspect an object or a subject from a remote location using a remote aerial device. The user may deploy a remote aerial device with data collection equipment to the location of the object using standard navigation techniques for an unmanned aerial vehicle. After the remote aerial device reaches the location, a control module operating on the remote aerial device may enter the remote aerial device into an “inspection” mode in which the control module “stabilizes” the remote aerial device in a maintained, consistent hover that is substantially stationary in three dimensional space, while maintaining a close distance to the object. The control module may retrieve proximal sensor data that indicates possible nearby obstructions (e.g., walls, trees, buildings, radio towers, landscapes, etc.) from the proximity sensors on board the remote aerial device. Moreover, the proximal sensors may be implemented to detect objects within a specific distance threshold within any three dimension of the stationary hover position of the remote aerial device. The control module may retrieve a geographic location and an altitude that corresponds to the current hover position of the remote aerial device.
- The control module may transmit this proximal sensor data, the geographic location, and the altitude to a remote control module that operates on a remote control client. The remote control module may determine the possible one or more non-obstructed directions that the remote aerial device is capable of moving by an incremental distance. The incremental distance may be a predetermined distance or may be dynamic depending on certain environments or situations. The remote control module may display, or otherwise indicate, the one or more possible non-obstructed directions that the remote aerial device may move to the user. In response to receiving a selection of one of the directions from the user, the remote control module may transmit the selection to the control module operating on the remote aerial device. The control module may move the remote aerial device by the incremental distance in the direction of the selected direction and, again, may stabilize the remote aerial device.
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FIG. 1 , asystem 10 includes aremote control client 12 coupled to both a remoteaerial device 40 and a server 14 via acommunication network 16. Theremote control client 12 may be, for example, a laptop computer, a tablet computer, a smartphone, etc. In the embodiment illustrated inFIG. 1 , theremote control client 12 includes a central processing unit (CPU) 20, a graphics processing unit (GPU) 22, a computer-readable memory 24, and auser interface 30 including atouch interface 32,voice interface 34, etc. In various implementations, thetouch interface 32 can include a touchpad over which the user moves his fingers while looking at a separately provided screen, a touchscreen where the user places his fingers directly over the image being manipulated or over a displayed control being activated (e.g. a displayed keyboard), etc. In other implementations, thevoice interface 34 may include any device that includes a microphone, such as a Bluetooth ear piece, a smartphone, etc. Thememory 24 is a computer-readable non-transitory storage device that may include both persistent (e.g., a hard disk) and non-persistent (e.g., RAM) memory components, stores instructions executable on theCPU 20 and/or theGPU 22 that make up aremote control module 36 andlocation data 26 andsensor data 28 on which theremote control module 36 operates. Theremote control module 36 includes anincremental movement module 38 that allows a user to easily control the remoteaerial device 40 via step-like, incremental movements in which one incremental movement is in response to one single user command. - The
remote control module 36 according to various implementations operates as a separately executable software application, a plugin that extends the functionality of another software application such as a web browser, an application programming interface (API) invokable by a software application, etc. The instructions that make up theremote control module 36 may be compiled and executable on theCPU 20 and/or theGPU 22 directly, or not compiled and interpreted by theCPU 20 at runtime. Further, theincremental movement module 38 may be provided as an integral part of theremote control module 36 or as a separately installable and downloadable component. - Referring still to
FIG. 1 , the remoteaerial device 40 includes acontroller 42 that communicates with one ormore proximity sensors 44, one ormore stabilization sensors 45, a Global Positioning System (GPS)unit 46, animage sensor 47, and acommunications unit 48. Thecontroller 42 includes aprocessor 50 that executes instructions from a computer-readable memory 52 to implement acontrol module 54 and astabilization module 56. Thecontrol module 54 may invoke thestabilization module 56 to retrieve data from the stabilization sensors 45 (i.e., sensors relating avionics) to implement a control function, such as that associated with a control routine that performs PID (proportional-integral-derivative), fuzzy logic, nonlinear, etc. control to maintain the stability of the remoteaerial device 40. For instance, thestabilization sensors 45 may include one or more of a directional speed sensor, a rotational speed sensors, a tilt angle sensor, an inertial sensor, an accelerometer sensor, or any other suitable sensor for assisting in stabilization of an aerial craft. Thestabilization module 54 may utilize the data retrieved from thesestabilization sensors 45 to control the stability of the remoteaerial device 40 in a maintained, consistent hover that is substantially stationary in three dimensional space while maintaining close distance (e.g., 12-18 inches) to the object. Of course, thestabilization module 56 may implement any suitable technique of stabilizing the remoteaerial device 40 in a hover or stationary three dimensional position. - The
control module 54 may retrieve data from theproximity sensors 44 to determine nearby objects, obstructions, etc. that hinder movement of the remoteaerial device 40. Theseproximity sensors 44 may include any sensor or technique that assists thecontrol module 44 in determining a distance and a direction to any nearby object. The one ormore proximity sensors 44 may include ultrasonic sensors, infrared sensors, LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), a stereo vision system (SVS) that may utilize the image sensors 47 (e.g., one or more cameras) to implement stereoscopic imaging techniques to determine a distance, and/or any other suitable method in determining the distance from the remoteaerial device 40 to a nearby object. - The
GPS unit 46 may use “Assisted GPS” (A-GPS), satellite GPS, or any other suitable global positioning protocol or system that locates the position the device. For example, A-GPS utilizes terrestrial cell phone towers or wi-fi hotspots (e.g., wireless router points) to more accurately and more quickly determine location of the device while satellite GPS generally are more useful in more remote regions that lack cell towers or wifi hotspots. Thecommunication unit 48 may communicate with the server 14 via any suitable wireless communication protocol network, such as a wireless telephony network (e.g., GSM, CDMA, LTE, etc.), a wi-fi network (802.11 standards), a WiMAX network, a Bluetooth network, etc. - In an example scenario, the server 14 receives a request that specifies a customer, a structure, a pre-stored route, etc. The server 14 in response retrieves insurance data (e.g., customer biographical information, type of property, etc.), and location data (e.g., a property location of a customer, etc.) from a
customer database 66 and alocation database 68, respectively. The server 14 then provides the customer data, the location data, and appropriate indications of how certain portions of the customer data and the location data are linked, to theremote control client 12 as part of thelocation data 42. Theremote control client 12 may use this location data to determine a geographic location that the remote aerial device is initially sent. Of course, thecustomer database 66 and thelocation database 68 may be disposed within theremote control client 12 depending on implementations. -
FIG. 2 depicts a flow diagram illustrating an exemplary method for collecting proximal sensor data for transmittal to theremote control client 12. Themethod 100 begins when the remoteaerial device 40, after arriving at a selected target location for closely inspecting an object, transitions into an “inspection” mode (block 105) (opposed to “flight” or “transitory” mode, i.e., travel to the target). While in inspection mode, the remote aerial device generally remains within close range to the inspected object or the subject and moves slowly to capture images, videos, audio, or any other type of data from the object or the subject. A user, via the remote control client, may select this target location by entering the global position coordinates, an address, etc. or may retrieve the target location from thecustomer database 66 and thelocation database 68 in which the target location may be associated with a customer's name or a customer identifier (e.g., policy number, etc.). For example, in responding to a submitted insurance claim, an insurance agent may wish to inspect a customer's property via thesystem 10. The agent, via theremote control client 12, may invoke theremote control module 36 to request from the server 14 anddatabases aerial device 40 to the target location using this requested property location. The target location may include a specific geographic location and a specific altitude that is predetermined to be a obstruction free position for the remote aerial device to enter into the inspection mode from the transitory mode. - After the remote aerial device transitions into inspection mode, the
control module 54 may invoke thestabilization module 56 to stabilize the remoteaerial device 40 at the specific geographic location and the specific altitude associated with the target location (block 110). With the remote aerial device “stabilized” in a substantially stationary position, thecontrol module 54 may retrieve proximal sensor data from the proximity sensors 44 (block 115). Themethod 100 additionally includes determining whether thecontrol module 54 includes the capability of determining non-obstructed incremental movement directions of the remote aerial device 40 (block 120). If the control module does include this capability, then thecontrol module 54 determines the location of the proximal obstructions within a distance threshold using the retrieved proximal data (block 125). For example, thecontrol module 54 may utilize an absolute compass and determine the position or the location of each obstruction relative to a cardinal ordinate or may base the direction of the obstructions relative to the direction the remoteaerial device 40 is facing. Thecontrol module 54 may incorporate one or more locations of mountings ofproximity sensors 44 on the remoteaerial device 40 in determining the position of nearby objects relative to the remoteaerial device 40. For example, if twoproximity sensors 44 are mounted on a right side of the remoteaerial device 40, thecontrol module 54 may determine a location of a nearby obstruction relative to the right side of the remoteaerial device 40. - Referring to
FIG. 2 , after determining the locations of the nearby obstructions, thecontrol module 54 may determine one or more possible non-obstructed directions for the remoteaerial device 40 to incrementally move (block 130). While the remoteaerial device 40 remains in the hover stationary position, thecontrol module 54 may adhere to a specific movement pattern, such as only moving in the six main three dimensional directions (e.g., forward, backward, sideways to the left, sideways to the right, up, and down), moving with higher degrees of freedom within a two dimensional plane level that runs parallel to the ground with up and down (e.g., eight directions in the two dimensional plane, up, and down), or any other movement regime that is suitable for an untrained remote control operator. Thus, thecontrol module 54 may determine the possible non-obstructed directions for the remoteaerial device 40 to incrementally move while adhering to a specific movement pattern. For example, if thecontrol module 54 is using the six main three dimensional directions and obstructions are discovered to be located above and below (within the distance threshold), thecontrol module 54 determines that the only directions of possible movement for the remoteaerial device 40 are forward, backward, sideways to the left, and sideways to the right. - In response to this determination, the
control module 54 may transmit the determined directions of possible movement to remote control client 12 (block 135). Additionally, thecontrol module 54 may retrieve and transmit spatial position data (e.g., a geographic location and an altitude) to the remote control client (block 140). Likewise, referring back to theblock 120, if thecontrol module 54 does not include the capability in determining non-obstructed incremental movement directions, thecontrol module 54 may transfer control to theblock 140 to transmit only the spatial position data. Theremote control module 12 may receive a selection of one of the directions of possible movement from the user and transmit the selection to thecontrol module 54 of remote aerial device 40 (described below). Thecontrol module 54 may receive the selection (block 145) and may move the remoteaerial device 40 by the distance of one incremental movement. The distance of the one incremental movement may be a predetermined distance, such as one inch, one foot, etc., or may dynamically driven based the context of the object to be inspected (e.g., a single family house, large urban skyscraper, etc.) After traveling the distance of the one incremental movement, thecontrol module 54 may invoke thestabilization module 56 again to bring the remoteaerial device 40 back into a stationary hover position at theblock 110. -
FIG. 3 depicts a flow diagram illustrating an exemplary method for controlling the remoteaerial device 40 for inspection of an object or a subject. Themethod 200 begins with theremote control module 36 waiting to receive data from thecontrol module 54 after the remote aerial device enters inspection mode (block 205). Themethod 200 includes theremote control module 36 receiving proximal sensor data and spatial position data that is associated with the current position of the remote aerial device 40 (block 210). Theremote control module 36 may process this spatial position data into a geographic location and an altitude associated with the current position of the remoteaerial device 40. The geographic location may be stored in thememory 24 of theremote control client 12 or may be stored into thelocation database 68 for future analysis or to recreate the current route of the remoteaerial device 40. Theremote control module 36 may use the determined geographic location and the altitude to provide context to user when displaying any information relating to the remoteaerial device 40. For instance, theremote control module 36 may invoke theincremental movement module 38 to display the geographic location of the remoteaerial device 40 on a displayed map in conjunction and in relation to possible directions of incremental movements of the remoteaerial device 40. - Referring to
FIG. 3 , theremote control module 36 determines whether any possible non-obstructed incremental movement directions are available or received from the remote aerial device 40 (block 215). If no possible directions are provided by the remoteaerial device 40, theremote control module 36 may determine the location of proximal obstructions with the distance threshold using the proximal sensor data (block 220). Theremote control module 36 may determine the location of proximal obstructions in a similar manner to the determination performed bycontrol module 30 at theblock 125 inFIG. 2 . Likewise, as illustrated inFIG. 3 , theremote control module 36 may determine one or more possible non-obstructed directions for the remote aerial device to incrementally move in a similar manner to the determination performed by thecontrol module 40 in theblock 130 inFIG. 2 (block 225). - Referring back to
FIG. 3 , theremote control module 36 may invoke theincrement movement module 38 to display the geographic location and the altitude in conjunction with the determined possible directions that the remoteaerial device 40 may move incrementally in a non-obstructed manner (blocks 230, 235). In response to displaying the possible directions of movement, the remote control module may receive a selection of one of the directions of movement via the user interface 30 (block 240). For example, theremote control module 36 may receive the selection via a tapping gesture on thetouch interface 32. Likewise, the selection may be received by a voice command via thevoice interface 34. Upon receiving the selection, theremote control module 36 transmits the selection of the direction of movement to thecontrol module 54 to signal a change in position of the remote aerial device 40 (block 245). - Similarly, the
remote control module 36 may also receive a selection of a rate of speed of the remoteaerial device 40 from the user or, of course, the rate of speed may also be predetermined. Thecontrol module 54 may use this rate of speed to implement a constant rate of speed on the remoteaerial device 40 in the case that the user selects multiple incremental movements or selects the movements in a rapid succession. The constant rate of speed may be beneficial in obtaining smooth video data from theimage sensors 47. Moreover, thesystem 10 also allows for the remoteaerial device 40 to capture images of the object (e.g., a single family house) via theimage sensors 47 and to image process the captured images, to produce a waypoint route for the remoteaerial device 40 to follow in lieu of human input. Alternatively, a user may input the waypoints manually and determine a constant rate of speed of the remoteaerial device 40 for the route. Thesystem 10 may incorporate a payload weight of the remoteaerial device 40 to determine a number of waypoints and speed. Thesystem 10 may also create a travel boundary that bounds or contains the remoteaerial device 40 within the travel boundary. - The following additional considerations apply to the foregoing discussion. Throughout this specification, plural instances may implement components, operations, or structures described as a single instance. Although individual operations of one or more methods are illustrated and described as separate operations, one or more of the individual operations may be performed concurrently, and nothing requires that the operations be performed in the order illustrated. Structures and functionality presented as separate components in example configurations may be implemented as a combined structure or component. Similarly, structures and functionality presented as a single component may be implemented as separate components. These and other variations, modifications, additions, and improvements fall within the scope of the subject matter of the present disclosure.
- Additionally, certain embodiments are described herein as including logic or a number of components or modules. Modules may constitute either software modules (e.g., code stored on a machine-readable medium) or hardware modules. A hardware module is tangible unit capable of performing certain operations and may be configured or arranged in a certain manner. In example embodiments, one or more computer systems (e.g., a standalone, client or server computer system) or one or more hardware modules of a computer system (e.g., a processor or a group of processors) may be configured by software (e.g., an application or application portion) as a hardware module that operates to perform certain operations as described herein.
- In some cases, a hardware module may include dedicated circuitry or logic that is permanently configured (e.g., as a special-purpose processor, such as a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)) to perform certain operations. A hardware module may also include programmable logic or circuitry (e.g., as encompassed within a general-purpose processor or other programmable processor) that is temporarily configured by software to perform certain operations. It will be appreciated that the decision to implement a hardware module in dedicated and permanently configured circuitry or in temporarily configured circuitry (e.g., configured by software) may be driven by cost and time considerations.
- Accordingly, the term hardware should be understood to encompass a tangible entity, be that an entity that is physically constructed, permanently configured (e.g., hardwired), or temporarily configured (e.g., programmed) to operate in a certain manner or to perform certain operations described herein. Considering embodiments in which hardware modules are temporarily configured (e.g., programmed), each of the hardware modules need not be configured or instantiated at any one instance in time. For example, where the hardware modules comprise a general-purpose processor configured using software, the general-purpose processor may be configured as respective different hardware modules at different times. Software may accordingly configure a processor, for example, to constitute a particular hardware module at one instance of time and to constitute a different hardware module at a different instance of time.
- Hardware and software modules can provide information to, and receive information from, other hardware and/or software modules. Accordingly, the described hardware modules may be regarded as being communicatively coupled. Where multiple of such hardware or software modules exist contemporaneously, communications may be achieved through signal transmission (e.g., over appropriate circuits and buses) that connect the hardware or software modules. In embodiments in which multiple hardware modules or software are configured or instantiated at different times, communications between such hardware or software modules may be achieved, for example, through the storage and retrieval of information in memory structures to which the multiple hardware or software modules have access. For example, one hardware or software module may perform an operation and store the output of that operation in a memory device to which it is communicatively coupled. A further hardware or software module may then, at a later time, access the memory device to retrieve and process the stored output. Hardware and software modules may also initiate communications with input or output devices, and can operate on a resource (e.g., a collection of information).
- The various operations of example methods described herein may be performed, at least partially, by one or more processors that are temporarily configured (e.g., by software) or permanently configured to perform the relevant operations. Whether temporarily or permanently configured, such processors may constitute processor-implemented modules that operate to perform one or more operations or functions. The modules referred to herein may, in some example embodiments, comprise processor-implemented modules.
- Similarly, the methods or routines described herein may be at least partially processor-implemented. For example, at least some of the operations of a method may be performed by one or processors or processor-implemented hardware modules. The performance of certain of the operations may be distributed among the one or more processors, not only residing within a single machine, but deployed across a number of machines. In some example embodiments, the processor or processors may be located in a single location (e.g., within a home environment, an office environment or as a server farm), while in other embodiments the processors may be distributed across a number of locations.
- The one or more processors may also operate to support performance of the relevant operations in a “cloud computing” environment or as a SaaS. For example, at least some of the operations may be performed by a group of computers (as examples of machines including processors), these operations being accessible via a network (e.g., the Internet) and via one or more appropriate interfaces (e.g., application program interfaces (APIs).)
- The performance of certain of the operations may be distributed among the one or more processors, not only residing within a single machine, but deployed across a number of machines. In some example embodiments, the one or more processors or processor-implemented modules may be located in a single geographic location (e.g., within a home environment, an office environment, or a server farm). In other example embodiments, the one or more processors or processor-implemented modules may be distributed across a number of geographic locations.
- Some portions of this specification are presented in terms of algorithms or symbolic representations of operations on data stored as bits or binary digital signals within a machine memory (e.g., a computer memory). These algorithms or symbolic representations are examples of techniques used by those of ordinary skill in the data processing arts to convey the substance of their work to others skilled in the art. As used herein, an “algorithm” or a “routine” is a self-consistent sequence of operations or similar processing leading to a desired result. In this context, algorithms, routines and operations involve physical manipulation of physical quantities. Typically, but not necessarily, such quantities may take the form of electrical, magnetic, or optical signals capable of being stored, accessed, transferred, combined, compared, or otherwise manipulated by a machine. It is convenient at times, principally for reasons of common usage, to refer to such signals using words such as “data,” “content,” “bits,” “values,” “elements,” “symbols,” “characters,” “terms,” “numbers,” “numerals,” or the like. These words, however, are merely convenient labels and are to be associated with appropriate physical quantities.
- Unless specifically stated otherwise, discussions herein using words such as “processing,” “computing,” “calculating,” “determining,” “presenting,” “displaying,” or the like may refer to actions or processes of a machine (e.g., a computer) that manipulates or transforms data represented as physical (e.g., electronic, magnetic, or optical) quantities within one or more memories (e.g., volatile memory, non-volatile memory, or a combination thereof), registers, or other machine components that receive, store, transmit, or display information.
- As used herein any reference to “one embodiment” or “an embodiment” means that a particular element, feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment. The appearances of the phrase “in one embodiment” in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment.
- Some embodiments may be described using the expression “coupled” and “connected” along with their derivatives. For example, some embodiments may be described using the term “coupled” to indicate that two or more elements are in direct physical or electrical contact. The term “coupled,” however, may also mean that two or more elements are not in direct contact with each other, but yet still co-operate or interact with each other. The embodiments are not limited in this context.
- As used herein, the terms “comprises,” “comprising,” “includes,” “including,” “has,” “having” or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion. For example, a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements is not necessarily limited to only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Further, unless expressly stated to the contrary, “or” refers to an inclusive or and not to an exclusive or. For example, a condition A or B is satisfied by any one of the following: A is true (or present) and B is false (or not present), A is false (or not present) and B is true (or present), and both A and B are true (or present).
- In addition, use of the “a” or “an” are employed to describe elements and components of the embodiments herein. This is done merely for convenience and to give a general sense of the description. This description should be read to include one or at least one and the singular also includes the plural unless it is obvious that it is meant otherwise.
- Upon reading this disclosure, those of skill in the art will appreciate still additional alternative structural and functional designs for providing an interface for inspecting indoor and outdoor map data through the disclosed principles herein. Thus, while particular embodiments and applications have been illustrated and described, it is to be understood that the disclosed embodiments are not limited to the precise construction and components disclosed herein. Various modifications, changes and variations, which will be apparent to those skilled in the art, may be made in the arrangement, operation and details of the method and apparatus disclosed herein without departing from the spirit and scope defined in the appended claims.
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