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20110096319 | GEOGRAPHIC DATA COLLECTING SYSTEM - A geographic data collecting system, comprising a distance measuring unit for projecting a distance measuring light and for measuring a distance to an object to be measured, a camera for taking an image in measuring direction, a display unit for displaying the pickup image, a touch panel provided to correspond to a screen position of the display unit, a tilt sensor for detecting a tilting of the measuring direction, and an arithmetic unit for calculating a distance to the object to be measured by giving consideration on the tilting in the measuring direction and a point-to-point distance as specified on the image by specifying two or more points of the object to be measured on a displayed image via the touch panel. | 04-28-2011 |
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20120162376 | Three-Dimensional Data Preparing Method And Three-Dimensional Data Preparing Device - The invention provides a three-dimensional data preparing method, using image pickup units | 06-28-2012 |
20130076862 | Image Acquiring Device And Image Acquiring System - An image acquiring device comprises a first camera 14 for acquiring video images, consisting of frame images continuous in time series, a second camera 15 being in a known relation with the first camera and used for acquiring two or more optical spectral images of an object to be measured, and an image pickup control device 21, and in the image acquiring device, the image pickup control device is configured to extract two or more feature points from one of the frame images, to sequentially specify the feature points in the frame images continuous in time series, to perform image matching between the frame images regarding the frame images corresponding to the two or more optical spectral images based on the feature points, and to synthesize the two or more optical spectral images according to the condition obtained by the image matching. | 03-28-2013 |
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20090175497 | LOCATION MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD - With apparatus and method for measuring in three dimensions by applying an estimating process to points corresponding to feature points in a plurality of motion image frames, high speed and high accuracy are realized. The apparatus comprises: a first track determining section ( | 07-09-2009 |
20090175498 | LOCATION MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD - To realize high speed and high precision with device and method of three-dimensional measurement by applying estimating process to points corresponding to feature points in a plurality of motion frame images. With the device and method of calculating location information through processes of choosing a stereo pair, relative orientation, and bundle adjustment and using corresponding points of feature points extracted from respective motion frame images, each process is made up of two stages. To the first process section (stages: | 07-09-2009 |
20110085738 | EDGE EXTRACTION APPARATUS, SURVEYING EQUIPMENT, AND PROGRAM - An edge extraction device can reduce detected noise other than a contour of an article, and can improve the operability. The edge extraction device includes: an edge detection section which calculates edge strength from an image and detects an edge; a labeling processing section which performs labeling processing on the edge detected by the edge detection section and calculates a length of the edge; an edge enhancement processing section which performs edge enhancement processing by using a value corresponding to the length of the edge, which is calculated by the labeling processing section, and the edge strength, which is calculated by the edge detection; and an edge extraction section which performs binarization processing on a value of the image, which is enhanced by the edge enhancement processing section, by using an adjustable threshold value, and extracts a predetermined edge. | 04-14-2011 |
20110261165 | MODEL FORMING APPARATUS, MODEL FORMING METHOD, PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD - The present invention provides a model forming apparatus that can simply and efficiently form a three-dimensional model of an object using previously obtained three-dimensional model data of the object as a starting point. The apparatus comprises a photographing section | 10-27-2011 |
20130121564 | POINT CLOUD DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, POINT CLOUD DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, POINT CLOUD DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND POINT CLOUD DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM - A point cloud data processing device is equipped with a non-plane area removing unit 101, a plane labeling unit 102, a contour calculating unit 103, and a point cloud data remeasurement request processing unit 106. The non-plane area removing unit 101 removes point cloud data relating to non-plane areas from point cloud data in which a two-dimensional image of an object is linked with data of three-dimensional coordinates of plural points that form the two-dimensional image. The plane labeling unit 102 adds labels for identifying planes with respect to the point cloud data in which the data of the non-plane areas are removed. The contour calculating unit 103 calculates a contour of the object by using local flat planes based on a local area that is connected with the labeled plane. The point cloud data remeasurement request processing unit 106 requests remeasurement of the point cloud data. | 05-16-2013 |
20130176305 | POINT CLOUD POSITION DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, POINT CLOUD POSITION DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, POINT CLOUD POSITION DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND POINT CLOUD POSITION DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM - The device includes a unit obtaining an object's point cloud position data, a unit obtaining the object's image data, a unit in which co-relationship between point cloud position data obtained in the point cloud position data obtaining unit through a primary viewpoint or image data obtained in the image data obtaining unit through the primary viewpoint and image data obtained in the image data obtaining unit through a secondary (different from the primary) viewpoint are identified, a unit forming a three-dimensional model by the data obtained in the point cloud position data obtaining unit, and a unit controlling displaying of the model formed in the model forming unit on a displaying device. The model forming unit forms a three-dimensional model having direction seen from the secondary viewpoint, depending on the co-relationship identified in the co-relationship identifying unit. Operators see the model seen from the secondary viewpoint as an image. | 07-11-2013 |
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20120173053 | Flight Control System For Flying Object - A flight control system for a flying object comprises a flying object, a navigating means provided in the flying object, a position measuring unit | 07-05-2012 |
20120212588 | Omnidirectional Image Measuring Instrument - An omnidirectional image measuring instrument comprises a horizontal rotary table, a horizontal rotary driving unit capable of rotating the horizontal rotary table at a constant speed, an EDM device and an image pickup device provided on the horizontal rotary table, and a control device for synchronously controlling a distance measurement by the EDM device and an image pickup by the image pickup device. The control device rotates the horizontal rotary table at every predetermined angle, operates the image pickup device, acquires single images at every predetermined rotational angle over a total circumference, combines the single images, prepares an omnidirectional image, performs scanning with a distance measuring light from the EDM device, carries out the distance measurement at every predetermined rotational angle over the total circumference, calculates a horizontal angle and a vertical angle of a distance measuring point from the omnidirectional image and obtains three-dimensional data of the measuring point. | 08-23-2012 |
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20120300070 | Aerial Photograph Image Pickup Method And Aerial Photograph Image Pickup Apparatus - An aerial photographing image pickup method comprises a step of making a flying object fly meanderingly, a step of taking the image at each vertex where a direction is changed in the meandering flight, a step of extracting feature points from a common overlay portion of the images taken from at least three adjacent vertices, a step of determining two images of two vertices in the images as one set and acquiring positional information of the two vertices by a GPS device for each set regarding at least two sets, a step of performing photogrammetry of the measuring points corresponding to the feature points based on positional information and based on the feature points of the two images and a step of determining the feature points when the surveying results of the measuring points coincide with each other in at least the two sets as tie points for image combination. | 11-29-2012 |
20130077176 | Spectral Image Sensor Device - A spectral image sensor device comprises a first optical system | 03-28-2013 |
20130135440 | Aerial Photograph Image Pickup Method And Aerial Photograph Image Pickup Apparatus - The aerial photograph image pickup method comprises a first step of acquiring still images along an outward route and a return route respectively, a second step of preparing a stereo-image with regard to three images adjacent to each other in advancing direction, and of preparing another stereo-image by relative orientation on one more set of adjacent images and of preparing two sets of stereo-images, a third step of connecting two sets of stereo-images by using feature points extracted from a portion of an image common to the two sets of stereo-images, a step of connecting all stereo-images in the outward route direction and in the return route direction according to images acquired in the first step by repeating the second and third steps, and a step of selecting common tie points from the images adjacent to each other in the adjacent course and connecting the adjacent stereo-images in the course. | 05-30-2013 |
20130321591 | Image Pickup Method And Photographing Device - A photographing device comprises an image pickup unit to acquire a moving image and a still image of an object, an image pickup control unit, an angle sensor, an image processing unit for extracting characteristic points from a first still image, tracking the characteristic points in the moving image, identifying the characteristic points in a newest image and selecting an orientation point common to the first still image and the newest image, a storage unit, a display unit, and an arithmetic unit. The arithmetic unit performs relative orientation between the first still image and the newest image based on the orientation point and on detection result of the angle sensor, obtains a distance H to the object and a distance B between points where the images have been photographed and performs guidance display where still images can be acquired sequentially when the B/H value reaches a predetermined value or higher. | 12-05-2013 |
20140055613 | Camera For Photogrammetry And Aerial Photographic Device - The invention provides a camera for photogrammetry, which comprises a shaft | 02-27-2014 |
20140119716 | Aerial Photogrammetry And Aerial Photogrammetric System - The invention provides aerial photogrammetry by using two or more flying vehicles, each equipped with a GPS device and an image pickup unit, comprising a step of setting up two or more photographing points and setting up a photographing point area, respectively, with each of the photographing points as the center, a step of measuring a position of the flying vehicle by the GPS device, a step where each of the flying vehicle reaches each corresponding photographing point area and maintains the position of the photographing point area, a step of acquiring a time when the flying vehicle finally reaches the photographing point area, a step of setting up a shutter timing time after a predetermined time from the moment when the flying vehicle has finally reached the photographing point area, and a step of taking aerial photographs by the two or more flying vehicles at the shutter timing time. | 05-01-2014 |
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20140371952 | Flying Vehicle Guiding System And Flying Vehicle Guiding Method - A flying vehicle guiding system, which comprises a remotely controllable flying vehicle system, a surveying instrument being able to measure distance, angle, and track, and a ground base station for controlling a flight of the flying vehicle system based on measuring results by the surveying instrument, wherein the flying vehicle system has a retro-reflector as an object to be measured, wherein the surveying instrument has a non-prism surveying function for performing distance measurement and angle measurement without a retro-reflector, a prism surveying function for performing distance measurement and angle measurement with respect to the retro-reflector, and a tracking function for tracking the retro-reflector and for performing distance measurement and angle measurement, wherein the surveying instrument performs non-prism measurement on a scheduled flight area, the ground base station sets a safe flight area based on the results of the non-prism measurement, and controls so that the flying vehicle system flies in the safe flight area based on the results of tracking measurement by de surveying instrument. | 12-18-2014 |