Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120078451 | Automatic Taking-Off And Landing System - The invention provides an automatic taking-off and landing system, comprising a flying object and a taking-off and landing target, wherein the flying object has an image pickup device | 03-29-2012 |
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 |
20120277934 | Taking-Off And Landing Target Instrument And Automatic Taking-Off And Landing System - The taking-off and landing target instrument | 11-01-2012 |
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 |
20130038692 | Remote Control System - A remote control system comprises a mobile object, a remote controller for remotely controlling the mobile object, and a storage unit where background images to simulate a driving room or an operation room of the mobile object are stored. The mobile object has a stereo camera, a camera control unit for controlling image pickup direction of the stereo camera, and a first communication unit for communicating information including at least images photographed by the stereo camera. The remote controller has a second communication unit for communicating to and from the first communication unit, a control unit for controlling the mobile object, and a display unit for synthesizing at least a part of the images photographed by the stereo camera and the background images and for displaying the images so that a stereoscopic view can be displayed. | 02-14-2013 |
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 |
20130155224 | Rotation Angle Detecting Apparatus And Surveying Instrument - A rotation angle detecting apparatus comprises a bearing holder, a rotation shaft rotatably supported by the bearing holder, a shaft portion space formed in the rotation shaft, a bearing holder space formed in the bearing holder, an angle detection pattern in the shaft portion space, a reference pattern and an image sensor in the bearing holder space, an optical system which exists across the shaft portion space and the bearing holder space and forms a projection image of the angle detection pattern and a projection image of the reference pattern on the image sensor, a photodetection switching means for selectively projecting the projection images of the angle detection pattern and the reference pattern onto the image sensor, and an arithmetic device for calculating a rotation angle of the rotation shaft based on a deviation between the reference pattern and the angle detection pattern received by the image sensor. | 06-20-2013 |
20130155397 | Rotation Angle Detecting Apparatus And Surveying Instrument - A rotation angle detecting apparatus comprises a bearing holder, a rotation shaft rotatably supported by said bearing holder, a shaft portion space formed in said rotation shaft, a bearing holder space formed in said bearing holder, a first condenser lens in said shaft portion space and having an optical axis that coincides with a center line of said rotation shaft, a second condenser lens in said bearing holder space and on an extension of a center line of said rotation shaft, an angle detection pattern at a focal position of one of said first and said second condenser lens, and an image sensor at a focal position of the other of said condenser lens, wherein said image sensor detects a projection image of said angle detection pattern projected onto said image sensor, and a displacement of said projection image involved by the rotation of said rotation shaft is detected. | 06-20-2013 |
20130284909 | Rotation Angle Detecting Apparatus - A rotation angle detecting apparatus comprises a shaft portion space formed in a rotation shaft, a bearing holder space, a first condenser lens, a second condenser lens to face the first condenser lens, a detection pattern provided at a focal position of one of the first condenser lens and the second condenser lens, an image sensor provided at a focal position of the other of the first condenser lens and the second condenser lens, and an arithmetic unit for calculating an angle displacement of the rotation shaft. The arithmetic unit carries out a total circumferential scanning, extracts a frequency component, carries out a scanning of a reference designation pattern, and calculates the angle displacement of the rotation shaft based on a phase difference of the frequency component and the number of frequencies corresponding to a change in a position of the reference designation pattern. | 10-31-2013 |
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 |
20140240498 | Aerial Photographing System - An aerial photographing system, comprising a flying vehicle being remotely controlled, a camera ( | 08-28-2014 |
20140354802 | Spectral Image Acquiring Device And Spectral Image Acquiring Method - A spectral image acquiring device comprises an objective lens, a field aperture member for limiting a size of an image passing through the objective lens and focusing, a wavelength selecting member arranged on an optical axis of the objective lens, having two or more wavelength selecting surfaces and having different wavelength selection characteristics for each of the wavelength selecting surfaces, a deflecting member for deflecting partial luminous fluxes passing through the wavelength selecting surface, an image pickup element arranged on the optical axis of the objective lens, and an image forming lens for focusing the partial luminous fluxes deflected by the deflecting member on the image pickup element for each of the partial luminous fluxes. | 12-04-2014 |
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 |
20150077545 | Direction Detecting Apparatus And Surveying System - A direction detecting apparatus provided at a known position from a lower end of a supporting pole, comprising an image pickup device with an optical axis orthogonal to an axis of the supporting pole and an arithmetic processing part for calculating based on an image from the image pickup device, wherein the image pickup device acquires an image so as to include an object for which a direction is to be detected, wherein the arithmetic processing part calculates and detects a direction and a tilt of the object from a relation between a position of the object in the image and an optical axis of the image pickup device. | 03-19-2015 |