Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wide-area aerial camera systems
- Patent Title (中): 广域空中摄像机系统
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Application No.: US14735504Application Date: 2015-06-10
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Publication No.: US09185290B1Publication Date: 2015-11-10
- Inventor: Paul Lapstun , Todd William Lupton , Mark Harold Tarlinton , David Arnold Bleads , Zoltan Toth , Andrew Millin
- Applicant: nearmap Australia Pty Ltd.
- Applicant Address: AU Sydney
- Assignee: nearmap Australia Pty Ltd
- Current Assignee: nearmap Australia Pty Ltd
- Current Assignee Address: AU Sydney
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Main IPC: G03B15/00
- IPC: G03B15/00 ; G03B37/00 ; B64D47/08 ; H04N5/232 ; G02B26/08

Abstract:
A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising at least one steerable camera module, the steerable camera module comprising a camera and a beam-steering mechanism in the optical path of the camera module whereby the pointing direction of the camera is time-multiplexed to provide a wider effective field of view, the beam-steering mechanism comprising a steerable mirror tilted with respect to an optical axis of the camera module, the steerable mirror adapted to spin about the optical axis to effect beam steering.
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