Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Camera for photogrammetry and aerial photographic device
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Application No.: US13973081Application Date: 2013-08-22
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Publication No.: US09609282B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Fumio Ohtomo , Hitoshi Otani , Kazuki Osaragi , Mitsuharu Yamada
- Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo-to
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo-to
- Agency: Nields, Lemack & Frame, LLC
- Priority: JP2012-185294 20120824
- Main IPC: H04N7/18
- IPC: H04N7/18 ; B64C13/20 ; B64C27/82 ; G01C21/00 ; H04N5/232 ; G01C11/06

Abstract:
The invention provides a camera for photogrammetry, which comprises a shaft 11 tiltably supported in any direction via a gimbal 14, a GPS device having a GPS antenna 12 installed on an upper end of said shaft, and a photographic device main unit 13 installed on a lower end of said shaft, wherein optical axis of said photographic device main unit is designed so as to direct in vertical and downward direction, said photographic device main unit has an image pickup unit 24 installed in a known relation with said GPS antenna and a control device for controlling image pickup of said image pickup unit, and said control device 19 controls said image pickup unit so that still image is acquired by the image pickup unit, and an image pickup position at the time of image pickup is obtained by said GPS device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140055613A1 Camera For Photogrammetry And Aerial Photographic Device Public/Granted day:2014-02-27
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