Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wide-area aerial camera systems
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Application No.: US15009181Application Date: 2016-01-28
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Publication No.: US09641736B2Publication Date: 2017-05-02
- 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: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; G03B15/00 ; G03B37/04 ; B64D47/08 ; H04N5/225 ; G01C11/02 ; G02B26/08 ; H04N5/341 ; G03B17/56 ; G03B35/02 ; G03B37/02 ; H04N5/372
Abstract:
A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising four steerable detail camera modules, each steerable detail camera module comprising a detail camera and a beam-steering mechanism in an optical path of the detail camera module whereby the pointing direction of the detail camera is time-multiplexed to provide a wider effective field of view, the beam-steering mechanism comprising a first steerable mirror.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160150142A1 WIDE-AREA AERIAL CAMERA SYSTEMS Public/Granted day:2016-05-26
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