Abstract:
A survey apparatus includes a guide light emitting optical system emitting a fan-like visible laser light elongated in upward and downward directions as a guide light, a cylindrical part having a scanning optical system searching a corner reflector provided on a survey pole and a ranging optical system measuring a distance to the corner reflector, a driving part rotating the cylindrical part about a vertical axis in a horizontal direction and rotating the cylindrical part about a horizontal axis, and an angle measurement part measuring a direction of the cylindrical part. The guide light emitting optical system is rotated about the vertical axis in a horizontal direction integrally with the cylindrical part.
Abstract:
A measuring device comprising a light source unit for projecting a pulsed distance measuring light, a projecting light optical system, a light receiving optical system for receiving a reflected pulsed distance measuring light, a light receiving part having a single photodetector, and a control unit for measuring a distance by measuring time from light emission of the pulsed distance measuring light to receipt of the reflected pulsed distance measuring light is disclosed. The light source unit has a plurality of light emitting sources arranged in a known relation and a driving unit for driving the light emitting sources at a predetermined time interval. The light receiving part has a reduced optical system arranged at position conjugate to the light emitting source for guiding the reflected pulsed distance measuring light to the photodetector. The control unit is designed to identify a photodetection signal by matching it with the light emitting source.
Abstract:
A laser surveying system comprises a leveling unit (3) having a motor for leveling, a light source unit (14) for emitting a laser beam, a light projecting optical system installed on the leveling unit and for projecting the laser beam, a power supply unit for supplying electric power to each of component sites, a control unit (7) for driving and controlling each of the component sites, a storage unit (26), a tilt detecting means (11) installed on the leveling unit and used for detecting leveling conditions, a rotation number detecting means (13) for detecting number of rotations of the motor, a light source detecting means (16a and 16b) for detecting light emitting condition of the light source unit, a voltage detecting means (24) for detecting output voltage of the power source unit, and an abnormality detecting means for detecting operational abnormality, and in the laser surveying system, the control unit monitors whether there is abnormality or not by the abnormality detecting means, samples a detection signal from each of the detecting means at a predetermined time interval, and stores signal groups thus detected in the storage unit in time series as sampling data, and when the stored sampling data exceeds a predetermined amount, older data are deleted, and new sampling data are sequentially overwritten, and when at least one of the detection signals for monitoring indicates abnormality, using a point to indicate the abnormality as a base point, the sampling data in a range of a predetermined time period are exempted from the objects of deletion and are preserved as data for analysis of the cause of abnormality.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a surveying instrument, which comprises rotating units operated rotatably, supporting units to support the rotating units, a reflection mirror portion provided on one of the supporting unit or the rotating unit, tilt sensors arranged on the other of the supporting unit and the rotating unit and for projecting a detecting light and for detecting a relative tilting of the reflection surface of the reflection mirror portion with respect to the supporting unit by receiving the detecting light reflected by the reflection mirror portion, and a control unit for calculating an unsteadiness of rotation of the rotating unit based on a signal from the tilt sensor.
Abstract:
A surveying device, comprising a first image pickup unit for projecting a laser beam and for receiving a reflection light from a target, a second image pickup unit for acquiring an image including the target, drive units for shifting collimating directions of the image pickup units, an image processing unit for processing images taken by the image pickup units, and a control arithmetic unit for controlling the drive units so that the image pickup units are directed toward the target is disclosed. The image processing of the image by the first image pickup unit is a light spot detection processing. The image processing of the image by the second image pickup unit is an image matching with a template image. The control arithmetic unit controls the drive units so that the target is tracked based on the result of the light spot detection processing or the image matching.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a position measuring instrument, comprising a GPS position detecting device 7, an image pickup device 9 for continuously taking a digital image, a laser distance measuring device 8, and a measuring instrument main unit 2, wherein the GPS position detecting device measures positional data at a first point and a second point, the image pickup device continuously takes digital images on sceneries in surroundings during a process where the image pickup device moves from the first point, which is a known point, via the second point to a third point, which is an unknown point, the laser distance measuring device measures a distance to the object of image pickup in parallel to the image pickup by the image pickup device, and the measuring instrument main unit generates tracking point from the image obtained at the first point, sequentially identifies the tracking points from the tracing of points generated on the images to be acquired continuously, calculates three-dimensional positional data of the tracking points of the images acquired at the first point and the images acquired at the second point from the positional data at the first point and the second point, compares the result of calculation with the result of distance measurement by the laser distance measuring device, adopts the result of calculation within a predetermined limit of errors with respect to the measurement results as positional data of the tracking point, and calculates positional data of the third point from the positional data of the tracking point.
Abstract:
The invention provides a wide-angle image pickup unit, comprising at least two cameras (4a and 4b) to take digital images, wherein the two cameras are arranged in such a manner that optical axes (11a and 11b) of the two cameras cross perpendicularly each other on a same plane and images of wide field angle α with the crossing point O as a center enable to be acquired, and wherein parts of field angles of the two cameras are superimposed on each other and an overlapping portion is formed by the two images superimposed on each other, and stereoscopic measurement can be performed based on the two images of the overlapping portion.
Abstract:
An electro-optical distance measuring device having a photodetection unit comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in a predetermined arrangement is disclosed. A signal processing unit has a storage unit for storing the detection result in correspondence with each of the pixels, wherein the signal processing control unit sequentially changes a position of the division for every cycle wave at which the photodetection amount is detected and continues detections until a detected range becomes at least one cycle or more. The arithmetic processing unit calculates a waveform for at least one cycle stored in the storage unit for each pixel, obtains a phase difference of the waveform with respect to the irradiated distance measuring light, and calculates the distance based on the phase difference.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a position measuring instrument, comprising a GPS position detecting device 7, an image pickup device 9 for continuously taking a digital image, a laser distance measuring device 8, and a measuring instrument main unit 2, wherein the GPS position detecting device measures positional data at a first point and a second point, the image pickup device continuously takes digital images on sceneries in surroundings during a process where the image pickup device moves from the first point, which is a known point, via the second point to a third point, which is an unknown point, the laser distance measuring device measures a distance to the object of image pickup in parallel to the image pickup by the image pickup device, and the measuring instrument main unit generates tracking point from the image obtained at the first point, sequentially identifies the tracking points from the tracing of points generated on the images to be acquired continuously, calculates three-dimensional positional data of the tracking points of the images acquired at the first point and the images acquired at the second point from the positional data at the first point and the second point, compares the result of calculation with the result of distance measurement by the laser distance measuring device, adopts the result of calculation within a predetermined limit of errors with respect to the measurement results as positional data of the tracking point, and calculates positional data of the third point from the positional data of the tracking point.
Abstract:
A laser scanner, comprising a mirror rotatably provided, a driving unit for rotating the mirror, a distance measuring unit for projecting a distance measuring light for scanning to a measurement range via the mirror and for obtaining a position data by receiving the reflected distance measuring light via the mirror, a measuring direction observing means for indicating a projecting direction of the distance measuring light, and an operation unit for setting the measurement range by designating at least two measuring directions based on the result of observation of the measuring direction obtained by the measuring direction observing means.