公开(公告)号：US06621516B1

公开(公告)日：2003-09-16

申请号：US09621992

申请日：2000-07-21

申请人： Thomas Wasson ,  Susanne M Montemayor ,  Robert S. Smith

发明人： Thomas Wasson ,  Susanne M Montemayor ,  Robert S. Smith

IPC分类号： H04N718

CPC分类号： H04N7/185

摘要： A system for securing image data of an environment including a camera having a panoramic lens mounted on a cart. In one embodiment, the motor mounted on the cart is battery operated so that the cart is self contained. In one embodiment, the cart is mounted on a pair of caterpillar treads, each tread having its own motor controlled to drive the motor forward, backward or to turn. For inline inspection, such as the inside of a pipe, the camera is mounted on the cart by cantilevered legs that permit adjusting the height of the camera above the surface supporting the cart (the interior surface of the pipe and maintains the axis of the panoramic lens parallel with the pipe. In other versions, the cart is equipped to form images of pipe whose interior surface has been penetrated by phospohescent laced water that weeps from outside the pipe into the pipe interior. In another embodiment, the inside surface of pipe is sprayed with a laccquer containing phosphorescent-ferromagnetic particles that coalesce along the edges of discontinuities in the pipe surface. In yet another embodiment, the cart and camera are encased in a water tight seal and with only the caterpilar treads mounted on wheels protrucint from the housing and the camera is encased in a water tight container. The caterpillar tread is equipped with flippers that lay down when the wheels supporting the tread turn in one direction but which are free to stand up when the tread is movved in the opposite direction. The flippers are lockable in either direction.

摘要翻译： 一种用于保护环境的图像数据的系统，包括安装在推车上的具有全景透镜的照相机。 在一个实施例中，安装在推车上的电动机是电池操作的，使得推车是自包含的。 在一个实施例中，推车安装在一对履带踏板上，每个胎面具有其自己的电动机控制以驱动电动机向前，向后或转动。 对于在线检查，例如管道内部，相机通过悬臂支撑安装在推车上，允许调整摄像机在支撑车的表面上方的高度（管道的内表面并保持全景的轴线） 透镜与管道平行，在其他形式中，推车装备有形成管道的图像，其内表面已经被从管外部流出的管道内部的磷酸洗涤的水渗透，在另一个实施例中，管的内表面 喷射含有磷光铁磁颗粒的漆，沿着管表面的不连续部分的边缘聚结;在另一个实施例中，手推车和照相机被封装在防水密封中，并且只有毛皮胎面安装在从壳体上突出的轮子上 并且相机被包装在防水容器中。履带式胎面配备有当支撑胎面的轮子时放下的脚蹼 在一个方向上转动，但是当胎面沿相反方向移动时，它们可以自由站立。 脚蹼可以朝两个方向锁定。