Surveying device, and calibration method and calibration program for surveying device

    公开(公告)号:US11460561B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-04

    申请号:US16205420

    申请日:2018-11-30

    Inventor: You Sasaki

    Abstract: A technique is provided to enable check of calibrated condition of a total station (TS) having a laser scanner at a surveying site. The TS includes an optical system, a laser positioning part, a plane equation calculator, a laser scanner, a separation amount calculator, and an exterior orientation parameter calculator. The laser positioning part emits laser light on an object via the optical system to position the object. The plane equation calculator calculates an equation of a specific plane on the basis of result from the laser positioning part. The laser scanner scans the specific plane with laser light to obtain scanning points. The separation amount calculator calculates a separation amount of the respective scanning points from the specific plane. The exterior orientation parameter calculator calculates exterior orientation parameters of one or both of the laser positioning part and the laser scanner so that the separation amount will be small.

    Method for calibrating measuring element, method for evaluating road surface properties, and apparatus for evaluating road surface properties

    公开(公告)号:US11385337B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-12

    申请号:US15850212

    申请日:2017-12-21

    Abstract: A method for calibrating unevenness of a plurality of measuring elements in an apparatus for evaluating road surface property having a plurality of measuring elements repeats steps of computing separation quantities from a calibration reference plane on a reference area regarding all measuring elements; determining a measuring element where the separation quantity is maximum from among all the measuring element to calibrate the measuring element such that a difference between point cloud data produced from a measurement value of the measuring element where the separation quantity is maximum and the calibration reference plane becomes equal or less than a predetermined value, producing a new calibration reference plane from the measurement values of the measuring elements including the calibrated measuring element, until RMS of point cloud data does not change.

    Target device and surveying system

    公开(公告)号:US12111156B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-08

    申请号:US16982837

    申请日:2019-03-25

    Inventor: You Sasaki

    CPC classification number: G01C15/002 G01C15/06 G01S17/42 G01S17/66

    Abstract: A target device 20 includes: a prism 22 configured to reflect light incident on the prism in a direction identical to a direction of incidence of the light; a support part 21 configured to support the prism 22; and a plurality of direction indicators 23 formed on the prism 22 to indicate a direction of the prism. A surveying system 1 includes the target device 20 attached to a camera 11 of a UAV 10, and a surveying device 3 surveying the prism 22 as a target and taking a target image Tp including the prism 22 to detect the orientation of the UAV 10 based on the direction indicators 23 appearing in the target image.

    Survey system
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11333764B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-17

    申请号:US16255235

    申请日:2019-01-23

    Abstract: The survey system includes a mobile body equipped with a scanner configured to perform scanning by a distance measuring light, a position measuring device configured to measure a position of the scanner, and a posture detecting device configured to detect a posture of the scanner, the posture detecting device includes an imaging unit configured to periodically acquire image data, a 3-axis angular velocity sensor configured to detect 3-axis posture angles of the scanner, and an arithmetic control unit, and the arithmetic control unit is configured to calculate posture information of the scanner by summing photographing-time 3-axis posture angles (SP0, SP1, SPn) of the scanner acquired in each photographing by image analysis of the image data, and 3-axis posture relative displacement angles of the scanner calculated from detection values of the 3-axis angular velocity sensor.

    Measuring device, control device for unmanned aerial vehicle and computer program product for controlling unmanned aerial vehicle

    公开(公告)号:US11048276B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-29

    申请号:US16160187

    申请日:2018-10-15

    Inventor: You Sasaki

    Abstract: Objects of the present disclosure include providing a technique which can efficiently guide an unmanned aerial vehicle to a particular part of a target object. Provided is a control device for an unmanned aerial vehicle including a camera. The control device comprises a bright spot detection unit configured to detect, from an image captured by camera, a bright spot generated by a laser pointer; a flight control unit configured to perform, based on position of the bright spot in the image, flight control over the unmanned aerial vehicle. In such structure, the camera detects the bright spot, generated by the irradiation of spot-type indicating laser beam from the total station, on a wall surface, and the flight control over the unmanned aerial vehicle is performed in a manner that the unmanned aerial vehicle follows the bright spot.

    Road surface property acquiring method and road surface property acquiring device

    公开(公告)号:US10514254B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-24

    申请号:US15423785

    申请日:2017-02-03

    Abstract: To rapidly and reliably measure a road surface property using measurement results and determination results of a road surface in the past. A vehicle mounted with a road surface property acquiring device is guided to a specified point on a road and measurement is carried out. The past road surface data on a past road surface property is acquired, a present position of the vehicle is acquired, and a past road surface property image representing a feature amount of the road surface property in a range including the present position created based on the past road surface data is displayed; and the vehicle is guided from the present position to a specified area while measuring a state of the road surface with the road surface property acquiring device.

    REFLECTION OBJECT POSITION CALCULATING DEVICE, REFLECTION OBJECT POSITION CALCULATING METHOD, AND REFLECTION OBJECT POSITION CALCULATING PROGRAM

    公开(公告)号:US20190383944A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-19

    申请号:US16435608

    申请日:2019-06-10

    Inventor: You Sasaki

    Abstract: Point cloud data that is missed due to an optical reflection object in measuring point cloud data using a laser scanner is used. A reflection object position calculating device includes a point cloud data receiving unit, a three-dimensional point cloud model generating unit, a missing data part searching unit, a missing data part determining unit, and a reflection object position calculator. The point cloud data receiving unit receives point cloud data. The three-dimensional point cloud model generating unit generates a three-dimensional point cloud model from the received point cloud data. The missing data part searching unit searches for a missing data part of the generated three-dimensional point cloud model. The missing data part determining unit determines whether the found missing data part has a predetermined specific shape. The reflection object position calculator calculates three-dimensional coordinates of the missing data part that is determined as having the specific shape.

    Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program

    公开(公告)号:US10176615B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-08

    申请号:US15377187

    申请日:2016-12-13

    Abstract: Problems occurring due to a difference in point of view between cameras in compositing a panoramic image by using multiple images taken by the cameras are solved. An image processing device includes an image data receiving unit 101, a panoramic image generating unit 102, a designation receiving unit 103, and a single photographic image selecting unit 105. The image data receiving unit 101 receives data of a first still image and a second still image. The panoramic image generating unit 102 projects the first still image and the second still image on a projection sphere to generate a composited image. The designation receiving unit 103 receives designation of a specific position in the panoramic image. The single photographic image selecting unit 105 selects one of the first still image and the second still image, which contains the designated position received by the designation receiving unit 103.

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