Geographic data collecting system

• US 20070010924A1
• Filed: 08/16/2005
• Published: 01/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
• Inventors: Ishida, Takeshi, Tanahashi, Atsushi, Kaneko, Junki, Otani, Hitoshi, Inaba, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US11/204,638
• Publication Number:
  US 20070010924A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/35
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 11/30 by triangulation
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 15/00 Surveying instruments or accessories not provided for in groups G01C1/00 - G01C13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/005 with correlation of navigation data from several sources, e.g. map or contour matching G01C21/30 takes precedence

Abstract

A geographic data collecting system, comprising an image pickup unit for taking a digital image including a measuring point of an object to be measured, a GPS unit, an azimuth sensor for detecting an image pickup direction, a display unit for displaying the image taken, a receiving unit for receiving correction information to correct measurement result of the GPS unit, and a control arithmetic unit for obtaining corrected position data by correcting the measurement result based on the correction information and for associating the image acquired by the image pickup unit with the corrected position data and for storing the image and the corrected position data in a storage unit.

Claims

1. A geographic data collecting system, comprising an image pickup unit for taking a digital image including a measuring point of an object to be measured, a GPS unit, an azimuth sensor for detecting an image pickup direction, a display unit for displaying the image taken, a receiving unit for receiving correction information to correct measurement result of said GPS unit, and a control arithmetic unit for obtaining corrected position data by correcting the measurement result based on the correction information and for associating the image acquired by said image pickup unit with the corrected position data and for storing the image and the corrected position data in a storage unit.

2. A geographic data collecting system according to claim 1, wherein said control arithmetic unit obtains 3-dimensional coordinates of the object to be measured based on two images obtained by taking images of the object to be measured from two image pickup points, based on two position information obtained for the two image pickup points, and based on azimuth angles of two image pickup directions detected by said azimuth sensor.

3. A geographic data collecting system according to claim 2, wherein geographic data including at least a point of the object to be measured is provided in advance, and a position of the object to be measured is associated with the geographic data based on 3-dimensional coordinate data of the object to be measured thus calculated.

4. A geographic data collecting system according to claim 2, wherein an image of the object to be measured as displayed on said display unit is associated with 3-dimensional coordinate data of the object to be measured, and the data is converted to a distance or an area by designating a position on the image.

5. A geographic data collecting system according to claim 2, wherein there is provided a sensor for integrally obtaining a moving direction and a moving distance, and selection of a second point to take the image of the object to be measured from a first point for taking the image is suggested.

6. A geographic data collecting system according to claim 2, wherein there is provided a gyro sensor, and said gyro sensor detects a moving direction when the gyro sensor is moved from a first image pickup point to a second image pickup point.

7. A geographic data collecting system according to claim 2, wherein coordinates of the measuring point on the object to be measured are associated with the image taken and are stored.

8. A geographic data collecting system according to claim 2, wherein a template including pixels of a predetermined range is set up on a first image, a retrieval range wider than the range of said template is set up on a second image, and an image is taken so that the template is included within the retrieval range in said second image.

9. A geographic data collecting system according to claim 2, wherein said control arithmetic unit performs feature extraction in a predetermined range on the first image and sets up pass points based on the feature extraction, measures the pass points from the matching with the second image, and calculates relative orientation.

10. A geographic data collecting system according to claim 9, wherein 3-dimensional coordinates of a point is obtained when the point is designated on the image based on position information of a first image pickup point and a second image pickup point by said GPS unit and based on angle information of the point on the image according to the first image pickup point and the second image pickup point, and the 3-dimensional coordinates are associated with geographic data including the point, and the position of the point can be displayed on said display unit as the image.

11. A geographic data collecting system, comprising an image pickup unit for taking a digital image including an object to be measured, a GPS unit, an azimuth sensor for detecting an image pickup direction, a display unit for displaying the image taken, wherein 3-dimensional coordinates of the object to be measured are obtained from two images acquired from two points, and there is provided position measuring function through an image in addition to position measuring function by said GPS unit.