SURVEYING APPARATUS

• US 20080123903A1
• Filed: 07/02/2007
• Published: 05/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pentax Industrial Instruments Co. Ltd. (Hoya Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Pentax Industrial Instruments Co. Ltd. (Hoya Corporation)
• Inventors: SAKURAI, Masatoshi, YACHI, Takanori, TAKAYAMA, Homu, MATSUO, Shunji
• Application Number:
  US11/772,331
• Publication Number:
  US 20080123903A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/106
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 1/04 combined with cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 15/00 Surveying instruments or accessories not provided for in groups G01C1/00 - G01C13/00

Abstract

A surveying apparatus is provided having a telescope, a digital camera, a measuring device, and a calculating device. The telescope collimates an aiming point on a surveying object. The digital camera has an imaging optical system provided separately from the telescopic optical system of the telescope. The measuring device measures the distance between the telescope and a surveying point to be surveyed. The calculating device calculates the location of the aiming point in an image which is captured by the digital camera.

Claims

1. A surveying apparatus comprising:

a telescope that collimates an aiming point on a surveying object;

a digital camera that has an imaging optical system provided separately from the telescopic optical system of said telescope;

a measuring device that measures the distance between said telescope and a surveying point to be surveyed; and

a calculating device that is for calculating the location of the aiming point in an image which is captured by said digital camera.

2. The surveying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the calculating device calculates the location of the aiming point in the image by using the difference between the optical axis of the imaging optical system and the optical axis of the telescopic optical system, and the distance between said surveying apparatus and the surveying object as measured by said measuring device.

3. The surveying apparatus according to claim 1 further comprises:

a point mark that indicates the location of the aiming point; and

a superimposing device that superimposes said point mark onto the image.

4. The surveying apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

a display device that shows an image taken by said digital camera;

a point mark that indicates the location of the aiming point; and

a superimposing device that superimposes said point mark onto the imager and represents the image on said display device.

5. The surveying apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

a point mark that indicates the location of the aiming point; and

a memory device that stores image data which is created by superimposing said point mark onto the image.

6. The surveying apparatus according to claim 4 further comprising an adjusting device that is used to relatively move the image and the point mark.

7. The surveying apparatus according to claim 6 wherein the adjusting device has an operating device moving the image to the point mark.

8. The surveying apparatus according to claim 6 wherein the adjusting device has an operating device moving the point mark to the image.

9. The surveying apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a memory device that stores error data, which data is the movement distance of the point mark or image.

10. The surveying apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a memory device that stores error data, which data is the distance between the point mark and the center of the image.

11. The surveying apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a memory device that stores error data, which data is the angle between the optical axis of the telescopic optical system and the optical axis of the imaging optical system.

12. The surveying apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a superimposing device that superimposes said point mark onto the image using the error data.

13. The surveying apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising a superimposing device that superimposes said point mark onto the image using the error data.

14. The surveying apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising a superimposing device that superimposes said point mark onto the image using the error data.

15. The surveying apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the superimposing device superimposes said point mark onto the image using the error data when the power of the surveying apparatus is on.

16. The surveying apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the adjusting device moves the image and the point mark relative to each other, when the power of the surveying apparatus is on.

17. The surveying apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the superimposing device superimposes said point mark onto the image using the error data before the surveying object is surveyed.

18. The surveying apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the adjusting device moves the image and the point mark relative to each other, before the surveying object is surveyed.

19. A surveying apparatus comprising:

a telescope that collimates an aiming point on a surveying object;

a digital camera that captures an image of the surveying object;

a point mark that indicates the location of the aiming point;

a superimposing device that superimposes said point mark onto the image; and

a selecting device that decides whether the superimposing device superimposes said point mark onto the image.

20. The surveying apparatus according to claim 19, further comprising a memory device that stores the image and a superimposed image which includes the image and the point mark.

21. The surveying apparatus according to claim 19, further comprising a memory device that stores the image and location information which indicates the location of the aiming point in the image.

22. The surveying apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the location information is represented by a relative position between the center of the image and the aiming point.

23. The surveying apparatus according to claim 20, wherein the memory device stores the image and the location information in separate files.

24. The surveying apparatus according to claim 23, wherein the memory device stores a file having the location information of an image and information which associates the location information with the image.

25. The surveying apparatus according to claim 19, further comprising an image data producing device, producing image data which comprises a surveying object layer for recording the image and a mark layer for recording the point mark.

26. The surveying apparatus according to claim 25, further comprising a memory device storing the image data.