Target for photogrammetric analytical measurement system

• US 6,487,517 B2
• Filed: 05/23/2001
• Issued: 11/26/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Pentax Corporation (Hoya Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Pentax Corporation (Hoya Corporation)
• Inventors: Sakai, Teruo, Kaneko, Atsumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hilten, John S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BHAT, ADITYA S
• Application Number:
  US09/862,616
• Publication Number:
  US 20010055483A1
• Time in Patent Office: 552 Days
• Field of Search: 382/154, 353/7, 352/208, 356/12, 348/148, 250/558, 250/201.7
• US Class Current: 702/158
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 11/00 Photogrammetry or videogrammetry, e.g. stereogrammetry; Photographic surveying
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 15/06 Surveyors' staffs; Movable markers

Abstract

A control unit box and one of standard point members are provided close to a connection of first and second bars. A standard plane is defined by the standard point members. A loop antenna is provided in a mount unit situated on the top surface of the control unit box. The box is positioned such that a ratio of a second distance to a first distance is less than tan 8°. The first distance is from the point member to the mount unit, along the standard plane, and the second distance is from the standard plane to the top surface of the mount unit, along a direction perpendicular to the standard plane. The antenna is connected to an oscillator of 310 MHz. With respect to the antenna, the total length is approximately 0.48 m, a height from the top surface of the unit box is approximately 9.5 mm, and the inner diameter is approximately 25 mm.

Claims

1. A target for photogrammetric analytical measurement system comprising:

a first bar and a second bar which are connected at adjacent end portions;

indicating members that are able to be recognized in a photographed image by a camera, being placed on said first and second bars so as to define an identical plane;

a box in which sensors for detecting data utilized to calculate a photographing position of said camera, being provided on said first bar or said second bar at a position close to said connecting end portions;

a loop antenna that transmits said data detected by said sensors to an outer device; and

a projecting portion in which said loop antenna is provided, being placed on said box at a side at which said indicating members are placed on said first and second bars,

wherein, a relationship between a first distance K1 and a second distance K2 are defined by an expression to follow, said first distance K1 being along said identical plane between a first indicating member of said indicating members which is positioned close to said connecting end portions and said projecting portion, and said second distance K2 being along a direction perpendicular to said identical plane between a top surface of said projecting portion and said identical plane

2. The target of claim 1, wherein a total length of a conductor which is wound to construct said loop antenna is approximately half a wavelength of a radio wave sent from said loop antenna, an inner diameter of winding of said conductor is within a range between approximately 25 mm (millimeter) through 50 mm, and a distance, along said perpendicular direction, between said identical plane and said loop antenna is greater than or equal to approximately 8 mm.

3. The target of claim 1, wherein said projecting portion has a generally cylindrical configuration which is coaxial with a center axis of said loop antenna, said center axis existing on a bisector of said first indicating member and a second indicating member of said indicating members, which is placed on said first or second bar at which said box is provided, being adjacent to said first indicating member.

4. The target of claim 1, wherein said projecting portion comprises:

a holding member that holds said loop antenna, being fixed on said top surface of said box; and

a covering member that protects said loop antenna from outer side.

5. The target of claim 1, wherein said projecting portion is fixed on said top surface of said box, being made of resin, and said loop antenna is molded in said projecting portion.

6. The target of claim 1, wherein said box is positioned at an area of a right angle or an acute angle made by said first and second bars.

7. A target for a photogrammetric analytical measurement system comprising:

a first bar and a second bar which are connected at adjacent end portions;

indicating members that are able to be recognized in a photographed image by a camera, being placed on said first and second bars so as to define an identical plane;

means for equipping sensors for detecting data utilized to calculate a photographing position of said camera, being provided on said first bar or said second bar at a position close to said connecting end portions;

means for transmitting said data detected by said sensors to an outer device; and

means for mounting said transmitting means, being placed on said equipping means at a side at which said indicating members are placed on said first and second bars,

wherein, a relationship between a first distance K1 and a second distance K2 are defined by an expression to follow, said first distance K1 being along said identical plane between a first indicating member of said indicating members which is positioned close to said connecting end portion and said mounting means, and said second distance K2 being along a direction perpendicular to said identical plane between a top surface of said mounting means and said identical plane