Surveying system

• US 9,354,054 B2
• Filed: 04/02/2014
• Issued: 05/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon
• Inventors: Kumagai, Kaoru, Kodaira, Jun-ichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Fulton, Christopher
• Application Number:
  US14/243,259
• Publication Number:
  US 20140304995A1
• Time in Patent Office: 790 Days
• Field of Search: 33/1.G, 332/67, 332/90, 332/92, 332/93
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 11/00 Photogrammetry or videogrammetry, e.g. stereogrammetry; Photographic surveying
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 15/004 Reference lines, planes or sectors
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 15/06 Surveyors' staffs; Movable markers
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 2009/066 optical
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 9/06 Electric or photoelectric indication or reading means

Abstract

The invention provides a surveying system, which comprises an electronic level and staff devices belonging to either one of two or more groups, wherein the staff device has staffs with bar codes corresponding to groups, to which a staff belongs, and mobile station devices installed on the staffs, wherein the mobile station device has a mobile station display unit to display working data and a mobile station communication unit for performing wireless communication to and from the electronic level, wherein the electronic level has an image pickup unit for acquiring images within a range of working, a control device for extracting staff images from the images, for identifying as to which group the bar code pattern of the extracted staff image belongs and for determining three-dimensional position of the staff based on the staff image, and a main communication unit for transmitting the three-dimensional position obtained to the mobile station device, and wherein the mobile station device displays the relation between the three-dimensional position of the staff as received and the working data on the mobile station display unit.

Claims

1. A surveying system, comprising an electronic level and staff devices belonging to either one of two or more groups, wherein said staff device has staffs with bar codes of a different bar code pattern per each group, to which a staff belongs, and mobile station devices installed on said staffs,

wherein said mobile station device has a mobile station display unit to display working data and a mobile station communication unit for performing wireless communication to and from said electronic level,

wherein said electronic level has an image pickup unit adapted to acquire images within a range of working, a control device configured so as to extract staff images from the images, to identify as to which group said staff belongs based on the bar code pattern of the extracted staff image and to determine three-dimensional position of said staff based on said staff image, and a main communication unit adapted to transmit the three-dimensional position obtained to said mobile station device,

and wherein said mobile station device is configured so as to display the relation between the three-dimensional position of said staff as received and said working data on said mobile station display unit.

2. A surveying system according to claim 1, wherein three-dimensional positions of staffs at two or more geographical points are set by said staff device belonging to each of the groups, and a reference plane is formed for each of the groups respectively.

3. A surveying system according to claim 2, wherein said staff device has a mobile station tilt sensor for detecting the tilting of said staffs, and corrects the results of distance measurement and the horizontal angle with respect to said staffs based on the detection results of said mobile station tilt sensor.

4. A surveying system according to claim 1, wherein said image pickup unit acquires an image so that an object of working is included therein, said mobile station display unit displays by classifying as to which of the two or more groups said object of working belongs, and displays survey setting points to be set with respect to said object of working, wherein said electronic level measures the three-dimensional position of a staff for each of the groups with respect to said staff device, transmits said three-dimensional position to said corresponding mobile station device, and displays the relation between said staff and said survey setting point.

5. A surveying system according to claim 4, wherein said staff device has a mobile station tilt sensor for detecting the tilting of said staffs, and corrects the results of distance measurement and the horizontal angle with respect to said staffs based on the detection results of said mobile station tilt sensor.

6. A surveying system according to claim 1, wherein said staff device has a mobile station tilt sensor for detecting the tilting of said staffs, and corrects the results of distance measurement and the horizontal angle with respect to said staffs based on the detection results of said mobile station tilt sensor.

7. A surveying system according to claim 1, wherein said electronic level has a rotary driving unit and is able to rotate in horizontal direction by said rotary driving unit, wherein said image pickup unit acquires a frame image at every predetermined time, or acquires the frame images continuously, wherein said control device extracts a staff image for each frame image respectively, and rotates said electronic level by controlling said rotary driving unit so that the extracted image does not deviate from the frame image, and so as to follow said staffs.

8. A surveying system according to claim 1, wherein said image pickup unit is a total circumferential camera, and a total circumferential image is acquired by said image pickup unit.