Topcon Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon

Mitsuharu Yamada

Hitoshi Otani

Nobuo Kochi

Tadayuki Ito

Hiroyuki Aoki

Hirokazu Sato

Fumio Ohtomo

Kazuki Osaragi

Tetsuji Anai

Nobuyuki Fukaya

Takayuki Noma

The invention provides a camera for photogrammetry, which comprises a shafttiltably supported in any direction via a gimbal, a GPS device having a GPS antennainstalled on an upper end of said shaft, and a photographic device main unitinstalled on a lower end of said shaft, wherein optical axis of said photographic device main unit is designed so as to direct in vertical and downward direction, said photographic device main unit has an image pickup unitinstalled in a known relation with said GPS antenna and a control device for controlling image pickup of said image pickup unit, and said control devicecontrols said image pickup unit so that still image is acquired by the image pickup unit, and an image pickup position at the time of image pickup is obtained by said GPS device.

Camera for photogrammetry and aerial photographic device

The present invention provides a model forming apparatus that can simply and efficiently form a three-dimensional model of an object using previously obtained three-dimensional model data of the object as a starting point. The apparatus comprises a photographing sectionfor photographing an object, an image data storage sectionfor storing three-dimensional model data of the object, a display sectionfor displaying a three-dimensional model based on the three-dimensional model data of the object, a recognition sectionfor recognizing an unmodeled part of the objectbased on the three-dimensional model data stored in the image data storage section, and a photographing instruction information sectionfor obtaining photographing instruction information related to photographing the unmodeled part. The photographing sectionphotographs the objectin accordance with the photographing instruction information obtained by the photographing instruction information section.

Model forming apparatus, model forming method, photographing apparatus and photographing method

The present invention provides a model forming apparatus that can simply and efficiently form a three-dimensional model of an object using previously obtained three-dimensional model data of the object as a starting point. The apparatus comprises a photographing sectionfor photographing an object, an image data storage sectionfor storing three-dimensional model data of the object, a display sectionfor displaying a three-dimensional model based on the three-dimensional model data of the object, a recognition sectionfor recognizing an unmodeled part of the objectbased on the three-dimensional model data stored in the image data storage section, and a photographing instruction information sectionfor obtaining photographing instruction information related to photographing the unmodeled part. The photographing sectionphotographs the objectin accordance with the photographing instruction information obtained by the photographing instruction information section

An image processing apparatus comprises an inputting section for inputting a plurality of continuous images which were photographed by a photographing section progressively moving relative to a photographed object; an extracting section for extracting characteristic points from images input by the inputting section; a tracking section for tracking the points corresponding to the characteristic points in the plurality of continuous images; an embedding section for embedding tracking data, which includes data of extracted and tracked points by the extracting section and the tracking section, into each image; and an outputting section for outputting the plurality of continuous images sequentially in which the tracking data was embedded by the embedding section.

Image processing apparatus

A three-dimensional field for calibration having a wide-angle areaand a zooming arealocated within an area overlapped with the wide-angle areacomprises: a plurality of rough alignment reference marksfor zooming and a plurality of precise alignment reference marksfor zooming, and the rough alignment reference marksand the precise alignment reference marksfor zooming being arranged within the zooming area; and a plurality of rough alignment reference marksfor wide-angle and a plurality of precise alignment reference marksfor wide-angle, the rough alignment reference marksand the precise alignment referencemarks for wide-angle being arranged within the wide-angle area

Three-dimensional field for calibration and method of photographing the same

A stereo image displaying device comprising: a feature element specifying sectionfor specifying feature elements contained in a pair of stereo images taken with a stereo image taking sectionan image controlling sectionfor controlling the stereo images based on the positions of the specified feature elements in the stereo images to provide finished stereo images; and a displaying sectionfor displaying the finished stereo images in stereovision.

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Tokyo, Japan

Mitsuharu Yamada