Teijin Limited

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Sumio Kato

Hirofumi Murooka

Kenji Taira

Masami Etchu

Hideaki Maehara

Hideo Katoh

Nobuo Minobe

Momoyo Hino

Momoyo Nagase

Yoshihiro Oba

Ryoga Suzuki

An attitude estimation apparatus () includes: a data acquiring unit () for acquiring observation data; a range-measurement point coordinate calculator (A) for calculating geodetic coordinates of a range-measurement point in a geodetic coordinate system using positioning data, ranging data, actual attitude data, and an estimated value of an unknown parameter representing an attitude of a flying object; an image coordinate calculator (B) for calculating coordinates of a projected point by performing projection transformation from the geodetic coordinate system to an image coordinate system on the geodetic coordinates; an image matching processor () for detecting image coordinates of the range-measurement point appearing in a first captured image by executing image matching between the first captured image and a second captured image selected from captured images; and an attitude estimator () for correcting the estimated value such that a magnitude of a difference between the coordinates of the projected point and the image coordinates decreases.

Attitude estimation apparatus, attitude estimation method, and observation system

Image matching on a pair of image data about images which are shot at different shooting positions is performed, and a point corresponding to the coordinates of a distance measurement point on the image shown by one image data of the pair is searched through the image shown by the other image data of the pair. The value of a parameter showing the attitude of an airplane () is corrected in such a way that the difference between the coordinates of the distance measurement point on the image shown by the other image data of the pair and the coordinates of the corresponding point which is searched for via the image matching becomes small, to estimate the attitude of the airplane ().

Navigation system and survey system

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Sumio Kato