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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022
Filed:
May. 21, 2020
Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc., Livermore, CA (US);
Dmitry Vitalievich Tatarnikov, Moscow, RU;
Leonid Valerianovich Edelman, Moscow, RU;
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Pimenov, St. Petersburg, RU;
Michail Nikolaevich Smirnov, St. Petersburg, RU;
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Penkrat, St. Petersburg, RU;
Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc., Livermore, CA (US);
Abstract
A vehicular positioning system utilizing multiple optical cameras having contiguous fields of view for reading coded markers having pre-determined positions for determining the position of vehicle inside a structure with a high degree of accuracy. The vehicle positioning system provides for the direct installation and use of a positioning apparatus on a vehicle with a limited number of coded markers to determine the vehicle's position to within millimeter level accuracy.