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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2019
Applicant:
Safran Vectronix Ag, Heerbrugg, CH;
Inventor:
Holger Kirschner, Widnau, CH;
Assignee:
SAFRAN VECTRONIX AG, Heerbrugg, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/06 (2006.01); G01C 9/08 (2006.01); G01C 19/02 (2006.01); G01C 21/08 (2006.01); G02B 23/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/06 (2013.01); G01C 9/08 (2013.01); G01C 19/02 (2013.01); G01C 21/08 (2013.01); G02B 23/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention relates to an observation device having a location determination functionality for the high-accuracy determination of the spatial location and thus the position and orientation (for example, Euler angles: azimuth, elevation angle, and roll angle) of the observation device by analysis of a recorded camera image of the terrain surrounding the camera by means of the three-dimensional map information of a digital terrain model (DTM). For this purpose, the observation device comprises a camera having an objective lens and a camera sensor, a data memory, a sensor system, an analysis unit, and a display screen.