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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1998
Yoichi Takagi, Hitachi, JP;
Takatoshi Kodaira, Musashino, JP;
Yoshiki Kobayashi, Hitachi, JP;
Masao Takatou, Hitachinaka, JP;
Hirotomo Horita, Chiba, JP;
Kunizo Sakai, Hitachi, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention has an object to measure the height of a liquid surface automatically by an image processing. According to the present invention, therefore, the situation over a side wall and the situation of the liquid surface in the image, as taken from an ITV camera, of the neighborhood of the liquid surface are image-analyzed to estimate the boundary position between the side wall and the liquid surface thereby to determine the position of the liquid surface on the image, and the liquid-surface position on the image is transformed from an image coordinate system to a real spatial coordinate system to determine a real position of the liquid surface.