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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 20, 1999
Seiichi Mizui, Odawara, JP;
Komatsu Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
A topography measuring device which comprises a visual camera mounted on a vehicle for measuring a distance to subject topographical features to be measured; an absolute position detecting unit mounted on the vehicle for detecting a three-dimensional absolute position of the vehicle; a topographical coordinate measuring unit for determining three-dimensional position data on the subject topographical features of a vehicle coordinate system based on the image pickup data by the visual camera; a coordinate conversion unit for converting the three-dimensional position data on the subject topographical features of the vehicle coordinate system determined by the topographical coordinate measuring unit using detected data of the absolute position detecting unit into three-dimensional position data of an absolute coordinate system; an image pickup position instructing unit for instructing the vehicle on a plurality of different vehicle positions for taking the images of the subject topographical features by the image pickup unit; and a topographical data producing unit for producing topographical data on the subject topographical features by synthesizing the conversion data of the coordinate conversion unit based on the image pickup data of the visual camera at the plurality of different vehicle positions instructed by the image pickup position instructing unit, whereby topographical features of a mine, ground, working face and the like where the vehicle cannot move can be measured efficiently.