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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Nobuhiro Tani, Tokyo, JP;
Shuzo Seo, Saitama, JP;
Shinichi Kakiuchi, Saitama, JP;
Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 3/08 ; G01C 9/00 ; G01B 1/126 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 3/08 ; G01C 9/00 ; G01B 1/126 ;
Abstract
A ground positioning system integrated with a distance measuring device that detects the distance from the device to a selected object for each pixel of the captured image of the selected object. The system, which also includes an azimuth sensor, calculates ground positioning coordinates of a selected object that correspond to a certain pixel of captured image using distance information, device ground positioning coordinates and device direction information.