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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2007
Set Svanholm, Sollentuna, SE;
Grégory Lepere, Sevran, FR;
Guillaume David, Noisy-le-Grand, FR;
Fredrik Gylesjö, Täby, SE;
Sven Johansson, Täby, SE;
Björn Magnusson, Danderyd, SE;
Set Svanholm, Sollentuna, SE;
Grégory Lepere, Sevran, FR;
Guillaume David, Noisy-le-Grand, FR;
Fredrik Gylesjö, Täby, SE;
Sven Johansson, Täby, SE;
Björn Magnusson, Danderyd, SE;
Trimble AB, Danderyd, SE;
Abstract
A distance measuring measurement instrument and a method for such a station for scanning a surface or volume of an object are disclosed. The measurement instrument includes a position calculating circuit adapted to calculate position data including at least horizontal and vertical angle and distance between the measurement instrument and the object. A plurality of points in each of a number of subsets of a scanning area of the object during a measurement session and, at detection of a new point in the new subset, information related to at least one point having a corresponding location in at least one preceding subset is used, wherein the preceding subset being adjacent to the new subset.