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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2009
Kohei Kawazoe, Nagasaki, JP;
Tomoyoshi Baba, Nagasaki, JP;
Katsutoshi Ochiai, Nagasaki, JP;
Kiyotoshi Nishimura, Nagasaki, JP;
Toshiyuki Yamada, Nagasaki, JP;
Kohei Kawazoe, Nagasaki, JP;
Tomoyoshi Baba, Nagasaki, JP;
Katsutoshi Ochiai, Nagasaki, JP;
Kiyotoshi Nishimura, Nagasaki, JP;
Toshiyuki Yamada, Nagasaki, JP;
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A desired search area is efficiently monitored. A surveillance device that is installed in a flying aircraft in the sky and that monitors the situation at the sea surface from the sky, including a light-transmitting portion that is provided with a light source and that radiates a plurality of slit-like beams from the sky toward a search area at the sea surface, a light-receiving portion that receives a plurality of reflected beams that have been reflected at an object at the sea surface, and a processor that determines whether or not the object at the sea surface that has reflected the beams is a target object from information about the reflected beams obtained by the light-receiving portion.