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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. 23, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2014
Applicant:
Trimble Navigation Limited, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Chad McFadden, Broomfield, CO (US);
Geoffrey Kirk, Broomfield, CO (US);
John Cameron, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Trimble Navigation Limited, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G01V 8/00 (2006.01); G06T 17/05 (2011.01); G01C 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0022 (2013.01); G01C 15/002 (2013.01); G01V 8/00 (2013.01); G06T 7/004 (2013.01); G06T 17/05 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01);
Abstract
A surveying system comprising a station and rover is used to make field measurements of a job site. The station at a first location has one or more cameras and one or more targets. The rover has one or more cameras and one or more targets. The rover is moved to a plurality of locations and images are acquired of the one or more targets of the station and/or the rover. The images are used to determine a spatial relationship between the first location and the plurality of locations.