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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2014
Trimble Navigation Limited, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard Rudow, Mesa, AZ (US);
Venkateswaran Kasirajan, Tamil Nadu, IN;
Robert Wold, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Nicholas C. Talbot, Ashburton, AU;
Peter Van Wyck Loomis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shawn D. Weisenburger, Denver, CO (US);
James M. Janky, Los Altos, CA (US);
Michael V. McCusker, Los Altos, CA (US);
Trimble Navigation Limited, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A known fixed relationship is maintained between an external electronic distance measurement accessory and a mobile data collection platform that are physically coupled together. A light beam axis of the external electronic distance measurement accessory is parallel with an optical axis of an entrance pupil of the mobile data collection platform. The external electronic distance measurement accessory integrates with the mobile data collection platform. The external electronic distance measurement accessory receives control instructions from the mobile data collection platform.