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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2015
Leica Geosystems Ag, Heerbrugg, CH;
Kurt Giger, Rüthi, CH;
LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG, Heerbrugg, CH;
Abstract
Some embodiment include a handheld distance measuring device having a laser distance meter for measuring distances to target points in an environment and an image acquisition unit for acquiring images of the environment, characterized by a control unit having program code for controlling a spatial modeling functionality having a measurement sequence, in the scope of which images of a region of the environment are acquired from different positions of the distance measuring device, these images having a shared image region, wherein the image acquisition unit assumes different, which represent the respective position and alignment of the distance measuring device, during the acquisition of the first image and the second image.