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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2013
Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo-to, JP;
Fumio Ohtomo, Saitama, JP;
Hitoshi Otani, Tokyo-to, JP;
Kazuki Osaragi, Tokyo-to, JP;
Mitsuharu Yamada, Tokyo-to, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON, Tokyo-to, JP;
Abstract
The invention provides a camera for photogrammetry, which comprises a shafttiltably supported in any direction via a gimbal, a GPS device having a GPS antennainstalled on an upper end of said shaft, and a photographic device main unitinstalled on a lower end of said shaft, wherein optical axis of said photographic device main unit is designed so as to direct in vertical and downward direction, said photographic device main unit has an image pickup unitinstalled in a known relation with said GPS antenna and a control device for controlling image pickup of said image pickup unit, and said control devicecontrols said image pickup unit so that still image is acquired by the image pickup unit, and an image pickup position at the time of image pickup is obtained by said GPS device.