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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
May. 19, 2014
Tadano Ltd., Kagawa, JP;
Kazuya Tanizumi, Kagawa, JP;
Iwao Ishikawa, Kagawa, JP;
Kazuaki Tsuda, Kagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Yamauchi, Kagawa, JP;
Keisuke Tamaki, Kagawa, JP;
Masayuki Munekiyo, Kagawa, JP;
TADANO LTD., Kagawa, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a monitoring camera () at a tip of a boom, a monitor () configured to display a captured image of a hook suspended from the tip of the boom, an attitude angle calculation device () configured to calculate, based on hook image position information on a screen displayed on the monitor () and hook position information in a real space, an attitude angle of the camera, and the attitude angle calculation device () includes a hook position calculation unit () configured to calculate a hook position on the screen actually displayed on the monitor (), a shift amount calculation unit () configured to calculate the distance between the hook position calculated by the hook position calculation unit () and a reference hook position of the hook on the screen displayed on the monitor () when it is assumed that the camera faces directly downward, and a camera inclination angle calculation unit () configured to calculate an inclination angle of the monitoring camera () based on the difference and a distance in a height direction from an optical axis center position of the monitoring camera () to the hook.