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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
May. 28, 2014
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Tokki Systems Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hideaki Ochimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Nishino, Tokyo, JP;
Hidenobu Tsuji, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuki Kotake, Tokyo, JP;
Masaharu Imaki, Tokyo, JP;
Shumpei Kameyama, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Saito, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric TOKKI Systems Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A system controllerdetermines whether the quality of either a distance image or a light intensity image satisfies reference quality, and, when the quality of either the distance image or the light intensity image dos not satisfy the reference quality, outputs a speed change command to lower a speed, an altitude change command to change a submarine altitude (depth), or the like to a navigation control unit, thereby changing a physical relative relation between a measurement planeand a device in question. As an alternative, the system controller changes a beam scanning rate f, a beam divergence θ, or the like within limits at which the amount of variation in a spatial resolution does not exceed a permissible amount.