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Abstract

A vehicle collects oblique imagery along a nominal heading using rotated camera-groups with optional distortion correcting electronic image sensors that align projected pixel columns or rows with a pre-determined direction on the ground, thereby improving collection quality, efficiency, and/or cost. In a first aspect, the camera-groups are rotated diagonal to the nominal heading. In a second aspect, the distortion correcting electronic image sensors align projected pixel columns or rows with a pre determined direction on the ground. In a third aspect, the distortion correcting electronic image sensors are rotated around the optical axis of the camera. In a fourth aspect, cameras collect images in strips and the strips from different cameras overlap, providing large-baseline, small-time difference stereopsis.

IPC Classes  ?

• H04N 5/232 - Devices for controlling television cameras, e.g. remote control
• H04N 5/369 - SSIS architecture; Circuitry associated therewith
• H04N 5/33 - Transforming infrared radiation
• H04N 5/235 - Circuitry for compensating for variation in the brightness of the object
• G06T 7/00 - Image analysis
• G06T 5/50 - Image enhancement or restoration by the use of more than one image, e.g. averaging, subtraction
• G08G 5/00 - Traffic control systems for aircraft
• H04N 7/18 - Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• H04N 5/247 - Arrangement of television cameras
• H04N 5/357 - Noise processing, e.g. detecting, correcting, reducing or removing noise
• G01C 11/02 - Picture-taking arrangements specially adapted for photogrammetry or photographic surveying, e.g. controlling overlapping of pictures

Abstract

A vehicle collects oblique imagery along an intercardinal nominal heading using rotated camera-groups with distortion correcting electronic image sensors that align projected pixel columns or rows with a pre-determined direction on the ground, thereby improving collection quality, efficiency, and/or cost. In a first aspect, the camera-groups are rotated diagonal to the nominal heading. In a second aspect, the distortion correcting electronic image sensors align projected pixel columns or rows with a pre-determined direction on the ground. In a third aspect, the distortion correcting electronic image sensors are rotated around the optical axis of the camera. In a fourth aspect, cameras collect images in strips and the strips from different cameras overlap, providing large-baseline, small-time difference stereopsis.

IPC Classes  ?

• H04N 5/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details of television systems
• H04N 5/232 - Devices for controlling television cameras, e.g. remote control
• H04N 7/18 - Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• H04N 5/369 - SSIS architecture; Circuitry associated therewith
• H04N 5/33 - Transforming infrared radiation
• H04N 5/235 - Circuitry for compensating for variation in the brightness of the object
• G06T 7/00 - Image analysis

Abstract

A hybrid stabilizer isolates a payload from vibrations across six degrees of freedom using an underdamped passive stabilizer in series with an active stabilizer that is mounted to the foundation, thereby improving isolation. In a first aspect, the passive stabilizer is one or more underdamped springs that reduce high frequency vibrations and in some embodiments the passive stabilizer is tuned to a resonant frequency at most half the control loop frequency of the active stabilizer. The active stabilizer is a six-axis motion platform that reduces or eliminates low frequency vibrations, particularly around the resonant frequency of the passive stabilizer. In a second aspect, the hybrid stabilizer isolates one or more cameras and is mounted to a vehicle, reducing motion blur and improving camera tracking, thereby enhancing the quality of images captured by the cameras.

IPC Classes  ?

• H04N 5/225 - Television cameras
• H04N 5/232 - Devices for controlling television cameras, e.g. remote control
• G02B 27/64 - Imaging systems using optical elements for stabilisation of the lateral and angular position of the image

Abstract

A vehicle collects oblique imagery along an intercardinal nominal heading using rotated camera-groups with distortion correcting electronic image sensors that align projected pixel columns or rows with a pre-determined direction on the ground, thereby improving collection quality, efficiency, and/or cost. In a first aspect, the camera-groups are rotated diagonal to the nominal heading. In a second aspect, the distortion correcting electronic image sensors align projected pixel columns or rows with a pre-determined direction on the ground. In a third aspect, the distortion correcting electronic image sensors are rotated around the optical axis of the camera. In a fourth aspect, cameras collect images in strips and the strips from different cameras overlap, providing large-baseline, small-time difference stereopsis.

IPC Classes  ?

• H04N 5/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details of television systems
• H04N 7/18 - Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• H04N 5/232 - Devices for controlling television cameras, e.g. remote control
• G06T 5/50 - Image enhancement or restoration by the use of more than one image, e.g. averaging, subtraction
• G08G 5/00 - Traffic control systems for aircraft

Abstract

A vehicle collects oblique imagery along an intercardinal nominal heading using rotated camera-groups with distortion correcting electronic image sensors that align projected pixel columns or rows with a pre-determined direction on the ground, thereby improving collection quality, efficiency, and/or cost. In a first aspect, the camera-groups are rotated diagonal to the nominal heading. In a second aspect, the distortion correcting electronic image sensors align projected pixel columns or rows with a pre-determined direction on the ground. In a third aspect, the distortion correcting electronic image sensors are rotated around the optical axis of the camera. In a fourth aspect, cameras collect images in strips and the strips from different cameras overlap, providing large-baseline, small-time difference stereopsis.

IPC Classes  ?

• H04N 5/00 - PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - Details of television systems
• H04N 7/18 - Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• H04N 5/232 - Devices for controlling television cameras, e.g. remote control
• G06T 5/50 - Image enhancement or restoration by the use of more than one image, e.g. averaging, subtraction
• G08G 5/00 - Traffic control systems for aircraft