Patent ID: 7300356
Filing Date: 2007-11-27
Classification: A63B,G06T

Abstract:
1. A measuring apparatus that measures a flying behavior of a spherical flying body, comprising: a recording portion that optically records a spherical flying body during flight at points in time with a predetermined interval of time, to obtain a first image and a second image of the spherical flying body; an image information computing portion that detects a first outline region of the flying body in the first image of the flying body and a second outline region of the flying body in the second image of the flying body, and finds first image information from the first image of the flying body in at least a portion of the first outline region and second image information from the second image of the flying body in the second outline region; and a rotation amount computing portion that maps the first image information to a surface of a first virtual spherical body, maps the second image information to a surface of a second virtual spherical body, and computes a rotation amount that is used for rotation processing such that the rotation processing is performed on the first virtual spherical body to obtain a highest correlation between the first image information on the surface of the first virtual spherical body and the second image information on the surface of the second virtual spherical body.