Patent ID: 6791492
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: G01C,G01S

Abstract:
A GPS positioning system, comprising a fixed station and a mobile station which is to be placed in plural imaging positions, wherein(a) said mobile station comprises: positional positioning means; imaging means; direction detecting means; and arithmetic processing means, (b) said imaging means of said mobile station is placed in plural imaging positions for photographing, (c) said positional positioning means of said mobile station is GPS positional positioning means for measuring each of positional coordinates of the plural imaging positions of said imaging means, by receiving radio wave signals from a satellite, (d) said direction detecting means of said mobile station detects a plurality of photographing directions during photographing by said imaging means while said imaging means is placed in each of the plural imaging positions, and (e) said arithmetic processing means obtains plural landscape data which comprises: (i) imaging data that is an output from said imaging means in each of the photographing directions while said imaging means is placed in each of the imaging positions, (ii) orientation data that is an output from said direction detecting means in each of the photographing directions while said imaging means is placed in each of the imaging positions, and (iii) positional coordinate data measured by said GPS positional positioning means at each of the imaging positions wherein the positional coordinate data are associated with the imaging data and the orientation data, wherein said arithmetic processing means synthesizes the plural landscape data at each of the imaging positions so as to obtain panoramic landscape data in each of the imaging positions.