Patent ID: 6842238

Claim:
A system for measuring the characteristic attitude parameters of a vehicle, comprising: a measurement site having two opposite sides, each side being associated with a respective pair of vehicle wheels; two measurement units each mounted to a respective one of the two opposite sides of said measurement site and each comprising at least one video camera oriented towards a target fixed with any orientation to a wheel positioned on the same side of said measurement site as the respective measurement unit; a second video camera forming part of one of said measurement units and having a field of view oriented towards a further target associated with the other one of said measurement units; processor means for the images acquired by said at least one video camera of each of said measurement units and said second video camera to define the spatial position of the targets with respect to a single reference system; and display means which display the data provided by said processor means, wherein each of said video cameras is movable relative to said measurement site to acquire at least two images of a respective target from at least two different positions.