Patent ID: 8676408

Claim:
An unmanned aircraft comprising: a single housing including an optical system; a camera rotatable with said optical system and configured to receive a reception laser signal through an optical axis path including said optical system to generate an image in a field of view; a laser ranging system configured to output a laser beam as a laser signal through the optical axis path including said optical system and measure a distance to an object in the field of view based on the reception laser signal from the object through the optical axis path including said optical system; and a driving unit configured to continuously rotate said optical system and said camera around a rotation axis, wherein said driving unit rotates said laser ranging system around the rotation axis together with said optical system and said camera, wherein the unmanned aircraft further comprises a panoramic image data generating section, wherein said camera images a plurality of images at different angles of the rotation, respectively, and wherein said panoramic image data generating section generates panoramic image data by combining the plurality of images.