Patent ID: 7564488

Claim:
A surveying instrument, comprising a first image pickup unit for obtaining a first image of an object to be measured in a collimating direction, a second image pickup unit which has a higher magnification as compared to said first pickup unit and obtains a second image at a higher magnification as compared to said first image, a display unit which has a touch panel and displays the images obtained by said first image pickup unit and said second image pickup unit, a distance measuring optical system for projecting a distance measuring light to said object to be measured and for receiving a reflection light from said object to be measured, a collimating optical system in which said object to be measured can be observed via an objective lens, an erected image prism and an ocular lens, and a control unit for magnifying and displaying the first image and the second image on said display unit, wherein an optical axis of said distance measuring optical system, an optical axis of said collimating optical system, and an optical axis of said second image pickup unit are coaxial in part, and said second image pickup unit receives a luminous flux from said object to be measured via said erect image prism, wherein the images obtained by said first image pickup unit and said second image pickup unit are a first digital image and a second digital image respectively, wherein said control unit sets a position instructed by said touch panel as a collimating point and displays said first digital image and said second digital image with the collimating point as a center, at a desired magnification up to the magnification of said second image pickup unit, said control unit is adapted to magnify and to display said first digital image, and at a desired magnification above the magnification of said second digital image pickup unit, said control unit is adapted to magnify and to display said second image.