Patent Document ID: 20080148581
Application ID: 11832111
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for measuring the angles of inclination of the wheels of a motor vehicle, comprising the steps of: applying a plurality of markers to the wheels of the motor vehicle along a line approximately circumferential and substantially coaxial with the wheel; providing, at each wheel whose characteristic angles must be acquired, two image acquisition devices, with different inclinations with respect to said wheel; for each of said wheels, acquiring, by means of each of said two image acquisition devices, at least one image of said wheel with the relative markers; determining, through epipolar and triangulation geometrical calculations, the equation of an approximate plane in which said markers lie in space, with respect to a reference system, said plane being substantially parallel to the plane in which the wheel lies; determining the camber and toe angles of said wheel on the basis of the equation of said plane in which the markers lie and of the equation of reference planes with respect to which the motor vehicle takes a known position.