Patents Assigned to nearmap australia pty ltd.
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Patent number: 9824290Abstract: A method of creating a orthomosaic of a corridor area, the corridor area at least partially described by a corridor path, the method comprising flying an aircraft along a primary flight line approximating the corridor path and capturing a sequence of primary images; flying the aircraft along a secondary flight line substantially parallel to the corridor path and capturing a sequence of secondary images; identifying, in the primary images and secondary images, common features corresponding to common ground points; estimating, via bundle adjustment and from the common ground points, an exterior orientation associated with each primary image and a three-dimensional position associated with each ground point; orthorectifying, using at least some of the exterior orientations and at least some of the three-dimensional ground point positions, at least some of the primary images; and merging the orthorectified primary images to create the orthomosaic.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: nearmap Australia Pty Ltd.Inventors: Andrew Millin, Russell Alan Rogers, Paul Lapstun
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Patent number: 9706117Abstract: A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising at least one camera unit, the at least one camera unit comprising at least one detail camera, the pointing direction of the at least one detail camera time-multiplexed via a steerable mirror to implement a virtual array of cameras with overlapping fields of view, thereby to allow the at least one detail camera to capture an extended field of view.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2015Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: nearmap Australia Pty Ltd.Inventors: Paul Lapstun, Mark Harold Tarlinton, David Arnold Bleads
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Publication number: 20170195569Abstract: A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising four steerable detail camera modules, each steerable detail camera module comprising a detail camera and a beam-steering mechanism in an optical path of the detail camera module whereby the pointing direction of the detail camera is time-multiplexed to provide a wider effective field of view, the beam-steering mechanism comprising a first steerable mirror.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Applicant: nearmap Australia Pty Ltd.Inventors: Paul Lapstun, Todd William Lupton, Mark Harold Tarlinton, David Arnold Bleads, Zoltan Toth, Andrew Millin
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Patent number: 9641736Abstract: A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising four steerable detail camera modules, each steerable detail camera module comprising a detail camera and a beam-steering mechanism in an optical path of the detail camera module whereby the pointing direction of the detail camera is time-multiplexed to provide a wider effective field of view, the beam-steering mechanism comprising a first steerable mirror.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: nearmap Australia Pty Ltd.Inventors: Paul Lapstun, Todd William Lupton, Mark Harold Tarlinton, David Arnold Bleads, Zoltan Toth, Andrew Millin
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Patent number: 9462185Abstract: A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising at least one steerable camera module, the steerable camera module comprising a camera and a beam-steering mechanism in the optical path of the camera module whereby the pointing direction of the camera is time-multiplexed to provide a wider effective field of view, the beam-steering mechanism comprising a steerable mirror tilted with respect to an optical axis of the camera module, the steerable mirror adapted to spin about the optical axis to effect beam steering.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: nearmap Australia Pty Ltd.Inventors: Paul Lapstun, Todd William Lupton, Mark Harold Tarlinton, David Arnold Bleads, Zoltan Toth, Andrew Millin
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Patent number: 9440750Abstract: A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising at least one camera unit, the camera unit comprising a plurality of steerable detail camera modules, each steerable detail camera module comprising a detail camera and a beam-steering mechanism in the optical path of the camera whereby the pointing direction of the camera is time-multiplexed to provide a wider effective field of view.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2015Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: nearmap Australia Pty Ltd.Inventors: Paul Lapstun, Todd William Lupton, Mark Harold Tarlinton, David Arnold Bleads, Zoltan Toth, Andrew Millin
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Publication number: 20160229555Abstract: A method of creating a orthomosaic of a corridor area, the corridor area at least partially described by a corridor path, the method comprising flying an aircraft along a primary flight line approximating the corridor path and capturing a sequence of primary images; flying the aircraft along a secondary flight line substantially parallel to the corridor path and capturing a sequence of secondary images; identifying, in the primary images and secondary images, common features corresponding to common ground points; estimating, via bundle adjustment and from the common ground points, an exterior orientation associated with each primary image and a three-dimensional position associated with each ground point; orthorectifying, using at least some of the exterior orientations and at least some of the three-dimensional ground point positions, at least some of the primary images; and merging the orthorectified primary images to create the orthomosaic.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2015Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicant: nearmap Australia Pty Ltd.Inventors: Andrew Millin, Russell Alan Rogers, Paul Lapstun
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Publication number: 20160150142Abstract: A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising four steerable detail camera modules, each steerable detail camera module comprising a detail camera and a beam-steering mechanism in an optical path of the detail camera module whereby the pointing direction of the detail camera is time-multiplexed to provide a wider effective field of view, the beam-steering mechanism comprising a first steerable mirror.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2016Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: Nearmap Australia Pty Ltd.Inventors: Paul LAPSTUN, Todd William LUPTON, Mark Harold TARLINTON, David Arnold BLEADS, Zoltan TOTH, Andrew MILLIN
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Publication number: 20160057345Abstract: A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising at least one steerable camera module, the steerable camera module comprising a camera and a beam-steering mechanism in the optical path of the camera module whereby the pointing direction of the camera is time-multiplexed to provide a wider effective field of view, the beam-steering mechanism comprising a steerable mirror tilted with respect to an optical axis of the camera module, the steerable mirror adapted to spin about the optical axis to effect beam steering.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: nearmap Australia Pty Ltd.Inventors: Paul Lapstun, Todd William Lupton, Mark Harold Tarlinton, David Arnold Bleads, Zoltan Toth, Andrew Millin
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Publication number: 20150367958Abstract: A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising at least one camera unit, the camera unit comprising a plurality of steerable detail camera modules, each steerable detail camera module comprising a detail camera and a beam-steering mechanism in the optical path of the camera whereby the pointing direction of the camera is time-multiplexed to provide a wider effective field of view.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: nearmap Australia Pty Ltd.Inventors: Paul LAPSTUN, Todd William LUPTON, Mark Harold TARLINTON, David Arnold BLEADS, Zoltan TOTH, Andrew MILLIN
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Publication number: 20150373267Abstract: A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising at least one camera unit, the at least one camera unit comprising at least one detail camera, the pointing direction of the at least one detail camera time-multiplexed via a steerable mirror to implement a virtual array of cameras with overlapping fields of view, thereby to allow the at least one detail camera to capture an extended field of view.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: NEARMAP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.Inventors: Paul LAPSTUN, Mark Harold TARLINTON, David Arnold BLEADS
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Publication number: 20150353205Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed relating to acquisition of images regarding large area objects or large areas. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method of obtaining or capturing, via a first system that includes one or more first image capturing devices, overview images, wherein the overview images depict first areas, as well as obtaining or capturing, via a second system that includes a plurality of image capturing devices, detail images characterized as being related to each other along an image axis. Moreover, the detail images may depict second areas that are subsets of the first areas, they may be arranged in strips parallel to the image axis, and they may have a higher resolution than corresponding portions of the first images.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2013Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicant: nearmap australia pty ltdInventor: Nearmap Australia Pty ltd
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Patent number: 9188838Abstract: A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising at least one overview camera, a plurality of detail cameras, and a frame for holding the cameras, each detail camera having a longer focal length than the at least one overview camera, each detail camera mounted at a different angle laterally so that the fields of view of the detail cameras overlap to form an extended lateral field of view, the frame comprising a center support, each side of the center support supporting at least some of the cameras.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2015Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: nearmap Australia Pty Ltd.Inventors: Mark Harold Tarlinton, David Arnold Bleads, Paul Lapstun
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Patent number: 9185290Abstract: A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising at least one steerable camera module, the steerable camera module comprising a camera and a beam-steering mechanism in the optical path of the camera module whereby the pointing direction of the camera is time-multiplexed to provide a wider effective field of view, the beam-steering mechanism comprising a steerable mirror tilted with respect to an optical axis of the camera module, the steerable mirror adapted to spin about the optical axis to effect beam steering.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2015Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: nearmap Australia Pty LtdInventors: Paul Lapstun, Todd William Lupton, Mark Harold Tarlinton, David Arnold Bleads, Zoltan Toth, Andrew Millin
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Patent number: 9052571Abstract: A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising at least one camera unit, the camera unit comprising at least one overview camera, a plurality of detail cameras, and a frame for holding the cameras, each detail camera having a longer focal length than the at least one overview camera, each detail camera mounted at a different angle laterally so that the fields of view of the detail cameras overlap to form an extended lateral field of view.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2014Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: nearmap Australia Pty Ltd.Inventors: Paul Lapstun, Mark Harold Tarlinton, David Arnold Bleads
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Patent number: 9046759Abstract: A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising at least one overview camera, a plurality of detail cameras, and a frame for holding the cameras, each detail camera having a longer focal length than the at least one overview camera, each detail camera mounted at a different angle laterally so that the fields of view of the detail cameras overlap to form an extended lateral field of view, the frame attachable to the floor of an aircraft above a camera hole, thereby providing the cameras with a view of the ground below the aircraft through the camera hole.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2014Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: nearmap Australia Pty Ltd.Inventors: Mark Harold Tarlinton, David Arnold Bleads, Paul Lapstun
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Patent number: 8675068Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed relating to acquisition of images regarding large area objects or large areas. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method of obtaining or capturing, via a first system that includes one or more first image capturing devices, overview images, wherein the overview images depict first areas, as well as obtaining or capturing, via a second system that includes a plurality of image capturing devices, detail images characterized as being related to each other along an image axis. Moreover, the detail images may depict second areas that are subsets of the first areas, they may be arranged in strips parallel to the image axis, and they may have a higher resolution than corresponding portions of the first images.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2008Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Nearmap Australia Pty LtdInventor: Stuart Nixon
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Publication number: 20130235199Abstract: A method and system are presented in which images are captured from overview and detail imaging devices such that overview images are created with a first degree of redundancy, and detail images are captured with less overlap and a second degree of redundancy.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: nearmap australia pty ltdInventor: Stuart William NIXON
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Patent number: 8497905Abstract: A method and system are presented in which images are captured from overview and detail imaging devices such that overview images are created with a first degree of redundancy, and detail images are captured with less overlap and a second degree of redundancy.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2009Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: nearmap australia pty ltd.Inventor: Stuart William Nixon