US 11,900,669 B2
Calibration device and calibration method
Keiichi Mitani, Tokyo (JP); Kazuyuki Tajima, Tokyo (JP); and Kazuyoshi Yamazaki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/528,582.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-201534 (JP), filed on Dec. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0180086 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. G06V 20/00 (2022.01); G06V 20/13 (2022.01); G06V 20/54 (2022.01); G06V 10/147 (2022.01); G06V 10/22 (2022.01); G06F 18/22 (2023.01); G06F 18/00 (2023.01); G06F 18/231 (2023.01)
CPC G06V 20/13 (2022.01) [G06F 18/00 (2023.01); G06F 18/22 (2023.01); G06F 18/231 (2023.01); G06V 10/147 (2022.01); G06V 10/22 (2022.01); G06V 20/54 (2022.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A calibration device which performs a calibration between a plurality of imaging devices, each of which outputs field-of-view information which is information on a field-of-view of the imaging device itself, the field-of-view information including a bitmap image and a range image, the calibration device comprising:
a state estimation part configured to
detect, in a field of view of a first imaging device, a single image of a second imaging device, and
estimate a relative position and a relative attitude of the second imaging device with respect to the first imaging device, solely based on the single detected image;
a transformation information calculation part configured to calculate transformation information between a coordinate system of the first imaging device and a coordinate system of the second imaging device, based on the estimated relative position and relative attitude, wherein the range image is an image in which range information is added to each pixel of the range image; and
wherein each of the imaging devices is an aerial imaging device without a stationary position; and
wherein each of the imaging devices is capable of measuring a distance between itself and a target and distance between the imaging devices is not known beforehand.