US 6,633,326 B2Granted

Device for capturing images three-dimensionally

AssigneeSanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

InventorsShinpei Fukumoto, Hiroshi Kano, Hideto Fujita, Hiroaki Yoshida

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Abstract

The invention provides a device for capturing images three-dimensionally which comprises a rail 2 extending around a three-dimensional object images of which are to be captured, an image pickup head 3 movable along the rail 2, a signal cable 8 interconnecting a head terminal 81 on the head 3 and a signal relay terminal 82 on the rail 2, an auxiliary cable 83 interconnecting a head-side connecting point 85 on the head 3 and a rail-side connecting point 84 on the rail 2, and a connecting member 9 having the signal cable 8 and the auxiliary cable 83 slidably reeved therearound for turning back the cables in directions opposite to each other. The signal cable 8 extends from the head terminal 81 in one direction, is turned back on the connecting member 9 and extends to the signal relay terminal 82, while the auxiliary cable 83 extends from the head-side connecting point 85 in the opposite direction, is turned back on the connecting member 9 and extends to the rail-side connecting point 84.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A device which captures three-dimensional object images, the device for capturing images three-dimensionally comprising:

a rail (2) extending in the form of a loop around the three-dimensional object images of which are to be captured,
an image pickup head (3) movable along the rail (2),
a signal cable (8) interconnecting a head terminal (81) provided on the image pickup head (3) and a signal relay terminal (82) provided at a specified position relative to the rail (2),
an auxiliary cable (83) interconnecting a head-side connecting point (85) provided on the image pickup head (3) and a rail-side connecting point (84) provided at specified position relative to the rail (2) and in the vicinity of the signal relay terminal (82), and
a connecting member (9) movable along the rail (2) and having the signal cable (8) and the auxiliary cable (83) slidably reeved therearound for turning back the cables in directions opposite to each other,
the signal cable (8) being provided along a path extending from the head terminal (81) in one direction along the rail (2), turned back on the connecting member (9) and extending along the rail (2) to the signal relay terminal (82), while the auxiliary cable (83) is provided along a path extending from the head-side connecting point (85) in the other direction opposite to said one direction along the rail (2), turned back on the connecting member (9) and extending along the rail (2) to the rail-side connecting point (84).

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Facts

Application: 09/964,644Filed 28 Sep 2001
Priority: JP 2000-29937629 Sep 2000
Published: US 2002/0039134 A14 Apr 2002
Granted: 14 Oct 2003
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04N 13/221
Using a single two-dimensional [2D] image sensor: using the relative movement between cameras and objects
G06T 1/0007
General purpose image data processing: image acquisition
H04N 13/239
Using stereoscopic image cameras: using two two-dimensional [2D] image sensors having a relative position equal to or related to the interocular…
H04N 2013/0081
Stereoscopic image analysis: depth or disparity estimation from stereoscopic image signals