An Integrated Visual Imaging System

Abstract

All Remotely Operated Vehicles carry some form of imaging system, the basic being a monochrome, low-light type, television camera. This is the minimum system and most vehicles also deploy a Colour TV camera and a 35mm or 70mm still photographics camera. Some applications (pipe survey) may, in fact, require two inspection (colour) cameras and some vehicles also have a rear view camera. Traditionally, the three separate functions (navigation, inspection and photographic still cameras) have been performed by cameras installed on vehicles as separate units and while this can be quite satisfactory, there are many cases where problems can occur and this separate unit approach may not give the optimum performance.