POSITIONING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF MEASURING POSITION OF MOVING BODY USING IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS

摘要

A first calculator calculates relative position and attitude of a vehicle based on images captured by an image capturing apparatus on the vehicle. A second calculator extracts one marker from a captured image, calculates absolute position and attitude of the vehicle based on a position and an attitude of the one extracted marker, and calculates an angle of a direction of the vehicle 1 with respect to a normal line to a plane of the one marker 4 based on a position and an attitude of the vehicle 1 in a marker coordinate system. A corrector generates a corrected position and attitude, not using the absolute position and attitude calculated based on the marker for which the angle is not larger than a first threshold, but using the absolute position and attitude calculated based on the marker for which the angle is larger than the first threshold.