The invention relates to a method and a device for measuring optical
system lateral
magnification by utilizing uniform-speed moving
point target, belonging to the field of metering equipment taking an optical method as a characteristic. In the method, a points target is imaged under the uniform-speed motion state, so that a linear image is obtained; and in a
frequency domain, a value range of
pitch of pixels is found, and because the actual modification
transfer function curve relative to a pixel
pitch and a theoretical modification
transfer function curve have the best contact ratio under the least square condition, and the optical
system lateral
magnification is calculated by
a search algorithm to be obtained. In the device, a sliding block for bearing the
point target is arranged on first rails and second rails, a controller controls the sliding block to do uniform-speed motion on the first rails, and at the same time, controls the sliding block to do motion on the second rails, and the motions in the two directions are matched, so that during the motion process, the
point target is always focused to be imaged onto the surface of an image senor. By adopting the method and the device to measure the optical
system lateral
magnification rate, the errors between single-time measurement results can be reduced, and further, the
repeatability of the measurement results can be improved.