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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090135434 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING THE TOPOGRAPHY AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF A MOVING SURFACE The invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining the topography or optical properties of a moving subject. In the method at least two images (KX1, KX2, KX3) and (KY1, KY2, KY3) of a moving subject (X) and a refere... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090091768 | Color Filter Inspection Method, Color Filter Manufacturing Method, and Color Filter Inspection Apparatus Included are an illumination lamp (2) for illuminating a color filter edge (23) at a predetermined angle of incidence, a sensor (3) for taking at least two images by imaging light reflected at a predetermined angle different from the angle of incide... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090033947 | Method for repeatable optical determination of object geometry dimensions and deviations A method for inspecting geometrical shapes of objects to determine selected dimensions thereof based on data characterizing such objects obtained through stereoscopic photographs taken by a pair of cameras with fields of view intersecting to thereby provide a photograph... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080273211 | Apparatus and Method for Measuring the Surface of a Body In a light-slit method, a first and a second measurement light projection on a surface of an object to be measured may be unambiguously identified as a first or a second measurement light projection by a camera when there is a support apparatus operating the camera and/... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080137101 | Apparatus and Method for Obtaining Surface Texture Information An apparatus and method for obtaining surface texture information using photometric stereo. The material for which surface height and reflectance function information is desired (“the material”) is illuminated with an illumination source emitting electromagnetic wav... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080101688 | 3D photogrammetry using projected patterns A structured light pattern digitizing method is combined with photogrammetry to determine a 3D model of an object. The structured light digitizing operation generates a 3D model of the object being scanned, and this model is then used to compute a higher accuracy model ... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20070216911 | Curved Surface Shape Inspection Method, Fiber Optical Block, and Curved Surface Shape Inspection Device In a fiber optic block 10 formed by bundling and integrating a plurality of optical fibers 11 each composed of a core region 12 and a clad region 13, an at least partially curved input end face 14 composed of one end of each optical fi... | 09/20/2007 |
| 20070183631 | Methods and apparatus for measuring the flapping deformation of insect wings The present invention relates to a high-performance computer vision system and method for measuring the wings deformation of insects with high flapping-frequency, large stroke-amplitude and excellent mobility during free-flight. A geometrical optic unit composed of a po... | 08/09/2007 |
| 20070159640 | Shared color sensors for high-resolution 3-D camera In one embodiment, an apparatus for three-dimensional (3-D) image acquisition can include: (i) first and second lenses configured to receive light from a scene; (ii) first, second, third, and fourth sensors; (iii) a first beam splitter arranged proximate to the first le... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20060187469 | Three-dimensional measuring apparatus and three-dimensional measuring method The invention provides a measuring apparatus that can efficiently analyze a three-dimensional image by simultaneously recording a circular streak image and a straight-line streak image at a measured point, even when a large number of circular streak images are present. ... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060017938 | Three-dimensional surveying instrument and electronic storage medium The present invention relates to a three-dimensional surveying instrument used to calculate three-dimensional coordinate data by use of a surveying instrument and an imaging unit. An object of the present invention is in particular to provide a three-dimensional surveyi... | 01/26/2006 |
