High-speed 3-D surface measurement surface inspection and reverse-CAD system
First Claim
1. A high-speed three-dimensional surface measurement system for use in determining the surface of an object from at least two electronic signals, comprising:
- at least first means for illuminating at least a surface area of the object with at least one fringe pattern;
at least two means for receiving reflected illumination from said surface area, each of said at least two means for receiving reflected illumination having a predetermined spacial orientation relative to said means for illuminating, a primary means of said two means for receiving reflected illumination having a line-of-sight that forms a primary angle relative to a line-of-sight of said means for illuminating and a secondary means of said two means for receiving reflected illumination having a line-of-sight that forms a secondary angle relative to said line-of-sight of said means for illuminating, said secondary angle being different than said primary angle; and
said primary means providing a primary electronic signal representative of reflected illumination received thereby and said secondary means providing a secondary electronic signal representative of reflected illumination received thereby.
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Abstract
This invention relates to an apparatus and method for 3-D vision sensing or measurement to rapidly collect X-Y-Z surface data to support dimensional measurement, surface inspection and Reverse-CAD functions. The high-speed three-dimensional surface measurement system for use in determining the surface of an object from at least two electronic signals, has at least a first source for illuminating at least a surface area of the object with at least one fringe pattern. At least two cameras are provided for receiving reflected illumination from the surface area, each of the at least two cameras have a predetermined spacial orientation relative to the source for illuminating, a primary camera of the two cameras having a line-of-sight that forms a primary angle relative to a line-of-sight of the source for illuminating and a secondary camera of the two cameras having a line-of-sight that forms a secondary angle relative to the line-of-sight of the source for illuminating, the secondary angle being different than the primary angle. The primary camera provides a primary electronic signal representative of reflected illumination received thereby and the secondary camera providing a secondary electronic signal representative of reflected illumination received thereby.
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45 Claims
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1. A high-speed three-dimensional surface measurement system for use in determining the surface of an object from at least two electronic signals, comprising:
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at least first means for illuminating at least a surface area of the object with at least one fringe pattern; at least two means for receiving reflected illumination from said surface area, each of said at least two means for receiving reflected illumination having a predetermined spacial orientation relative to said means for illuminating, a primary means of said two means for receiving reflected illumination having a line-of-sight that forms a primary angle relative to a line-of-sight of said means for illuminating and a secondary means of said two means for receiving reflected illumination having a line-of-sight that forms a secondary angle relative to said line-of-sight of said means for illuminating, said secondary angle being different than said primary angle; and said primary means providing a primary electronic signal representative of reflected illumination received thereby and said secondary means providing a secondary electronic signal representative of reflected illumination received thereby. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27)
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25. The system according to claim wherein said system further comprises means for supporting in a stationary position said at least first means for illuminating and said two means for receiving reflected illumination relative to a position of said object, said object being moveable.
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28. A high-speed three-dimensional surface measurement system for use in determining the surface of an object from at least two electronic signals, comprising:
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first means for illuminating at least a surface area of the object with two vertical side-by-side fringe patterns; second means for illuminating said surface area of said object with two horizontal side-by-side fringe patterns, for each of said side-by-side vertical and horizontal fringe patterns, one is a narrow field-of-view fringe pattern and the other is a wide field-of-view fringe pattern; at least three means for receiving reflected illumination from said surface area, each of said at least three means for receiving reflected illumination having a predetermined spacial orientation relative to said first means for illuminating, a primary means of said three means for receiving reflected illumination having a line-of-sight that forms a primary angle relative to a line-of-sight of said first means for illuminating and a secondary means of said three means for receiving reflected illumination having a line-of-sight that forms a secondary angle relative to said line-of-sight of said first means for illuminating, said secondary angle being different than said primary angle, said second means for illuminating having a line-of-sight oriented differently than said line-of-sight of said first means for illuminating; said third means having a wide field-of-view for viewing the wide field-of-view fringe patterns and said primary and secondary means each having a narrow field-of-view for viewing the respective narrow field-of-view fringe patterns; said primary means providing a primary electronic signal representative of reflected illumination received thereby and said secondary means providing a secondary electronic signal representative of reflected illumination received thereby. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30)
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31. A high-speed three-dimensional surface measurement system for use in determining the surface of an object from at least two electronic signals, comprising:
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first means for illuminating at least a surface area of the object with at least one first fringe pattern; second means for illuminating said surface area of said object with at least one second fringe pattern; at least two means for receiving reflected illumination from said surface area, each of said at least two means for receiving reflected illumination having a predetermined spacial orientation relative to said first and second means for illuminating, a primary means of said two means for receiving reflected illumination having a line-of-sight that forms a primary angle relative to a line-of-sight of said first means for illuminating and a secondary means of said two means for receiving reflected illumination having a line-of-sight that forms a secondary angle relative to said line-of-sight of said first means for illuminating, said secondary angle being different than said primary angle; said second means for illuminating having a line-of-sight oriented differently than said line-of-sight of said first means for illuminating; and said primary means providing a primary electronic signal representative of reflected illumination received thereby and said secondary means providing a secondary electronic signal representative of reflected illumination received thereby. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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36. A high-speed three-dimensional surface measurement system for use in determining the surface of an object from at least two electronic signals, comprising:
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at least first means for illuminating at least a surface area of the object with a fringe pattern, said at least first means for illuminating having a means for providing a beam of illumination, means for collimating the beam of illumination, means for providing a fringe grating through which the collimated beam of illumination passes, means for increasing the depth-of-field of said fringe pattern on said surface area and means for focusing the fringe pattern on said surface area; at least two means for receiving reflected illumination from said surface area, each of said at least two means for receiving reflected illumination having a predetermined spacial orientation relative to said means for illuminating, a primary means of said two means for receiving reflected illumination having a line-of-sight that forms a primary angle relative to a line-of-sight of said means for illuminating and a secondary means of said two means for receiving reflected illumination having a line-of-sight that forms a secondary angle relative to said line-of-sight of said means for illuminating, said secondary angle being different than said primary angle; and said primary means providing a primary electronic signal representative of reflected illumination received thereby and said secondary means providing a secondary electronic signal representative of reflected illumination received thereby.
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43. A high-speed three-dimensional surface measurement system or use in determining the surface of an object from at least two electronic signals, comprising:
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at least first means for illuminating at least a surface area of the object with at least one fringe pattern, said at least first means for illuminating having source means for providing light, cylindrical condenser lens arrangement that receives light from the source means and refocuses the light onto projector imaging optics, pattern means for generating a substantially parallel line fringe pattern located in close proximity to an output side of the cylindrical condenser lens arrangement, and slit aperture means located between the pattern means and the projector imaging of optics for providing a defocus along the length of each individual fringe of the fringe pattern without causing a defocus across the fringe pattern; at least two means for receiving reflected illumination from said surface area, each of said at least two means for receiving reflected illumination having a predetermined spacial orientation relative to said means for illuminating, a primary means of said two means for receiving reflected illumination having a line-of-sight that forms a primary angle relative to a line-of-sight of said means for illuminating and a secondary means of said two means for receiving reflected illumination having a line-of-sight that forms a secondary angle relative to said line-of-sight of said means for illuminating, said secondary angle being different than said primary angle; and said primary means providing a primary electronic signal representative of reflected illumination received thereby and said secondary means providing a secondary electronic signal representative of reflected illumination received thereby.
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44. A method for determining the surface of an object in a high-speed three-dimensional surface measurement system, comprising the steps of:
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illuminating with at least first means for illuminating at least a surface area of the object with at least one fringe pattern; providing at least two cameras receiving reflected illumination from said surface area, each of said at least two cameras for receiving reflected illumination having a predetermined spacial orientation relative to said means for illuminating, a fine camera of said two cameras for receiving reflected illumination having a line-of-sight that forms a primary angle relative to a line-of-sight of said means for illuminating and a coarse camera of said two cameras for receiving reflected illumination having a line-of-sight that forms a secondary angle relative to said line-of-sight of said means for illuminating, said secondary angle being different than said primary angle; providing three dimensional part coordinates indicative of the relation of the object to the fine and coarse cameras; outputting a primary set of pixel coordinates and phase values from said fine camera; outputting a secondary set of pixel coordinates and phase values from said coarse camera; for each of the primary and secondary sets extracting primary and secondary raw unfolded phase values, respectively, from the pixel coordinates of the primary and secondary sets; calculating first and second true integer values using the primary and secondary raw unfolded phase values and the pixel coordinates of the primary and secondary sets; generating a phase map for the fine camera using the first and second true integer values; and mapping the phase map onto a part map using the part coordinates to produce a final three dimensional coordinate set representative of the surface area of the object. - View Dependent Claims (45)
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