Industrial Research Limited

C3 Corporation

Robert Jan Valkenburg

David William Penman

Johann August Schoonees

Nawar Sami Alwesh

Glen Edward Murphy

George Terry Palmer

A log scanning system and method for scanning a log load. Each individual log in the log load may have an ID element with a unique log ID data on at least one log end face. The system has a handheld scanner unit for free-form scanning by an operator over a load end face of the log load. The scanner unit has a depth sensor configured to capture a series of depth images of the load end face and a texture sensor configured to capture a series of texture images of the load end face during the load end face scan. The system also has a data processor(s) that receives and processes the depth and texture images captured from the scan. The processor(s) are configured to fuse the depth images or depth and texture images into a data model of the load end face, determine log end boundaries of the individual logs visible in the load end face by processing the data model, process the texture images to identify and decode any ID elements visible in the scan to extract individual log ID data, and generate output data representing the log load based on the determined log end boundaries and extracted log ID data.

Log scanning system

A hand-held mobile 3D scanner () for scanning a scene. The scanner () comprises a range sensor () that is arranged to sense the location of surface points in the scene relative to the scanner () and generate representative location information, a texture sensor () that is arranged to sense the texture of each surface point in the scan of the scene and generate representative texture information, and a position and orientation sensor () that is arranged to sense the position and orientation of the scanner () during the scan of the scene and generate representative position and orientation information. A control system () is also provided that is arranged to receive the information from each of the sensors and generate data representing the scan of the scene.

3D scene scanner and a position and orientation system

Growing community of inventors

Auckland, New Zealand

Robert Jan Valkenburg