Sick Ag

Thomas Kaltenbach

Klemens Wehrle

Hubert Uhl

Achim Nübling

Achim Nuebling

A method for the anonymized image acquisition in an industrial plant, comprising acquiring an image, wherein the image comprises an optoelectronically readable code and a personal feature; identifying the personal feature in the image; and obscuring the personal feature in the image.

Method and apparatus for the anonymized image acquisition in an industrial plant

A method for the automatic parameterization of measuring systems for the measurement of objects transported by means of a transport device, in particular volume measurement systems, wherein at least one image, which is at least one-dimensional and comprises picture elements, of a test object known at least in part to the measuring system with respect to its dimensions and located in the measuring zone of the measuring system is detected by at least one sensor for electromagnetic radiation, in particular a laser scanner, and the system parameters required for the measurement of the objects are determined from the image and the known dimensions of the test object.

Method for the automatic parameterization of measuring systems

A scanning method for optical scanning of a body includes illuminating the body by a lighting unit and a light receiver unit receives light transmitted from the lighting unit to the body and reflected by the body so that a scanning zone of a scanning unit is defined by the lighting unit and the light receiver unit. Two scanning units each having a scanning region are used, which overlap at least in part in an overlap zone, and at least when the surface of the body is in an overlap zone, the scanning sensitivity of at least one of the scanning units is reduced at least for the overlap zone. At least one scanning unit is used which is configured and/or arranged such that it can scan a part of the body which is as large as possible. A scanning apparatus is also provided for carrying out the scanning method.

Scanning method and scanning apparatus

The invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for the detection of objects moved on a segmented conveyor means by means of an optoelectronic sensor, in which in each case the geometric center of the objects is determined via the optoelectronic sensor, whereupon the objects are each associated with that conveyor segment in the region of which the respectively determined geometric center is located. The invention further relates to a method and to an apparatus for the determination of the dimensions of objects moved on a conveyor means by means of an optoelectronic sensor, in which the dimensions of the objects are detected and corresponding. object-related values are supplied, and in which the optoelectronic sensor additionally also detects the dimensions of the conveyor means and supplies corresponding, conveyor means-related values, with conveyor means tolerances and/or hollow spaces possibly present between the object and the conveyor means being compensated by an offsetting of the object-related values with the conveyor means-related values.

Method and an apparatus for the detection of objects moved on a conveyor means by means of an optoelectronic sensor

A method of locating articles on a carrier plane on the basis of data obtained by a relative movement extending in a transport direction parallel to the carrier plane between a scanning plane and the articles and by repeatedly carrying out a total scan of the position of points on the articles and which include information on the position of the article points detected in the scanning plane, and on the basis of information on the relative position of the scanning plane and the articles in the direction of transport during a total scan. The method repeatedly reads the data on the position of the article points on the articles in the scanning plane and detects information on the relative position of the scanning plane and articles in the transport direction for a current total scan. The positions and extents of flanks of the articles, which substantially form a right angle with the carrier plane, are determined from the data of the current total scan. The positions and lengths of edges of the articles parallel to the carrier plane are determined on the basis of the positions and extents of the flanks as well as the information on the relative position of the scanning plane and the articles in the transport direction in the current total scan and in preceding total scans. Objects corresponding to articles are defined from the positions and lengths of the edges parallel to the carrier plane.

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Gutach-Siegelau, Germany

Thomas Kaltenbach