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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2020
Faro Technologies, Inc., Lake Mary, FL (US);
Kishore Lankalapalli, Sanford, FL (US);
Michael Shen, Lake Mary, FL (US);
Paul C. Atwell, Lake Mary, FL (US);
Keith G. Macfarlane, Lake Mary, FL (US);
Jacint R. Barba, Lake Mary, FL (US);
Nitesh Dhasmana, Lake Mary, FL (US);
FARO Technologies, Inc., Lake Mary, FL (US);
Abstract
A method includes providing a measuring device having a projector, a camera with a photosensitive array, and a processor, projecting with the projector a line of light onto an object, capturing with the camera an image of the projected line of light on the object within a window subregion of the photosensitive array, and calculating with the processor three-dimensional (3D) coordinates of points on the object based at least in part on the projected line of light and on the captured image.