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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2019
Applicant:
Tanita Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tadaaki Ishige, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
TANITA CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/107 (2006.01); G01B 11/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/1072 (2013.01); A61B 5/1079 (2013.01); G01B 11/0608 (2013.01);
Abstract
A length measuring apparatus for measuring length of a measuring object, includes a scale part provided to the measuring object, the scale part having two-dimensional codes with different patterns provided alongside at least in a longitudinal direction; a reading unit configured to read the two-dimensional codes; an obtaining unit configured to obtain coordinate information based on the two-dimensional code; and a conversion unit configured to convert the obtained coordinate information to length information based on a previously generated correspondence between the coordinate information and length information of the measuring object.