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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2022
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);
Fred Charles Thomas, III, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Joshua Alan St. John, San Diego, CA (US);
Santiago Garcia-Reyero Vinas, San Diego, CA (US);
Owen P. Columbus, Spring, TX (US);
Christian M. Damir, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
A three-dimensional (3D) topographical surface capture device includes a housing, light sources mounted around a perimeter of the housing, and an imaging subassembly including a polarization-state viewer and an image capture sensor directed inward into the housing. The device further includes control circuitry to control the light sources and the imaging subassembly to capture two-dimensional (2D) topographical surface images from multiple lighting orientations of a sample at a bottom end of the housing and to synthesize a 3D topographical surface image of the sample from the 2D topographical surface images. The device is switchably configured between a first mode in which a tray is attached to the bottom end of the housing and the sample is attached to the tray, and a second mode in which the tray is removed and the bottom end of the housing is placed to abut the sample.
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