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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1981
Filed:
Oct. 22, 1979
Holmes, Jones F, Portland, OR (US);
Ralph L Jacob, Aloha, OR (US);
Oregon Graduate Center for Study and Research, Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
A scanner profiling system for locating and 'mapping' a selected 'feature' in a three-dimensional object, which 'feature' is nearest with respect to a defined datum plane. The system includes a laser-distancing-instrument (LDI), and a cooperating motor-driven mirror apparatus which is operated under digital computer control to shift the scan axis of the system, in preselected steps, throughout a defined scan field. Object 'feature' location, and related scan orientation data which are obtained during a scanning operation, effect computer scan control, whereby scanning 'attention', within the total scan field, is directed particularly to 'track' the selected 'feature'.