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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kurt Eichweber, Hamburg, DE;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C / ; B25J / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356-1 ; 356 21 ; 356152 ; 358107 ; 901 47 ;
Abstract
In the measurement system for the measurement of an object (2), the object 2) is provided with two retro-reflectors (3, 4) disposed at a known spacing. A measuring device (1) exhibits a light source (5), a video camera (7, 8) and an arrangement (9) which carries out the measurement with reference to the two image points which are formed by the light reflected by the retroreflectors (3, 4). The light source (5) is preferably a flash light source, the flashes of which are synchronized by an arrangement (6) with the imaging sequence of the video camera (7, 8).