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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:
Apr. 13, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jack Ting, Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382312 ; 358474 ;
Abstract
A desk-top three-dimensional object scanner includes a camera body, a base, a retractable lever arm connecting the camera body and the base, and a compensation lighting device disposed at a bottom end of the lever arm. The camera body accommodates therein a sensor that employs lines as sensing points so that the image scanned has better resolution.