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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:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Rudolf E. Grosskopf, D-89551, Königsbronn, DE;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 ;
Abstract
A two-dimensional illuminating grid (,) illuminates an object (,). Its spacial form is measured by imaging through a prism grid (,) on a receiver array (,), with the prism grid performing a pupil division for the image of each of the illuminated object points. For this purpose, for each measurement point, the difference signal from each of four adjacent pixels (,) of a receiver array (,) is evaluated. For example, 65,000 points in space can be measured in 20 ms.