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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2003
Agfa NDT GmbH, , DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to an ultrasonic probe comprising: —a housing ( ), which accommodates an ultrasonic transducer and has a contact surface for making contact with the surface ( ) of a body ( ) to be inspected; —at least one digital camera ( ), which is allocated to the housing ( ) and which is aligned in such a way that it registers the surface ( ) of the body ( ) and supplies a respective electronic image of sub-sections of the surface ( ) of the body ( ) at intervals; —a circuit for image processing ( ), which has an image memory ( ) for at least one electronic image that has been registered by the digital camera ( ). Said circuit also comprises a comparator ( ) that compares two electronic images of the body ( ) to be inspected, registered by the digital camera ( ) at different times and that determines the displacement of the housing ( ) in relation to the surface ( ); and a displacement memory ( ), which contains the displacement of the housing ( ) and the current position of the housing ( ) in relation to the original location ( ).