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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2006
Gerald B. Nightingale, West Chester, OH (US);
Francis Howard Little, Cincinnati, OH (US);
John C. Janning, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Gerald B. Nightingale, West Chester, OH (US);
Francis Howard Little, Cincinnati, OH (US);
John C. Janning, Cincinnati, OH (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for non-destructive examination of parts includes producing a 3-D image of a sample of a part, extracting a point cloud of the image of the sample of the part, and registering the point cloud to a CAD coordinate system. The method further includes determining points in the point cloud of the image that are more than a specified distance from surfaces on a CAD 3-D model of the part using the same coordinate system, and utilizing the determined points to determine the presence of anomalies or present an image of anomalies in the sample of the part.