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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2005
John Laurent, Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, CA;
Michel Doucet, Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, CA;
John Laurent, Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, CA;
Michel Doucet, Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, CA;
Institut National d'Optique, Sainte-Foy, Quebec, CA;
Abstract
There is provided a vision system and a method for scanning a traveling surface such a road to detect surface defects thereof such as cracks. The vision system, which is mountable on a vehicle, is provided with a linear imaging system for imaging successive adjacent transversal linear portions of the traveling surface as the vehicle advances. The vision system is also provided with laser line projecting means angularly projecting a laser line onto the transversal linear portion of the traveling surface to be imaged in a substantially coplanar relationship with the linear imaging system. The present vision system is particularly devised to be immune to surrounding light conditions variations to provide optimum cracks image contrast for both transverse and longitudinal cracks.