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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013

Filed:

Sep. 10, 2009
Applicants:

Hans Dieter Tholl, Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, DE;

Eugen Romasew, Überlingen, DE;

Joachim Barenz, Überlingen, DE;

Inventors:

Hans Dieter Tholl, Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, DE;

Eugen Romasew, Überlingen, DE;

Joachim Barenz, Überlingen, DE;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A device for recording images of an object scene has a lighting unit for illuminating the object scene with several lighting elements and an optical system for directing radiation of the lighting elements reflected from the object scene onto a detector. In order to achieve a simple and compact camera, the device includes a marking device for marking the radiation from each of the lighting elements and an evaluation device for differentiating the reflected radiation of the individual lighting elements by way of the marking.


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