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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2006
Robert Jan Valkenburg, Auckland, NZ;
David William Penman, Auckland, NZ;
Johann August Schoonees, Auckland, NZ;
Nawar Sami Alwesh, Auckland, NZ;
George Terry Palmer, Auckland, NZ;
Robert Jan Valkenburg, Auckland, NZ;
David William Penman, Auckland, NZ;
Johann August Schoonees, Auckland, NZ;
Nawar Sami Alwesh, Auckland, NZ;
George Terry Palmer, Auckland, NZ;
Industrial Research Limited, Lower Hutt, NZ;
Abstract
A hand-held mobile 3D scanner () for scanning a scene. The scanner () comprises a range sensor () that is arranged to sense the location of surface points in the scene relative to the scanner () and generate representative location information, a texture sensor () that is arranged to sense the texture of each surface point in the scan of the scene and generate representative texture information, and a position and orientation sensor () that is arranged to sense the position and orientation of the scanner () during the scan of the scene and generate representative position and orientation information. A control system () is also provided that is arranged to receive the information from each of the sensors and generate data representing the scan of the scene.