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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2010
Philipp Schumann, Stuttgart, DE;
Martin Ossig, Tamm, DE;
Reinhard Becker, Ludwigsburg, DE;
Faro Technologies, Inc., Lake Mary, FL (US);
Abstract
In a device for optically scanning and measuring an environment, where the device is a laser scanner having a light emitter which, by a rotary mirror, emits an emission light beam, with a light receiver which receives a reception light beam, which, after passing the rotary mirror and a receiver lens which has an optical axis, is reflected from an object in the environment of the laser scanner. The laser scanner also includes a color camera which takes colored pictures of the environment of the laser scanner, and a control and evaluation unit which, for a multitude of measuring points, determines the distance to the object and links it with the colored pictures, the color camera being arranged on the optical axis of the receiver lens.