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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2015
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takamasa Seto, Ebina, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/47 (2006.01); G01N 21/55 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/55 (2013.01); G01N 21/4738 (2013.01); G01N 2021/4711 (2013.01);
Abstract
A sensor unit photoelectrically converts received light to output image data. A lens unit condenses light reflected by an object surface to be measured on the sensor unit. A lens control unit controls a geometric condition of rays passing through the lens unit. The sensor unit and the lens control unit are controlled to acquire a multi-angular reflectance property in a neighborhood of a specular reflection direction of the object surface.