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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
May. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Centro Sviluppo Materiali S.p.a., Rome, IT;
Inventor:
Valerio Moroli, Rome, IT;
Assignee:
CENTRO SVILUPPO MATERIALI S.P.A., Rome, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/89 (2006.01); G01N 21/952 (2006.01); G01N 21/88 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/8903 (2013.01); G01N 21/8806 (2013.01); G01N 21/8901 (2013.01); G01N 21/952 (2013.01); G01N 2021/8845 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for the surface inspection and detection of defects of long products by means of a combination of images of the same region of the long product. The images are taken under different lighting condition in order to reconstruct the shape of the surface and thus obtain information on the presence of defects.