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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
May. 03, 2013
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Arno Vredenborg, Eindhoven, NL;
Mark Carpaij, Eindhoven, NL;
Stephen Gronenborn, Eindhoven, NL;
Pavel Pekarski, Eindhoven, NL;
Arnd Ritz, Eindhoven, NL;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An apparatus () for profiling the depth of a surface of a target object (), having a two-dimensional array of lasers (), an optical device () for projecting a two-dimensional illumination pattern () onto an area of the surface of the target object, an image capture device () arranged to capture an image of the two-dimensional illumination pattern projected onto the area of the surface of the target object and a processor () configured to process the captured image in order to reconstruct a depth profile of the two-dimensional area of the surface of the target object from the image captured by the image capture device.