Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical surface encoder
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Application No.: US17281160Application Date: 2019-10-04
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Publication No.: US11995851B2Publication Date: 2024-05-28
- Inventor: Isak Du Preez
- Applicant: Isak Du Preez
- Applicant Address: ZA Kranshop
- Assignee: Isak Du Preez
- Current Assignee: Isak Du Preez
- Current Assignee Address: ZA Kranshop
- Agency: Billion & Armitage
- Priority: ZA 1806583 2018.10.04
- International Application: PCT/ZA2019/050064 2019.10.04
- International Announcement: WO2020/073065A 2020.04.09
- Date entered country: 2021-03-29
- Main IPC: G06T7/514
- IPC: G06T7/514 ; G01B11/25 ; G06T7/00

Abstract:
An apparatus to generate data relating to a specular surface of an object, the apparatus including a screen that is movable relative to the object, a graphic rendered on the screen' wherein the graphic is notionally divided into contiguous segments such that the graphic content in each segment allows that segment to be distinguished from a plurality of other segments, at least one camera for capturing successive frames of the object' illuminated by said graphic, during said relative movement of the screen, and a computing device that accepts data from pixels of the captured frames.
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