Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Positional change measurement device, positional change measurement method, and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 位置变化测量装置,位置变化测量方法和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US14208621Application Date: 2014-03-13
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Publication No.: US09228825B2Publication Date: 2016-01-05
- Inventor: Atsushi Takaura , Koji Masuda , Yasuhiro Nihei , Takeshi Ueda , Koichi Kudo , Taku Amada , Kenichi Shimizu , Asato Tamura
- Applicant: Atsushi Takaura , Koji Masuda , Yasuhiro Nihei , Takeshi Ueda , Koichi Kudo , Taku Amada , Kenichi Shimizu , Asato Tamura
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2013-054129 20130315; JP2013-054266 20130315; JP2013-148657 20130717; JP2013-189389 20130912
- Main IPC: G01B11/14
- IPC: G01B11/14 ; G01B11/04 ; G03G15/00

Abstract:
An objective is to achieve a positional change measurement device which measures positional change of a dynamic measured surface by using speckle patterns while easily reducing influence of fluctuations in a measurement environment temperature. Provided is a positional change measurement device including: a light source; an illuminating optical system configured to guide light from the light source to a measured surface; an imaging optical system; an image pickup device configured to acquire a speckle pattern by receiving reflection light from the measured surface via the imaging optical system; and detected-length compensation means for compensating for fluctuations in a detected length caused by temperature fluctuations. Positional change of the measured surface is measured based on a result of cross-correlation computation performed on multiple speckle patterns acquired at predetermined time intervals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140268180A1 POSITIONAL CHANGE MEASUREMENT DEVICE, POSITIONAL CHANGE MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2014-09-18
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