Abstract:
The present invention relates to a device and a method for determining the quality of surfaces. An illuminating means of a first optical means radiates light at a predetermined angle onto the measurement surface. A second optical means is likewise aligned at a predetermined angle to the measurement surface and a photosensor receives the light reflected from said measurement surface and converts same into an electrical measurement signal which is characteristic of the reflected light. A control and evaluation means comprising a processor and memory means controls the measurement sequence and evaluates the measurement results, which are emitted via an output means. The illuminating means comprises at least one light-emitting diode. The light emitted by said illuminating means is configured such that its spectral characteristic comprises at least blue, green and red spectral components in the visible range of the spectrum. A filter means is provided in the path of radiation between the light source and the photosensor. The evaluating means evaluates the reflected light and derives therefrom a parameter which characterizes the surface.
Abstract:
A novel modular bench-top bispectral fluorescence colorimeter and technique embodying in self-contained housing excitation and emission monochromator, preferably with fiber light guide interconnections, and processing for accurately determining the bispectral radiance factors defining the true color of fluorescent materials and the like, and enabling a variety of data presentation formats descriptive thereof.
Abstract:
The present invention is concerned with a line printer for the digital output and calorimetric measuring of colored images, comprising a housing, a paper feeder, a paper discharge means, a printer carriage movable in a direction transverse to the paper feed plus printing head and flexible printer cable, a transporting roller for the paper feed and a printer controller for the control of the printing functions. To enable a line printer of the afore-described type to be used not only for its inherent printing function but also for colorimetric measurements and for computing and using the color profile, to thereby automate the color characterizing process and to free the user from using manual and error-susceptible designs containing a color measuring instrument of the conventional type, in the practice of the invention, a color measuring head for reflection measurements is arranged to be fixed to the printer carriage in lieu of or in addition to the printing head, with the said color measuring head with the measuring aperture thereof being oriented toward the paper passage plane and being in communication with its amplifying, control and evaluating electronic units arranged internally or externally of the printer.
Abstract:
An object recognition system comprises a sensing apparatus for collecting light reflected from objects presented at a point-of-sale machine. The sensing apparatus includes a mechanism, such as a holographic disk or diffraction grating, for separating the color components of the light reflected from the object and directing, the color components onto an optical detector such as a two-dimensional imaging array, or a one-dimensional imaging array or single photo-sensitive optical cell used in conjunction with a rotating mirror. A pattern recognizer compares the spectral response, including the locations, amplitudes and widths of energy peaks of the different color components, against premeasured characteristics of known objects in order to classify the object. The weight of the object can be measured with a scale, and the density of the object calculated, with the weight and density being used by the pattern recognizer to further classify the object. In one embodiment, a plurality of narrowband illumination sources are operated in time-sequential manner, each illuminating with a different wavelength band of light, in order to allow separate color measurements. The object recognition system may be integrated in a single unit along with an optical code reader, and may share all or part of the same exit aperture therewith. The object recognition system may include thermal detection or a particle source and secondary emission detection device, either alone or in conjunction with other object recognition means.
Abstract:
A color detecting apparatus comprises a mechanism for decomposing light from an inspection target object into a plurality of kinds of wavelength components and for inputting the wavelength components as spectrum data, a memory for storing the spectrum data, a mechanism for calculating out a physical characteristic amount of the spectrum data, a memory for storing reference data to be used as reference for the characteristic amount, and a mechanism for comparing the characteristic amount with the reference data, thereby to determine whether or not a color of the inspection target object is a reference color.
Abstract:
An image sensing apparatus of the type employing resolving and sensing means is provided with sensing means of selected size and geometry to allow approximation of arbitrary filter response. The sensing means of selected size and geometry may be incorporated into compact, self contained image resolving and sensing apparatus having a transparent substrate for resolving an incident image by refraction, diffraction or other suitable mechanism. The sensing means may be located directly on a surface of the transparent substrate. Logic and select circuitry may be integrally and simultaneously formed with the sensing means. The size and geometry of the sensing means may enable approximation to color inhibition and other effects to allow approximation of the spectral response of the human eye.
Abstract:
A colorimeter provides compensation for changes in the color signature of an object due to lamp aging. A current measuring circuit measures current to the lamp during an initial training of the colorimeter and stores a value I.sub.T indicative of the lamp current at training. When an object is scanned by the colorimeter, lamp current is again sensed and assigned a value I.sub.S. Comparison between a sensed color signature and a stored color signature then occurs. Compensation is accomplished by modifying one of the two signatures by a ratio including I.sub.S and I.sub.T.
Abstract:
A process and an apparatus for the preparation of color formula for the reproduction of the color of a master are described. In the process, during a measurement, the gloss component of the reflected light is already suppressed with polarizing filters, so that the calculation of the colorant concentrations may be carried out independently of the surface conditions of the master to be reproduced (glossy, semigloss, matte) with a set of optical data of the colorants that are independent of surface conditions.
Abstract:
A method of optically measuring chromatic densities of a sample. In the method, three stimulus values, X, Y and Z, of light reflected from the sample, are derived. A cyan density, a magenta density and a yellow density are determined for the sample, using the X, Y and Z stimulus values, and in addition, three stimulus values, Xo, Yo and Zo of a standard color, such as white. With this method, a color image of an original picture may be accurately reproduced with a high fidelity.
Abstract:
In a color measuring instrument, an integrating sphere is used to illuminate the sample and fiber optics are used to carry light diffusely reflected from the sample and from an interior wall of the sphere to a spectrometer. The transmitting ends of the fiber optic bundles are fixed in the housing of the spectrometer as entrance slits for the spectrometer, which includes a fixed grating and one or two arrays of photodetectors to detect the spectra dispersed by the grating from light received from the two transmitting ends.