METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRO OPTICALLY DETERMINING THE DIMENSION, LOCATION AND ATTITUDE OF OBJECTS
Patent №
US 5,854,491
Granted
1998-12-29
Filed 1995
Owner
DIFFRACTO LTD.
Lab
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AI components
2
vision · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
08463095
A method and apparatus for optically determining the dimension of part surfaces. Particular embodiments describe optical triangulation based coordinate measurement machines capable of accurate measurement of complex surfaces, such as gear teeth and turbine blades. Other embodiments provide highly useful sensors for robot guidance and related purposes. Up to 5 axis sensing capability is provided on surfaces of widely varying form.
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Vision0.91
AI hardware0.57
Machine learning0.00
Planning0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Ownership
DIFFRACTO LTD.
assignment · 101330776
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