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Method for detecting a sonic imprint of a three-dimensional object and related apparatus

US8166820B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 6, 2008
Grant dateMay 1, 2012
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Expiry dateFeb 2, 2029

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01N2291/02827
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Non invasive method used to detect a “sonic imprint” of three-dimensional objects, particularly suitable for the identification and monitoring of artworks, consisting in acquiring the vibrations caused by a source of elastic waves and using a set of detectors fixed in various predetermined points of the external surface of the object. An apparatus, cheap and simple to utilize, suitable to execute this method, is also described.

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