Patent · US Active

Device for optically scanning and measuring an environment

US8705016B2 · kind B2 · utility

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71References

10Claims

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Assignee

FARO Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

Philipp Schumann · Stuttgart, DE
Martin Ossig · Tamm, DE
Reinhard Becker · Wiesbaden, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 11, 2010
Grant date	Apr 22, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 11, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01S17/89
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a device for optically scanning and measuring an environment, where the device is a laser scanner having a light emitter which, by a rotary mirror, emits an emission light beam, with a light receiver which receives a reception light beam, which, after passing the rotary mirror and a receiver lens which has an optical axis, is reflected from an object in the environment of the laser scanner. The laser scanner also includes a color camera which takes colored pictures of the environment of the laser scanner, and a control and evaluation unit which, for a multitude of measuring points, determines the distance to the object and links it with the colored pictures, the color camera being arranged on the optical axis of the receiver lens.

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