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Device for optically scanning and measuring an environment

US9074883B2 · kind B2 · utility

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7Claims

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Assignee

FARO Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

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

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 22, 2010
Grant date	Jul 7, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 20, 2030

Classification

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

Abstract

With a device for optically scanning and measuring an environment which is designed as a laser scanner, with a light emitter, which emits an emission light beam, with a light receiver which receives a reception light beam which is reflected by an object in the surroundings of the laser scanner or scattered otherwise, with a control and evaluation unit which determines the distance to the object for a multitude of measuring points, wherein the emission light beam is a superposition of three laser beams having different wave lengths, which define the three-dimensional color space.

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