G01B9/02094

Overall Z-direction displacement measuring system

The present disclosure relates to a full-field Z-direction displacement measurement system. Dynamic measurement is achieved on the basis of laser shearing speckle interferometry by using a spatial domain phase shift method. The homogeneity and similar measurement accuracy of the laser shearing speckle interferometry and the Doppler interferometry are further used to help the laser shearing speckle interferometry to implement absolute displacement measurement by using the single-point time domain Doppler interferometry. By means of the improvements in these aspects, the measurement system of the present invention can achieve full-field Z-direction displacement measurement, high-precision full-field absolute value vibration measurement and transient depth measurement, and can have important applications in depth measurement, three-dimensional sensing, vibration measurement in aerospace and the depth measurement in new material characterization detection and other fields.

COMPUTATIONAL SHEAR BY PHASE STEPPED SPECKLE HOLOGRAPHY

A method of producing a pair of simultaneous artificial specklegram images. The method includes steps of: reflecting a target illumination beam off of a target surface via a transmitter optical component of a shearography system; directing a first reference beam from the transmitter optical component to a receiving optical component of the shearography system; directing a second reference beam from the transmitter optical component to the receiving optical component; receiving a reflected beam from the target surface with the receiving optical component; interfering the reflected beam with the first reference beam and the second reference beam; communicating a first data set relating to the pair of simultaneous artificial specklegram images from the receiving optical component to a processor; and processing the first data set to generate the pair of simultaneous artificial specklegram images.

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING PARAMETERS OF A MOVING OBJECT

The invention relates to a method and system for monitoring at least one parameter of an object. There is provided an imaging system for monitoring at least one parameter of movement of a moving object, the system comprises at least one imaging unit comprising an optical transformer configured and operable for applying spatial image space transformation of at least one parameter of movement into geometric relation, by translating different components of six degrees of freedom of movement in a three-dimensional space into a lateral translation; wherein the imaging unit is configured and operable for imaging the moving object on an image plane and generating image data indicative of the moving object in an x-y plane; the imaging system generating motion data indicative of the six degrees of freedom of movement.

Laser speckle interferometric system and method for mobile devices

The laser speckle interferometric system includes a memory for storing a measurement result of a correction parameter and models for matching a result of processing the speckle pattern to the parameters of the object and a processor for stabilizing the speckle pattern detected by controlling a condition for detecting the speckle pattern in real time, processing a time-varying function representing a temporal change in the speckle pattern based on the speckle pattern and the parameters and generating data indicating tested parameters.

Shearography for sub microcellular substrate nondestructive inspection
10180403 · 2019-01-15 · ·

Provided is a method and system for dynamic shearographic inspection. The dynamic shearographic method allows nondestructive inspection of layered materials, in particular, those including a porous material. The method uses a load profile that increases and decreases the load, for example in a saw-tooth manner, without decreasing the load back down to the initial loading state, usually zero loading. Using the load profile in this manner constantly refreshes the reference speckle images to minimize background noise and allows defects to be distinguished from the noise.

SHEAROGRAPHY FOR SUB MICROCELLULAR SUBSTRATE NONDESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION
20180372654 · 2018-12-27 ·

Provided is a method and system for dynamic shearographic inspection. The dynamic shearographic method allows nondestructive inspection of layered materials, in particular, those including a porous material. The method uses a load profile that increases and decreases the load, for example in a saw-tooth manner, without decreasing the load back down to the initial loading state, usually zero loading. Using the load profile in this manner constantly refreshes the reference speckle images to minimize background noise and allows defects to be distinguished from the noise.

Image processing device and method to identify disease in an ocular fundus image
10111582 · 2018-10-30 · ·

An image processing device comprises an enhancement processing unit that enhances a speckle pattern in an ocular fundus tomographic image. A region-of-interest setting unit sets a desired region in the ocular fundus tomographic image with the enhanced speckle pattern as a region-of-interest, and a feature value extracting unit extracts a feature value of the speckle pattern in the region-of-interest. A disease determining unit makes disease determination for an ocular fundus on the basis of the feature value, and a mapping unit maps, in the ocular fundus tomographic image, a site of the ocular fundus that is determined to have a disease. An image processing method comprises enhancing a speckle pattern in an ocular fundus tomographic image; setting a desired region in the ocular fundus tomographic image with the enhanced speckle pattern as a region-of-interest; extracting a feature value of the speckle pattern in the region-of-interest; and making disease determination for an ocular fundus on the basis of the feature value.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT

A system for use in monitoring blood circulation data of a user is disclosed. The system comprising a monitoring unit comprising at least one light source unit configured for providing and directing coherent illumination onto at least one selected inspection region on the user's body, and a collection unit configured for collecting light returning for at least a portion of the inspection region and generating a plurality of image data pieces associated with secondary speckle patterns in the collected light returning from said regions; and a control unit configured and operable for receiving said plurality of image data pieces, determining correlation functions between speckle patterns in consecutive image data pieces, processing said correlation functions for determining data indicative of at least two heart rate data sequence indicative of heart rate of the user, and determining data indicative of circulation pressure of the user in accordance with said data indicative of heart rate of the user measured at said first and second monitoring regions.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING GLUCOSE LEVEL

A system for monitoring glucose blood level of a user is disclosed. The system comprising an illumination unit configured for providing coherent optical illumination on a selected inspection region on the user body, a collection unit configured for collecting light returning from the inspection region and generating a plurality of image data pieces associated with speckle patterns in the collected light, and a control unit comprising a processing utility and storage utility comprising pre-stored calibration data, the processing utility is configured for receiving input data on a plurality of image data pieces from the collection unit and for processing said input data for determining correlation functions between different image data pieces and using said correlation functions and said pre-stored calibration data for determining data on glucose blood level of the user.

Vibration measurement device

A vibration measurement device 10 includes an excitation unit (signal generator 11 and vibrator 12) for exciting an elastic wave to an inspection target S, an illumination unit (wavelength stabilized laser beam source 13 and illumination light lens 14) for performing stroboscopic illumination to a measurement region of a surface of the inspection target S using a wavelength stabilized laser beam source 13, a displacement measurement unit (speckle-sharing interferometer 15) for collectively measuring a displacement of each point of the measurement region in the back-and-forth direction by speckle interferometry or speckle-sharing interferometer. By using the wavelength stabilized laser beam source 13, an interference image can be obtained even when the inspection target S has large surface irregularities.