A method and device for automatically identifying a point of interest (e.g., the deepest or highest point) on the surface of an anomaly on a viewed object using a video inspection device is disclosed. The video inspection device obtains and displays an image of the surface of the viewed object. A reference surface is determined along with a region of interest that includes a plurality of points on the surface of the anomaly. The video inspection device determines a depth or height for each of the plurality of points on the surface of the anomaly in the region of interest. The point on the surface of the anomaly (e.g., having the greatest depth or height) is identified as the point of interest. A profile of the object surface at the point of interest is then determined.

Some embodiments of the invention include a method for capturing and analyzing monitoring data of a measuring system. In some embodiments, the measuring system may include one or more sensors and being adapted for a measuring operation of a series of identical objects the measuring operation comprising a multitude of measuring sequences, each measuring sequence comprising the measuring of values of features of an object of the series, the method comprising a multitude of monitoring operations, wherein each monitoring operation comprises capturing monitoring data during a measuring sequence, the monitoring data of each measuring sequence including at least one image comprising the measuring system and/or a measurement environment, characterized by selecting a subset of measuring sequences from the multitude of measuring sequences; and visualizing an image sequence comprising the images of the monitoring data of the measuring sequences of the subset.

The present invention relates to a verification method for verifying a bird protection function of a glass surface (GO) with at least one bird protection section (VS) effective at least in the UV range, comprising the following steps: aligning a recording direction (AR) of a camera device (10) with a UV transmission filter device (40) onto the glass surface (GO), generating at least one camera recording (KA) of the glass surface (GO) with the bird protection section (VS) by means of the aligned camera device (10), outputting the at least one camera recording (KA) as a bird protection image (VSA) as proof of the bird protection function provided by the bird protection section (VS) visible in the bird protection image (VSA).

Embodiments of the disclosure include a remote inspection system for detecting and assessing the alkali-silica reaction (ASR) in situ in concrete, the system including an image acquisition device capable of excluding ambient light from a concrete surface and being placed against and imaging the concrete surface, the image acquisition device comprising a mirrorless camera and daylight and short-range UV light sources wherein the light sources and mirrorless camera are capable of being controlled remotely.

Aspects of the present disclosure includes a method of inspecting in situ the level of ASR present in concrete, including placing an image acquisition device as described above. In yet another aspects, the method further includes acquiring at least one image of said concrete surface prior to treatment with uranyl acetate to assess natural fluorescence in the concrete and acquiring at least one image of said concrete surface after treatment with uranyl acetate.

An imaging system for acquiring time-resolved images of crack propagation in glass samples includes a light source and data camera in a shadowgraph detector configuration, and a trigger camera to acquire images over an appropriate time window to capture crack propagation. Suitable software-based processing and analysis methods facilitate identifying individual cracks, branchpoints, and fragments in the images, as well as measuring their individual and statistical properties.

A side surface inspection device is provided for a cylindrical battery having a side surface defining first to fourth areas. The side surface inspection device includes a first light to emit light toward the side surface of the cylindrical battery; a plurality of mirrors having a first to fourth mirrors that each reflect light emitted from the first light to be incident on each of the first to fourth areas, respectively, of the cylindrical battery, and are configured to reflect light reflected by each of the first to fourth areas, respectively, of the cylindrical battery; and a camera to receive the light reflected by each of the plurality of mirrors and configured to form an image including images of the first to fourth areas of the cylindrical battery.

Disclosed is an inspection and measurement system for hollow cylindrical objects (100) such as internal gun barrel surface of large caliber gun barrels (150). The system (100) comprises an inspection device (200,500) operatively connected to the controller (400). The controller (400) is configured to receive realtime 2D image and 3D laser scan data captured by the inspection device (200,500) to generate 2D and 3D maps of the internal surface of the hollow cylindrical object and provide a means of visualization and interpretation of inspection and measurement data.

A system for performing multi-element analysis in real-time using a multi-element concentration sensor and methods for making and using same. The system can perform an analysis of one or more varieties of samples to provide rapid infield elemental analysis and characterize the samples in real-time. The system can utilize one or more light sources with variable optical capability and variable intensities to emit intense and short pulses of light for ablating matter from a sample target. Advantageously, the system can include a sample preparation module for preparing the sample target prior to application of the light pulses. Interaction of the light pulses with vaporized matter can create an excited plasma plume that can comprise external light source-induced excited plasma sources for allowing a specific optical response resulting from the electronic relaxation of atoms and ions excited by a high plasma temperature to be elicited from matter constituting the sample.