A device includes a plurality of imaging optical channels inclined in relation to one another, each of which includes an optic and at least one detector pixel arrangement. The plurality of optical channels are configured to obtain an image of a dot pattern of a field of view by imaging said field of view. The optical channels pass through the display plane and are set up for imaging (projecting) the field of view between the display pixels. The device includes an evaluator that is coupled to detector pixels of the detector pixel arrangements and configured to evaluate the dot pattern on the basis of a comparison, which causes hyper resolution, of signal intensities of different detector pixels so as to obtain an evaluation result, and to control the device at least partly on the basis of the evaluation result.

A device includes a plurality of imaging optical channels inclined in relation to one another, each of which includes an optic and at least one detector pixel arrangement. The plurality of optical channels are configured to obtain an image of a dot pattern of a field of view by imaging said field of view. The optical channels pass through the display plane and are set up for imaging (projecting) the field of view between the display pixels. The device includes an evaluator that is coupled to detector pixels of the detector pixel arrangements and configured to evaluate the dot pattern on the basis of a comparison, which causes hyper resolution, of signal intensities of different detector pixels so as to obtain an evaluation result, and to control the device at least partly on the basis of the evaluation result.

A collation device includes a light source unit; a camera unit that receives light emitted from the light source unit and reflected in a collation area of an object to acquire a photographed image of the collation area; a display unit; and a processor configured to, by executing a program: display a guide of a bright spot portion of the light source unit on the photographed image on the display unit so that an angle formed by the light source unit, the camera unit, and the collation area of the object is a predetermined angle.

An object detection system includes a projector that projects an original transmitted light on a scene containing an object; an adjustable device configured to shape the original transmitted light, thereby generating a shaped transmitted light; and an image capture device configured to capture an image from a reflected light from the scene. The original transmitted light is alternated with the shaped transmitted light, thereby resulting in an integrated image captured by the image capture device.

An object detection system includes a projector that projects an original transmitted light on a scene containing an object; an adjustable device configured to shape the original transmitted light, thereby generating a shaped transmitted light; and an image capture device configured to capture an image from a reflected light from the scene. The original transmitted light is alternated with the shaped transmitted light, thereby resulting in an integrated image captured by the image capture device.

A region of space may be monitored for the presence or absence of one or more control objects, and object attributes and changes thereto may be interpreted as control information provided as input to a machine or application. In some embodiments, the region is monitored using a combination of scanning and image-based sensing.

A region of space may be monitored for the presence or absence of one or more control objects, and object attributes and changes thereto may be interpreted as control information provided as input to a machine or application. In some embodiments, the region is monitored using a combination of scanning and image-based sensing.

A region of space may be monitored for the presence or absence of one or more control objects, and object attributes and changes thereto may be interpreted as control information provided as input to a machine or application. In some embodiments, the region is monitored using a combination of scanning and image-based sensing.

A region of space may be monitored for the presence or absence of one or more control objects, and object attributes and changes thereto may be interpreted as control information provided as input to a machine or application. In some embodiments, the region is monitored using a combination of scanning and image-based sensing.

This invention presents a system and method to acquire object measurements with and optical device and axial scanning mechanism, and to subsequently implement a digital processing algorithm to establish a match between similar object measurements acquired in the past. The digital processing algorithm consists of a probe-and-match strategy. It is generally challenging to determine whether or not an object, such as a work of art (e.g., a painting, drawing, sculpture, or collectable item), is the exact same object as something viewed previously with an extremely high degree of confidence. There is the potential for one object to look very similar to another object, but not be the same (i.e., to be a forgery). There is also the potential for one object to be the same object as viewed previously, but have changed significantly over time (e.g., aged or damaged). Being able to distinguish between these two cases is a difficult yet important task. This invention aims to address the challenge of identifying object uniqueness by considering it as a matching problem between optical measurements, wherein multiple acquired measurements from many objects must be sifted through to establish how similar they are, if at all, to any new measurements.