An intra-oral handheld 3D optical scanner includes an illumination module configured to generate an illumination signal to illuminate a dental object, and an image sensor configured to obtain data in response to the illumination of the dental object. The data is configured to be used to generate a 3D dental model of the dental object. The scanner also includes a lens housing including an optical lens that is configured to direct the illuminating signal towards the dental object, and a drive including a shaft that is configured to rotate around a rotation axis. The scanner also includes a guide extending continuously along at least a part of a length of the shaft and a spring, arranged intermediate between the lens housing and the guide, configured to exert a spring force towards the guide.

An object surface data detection method and system, an electronic apparatus, and a storage medium. The object surface data detection method, applied to a three-dimensional scanning system comprising detection auxiliary devices and a scanning device, includes: obtaining a unified coordinate system established for the detection auxiliary devices, wherein a number of the detection auxiliary devices is at least two; respectively obtaining first scan data of the scanning device scanning a surface of an object and tracking results of the detection auxiliary devices tracking the scanning device; and comprehensively calculating the tracking results, the first scan data, and the unified coordinate system to obtain an object surface detection result.

An apparatus comprising means for: causing illumination of different areas of a sample with an optical frequency imaging beam at different positions at different times, wherein adjacent positions are configured to cause the corresponding areas to at least partially overlap;receiving signals indicative of back-scattering of the optical frequency imaging beam from the sample at the different times; and processing the received signals to obtain an image of the sample, wherein processing the received signals compensates for phase variations between the different positions at the different times using a matched filter derived from a scattering model of the sample.

A structured light 3D scanner based on the principle of triangulation with a light source for generating a light pattern, two cameras with two-dimensional sensors recording the reflection of the light pattern from a target object, and one axis moving the cameras. Wherein the cameras are arranged with at least partly overlapping fields of view and where the sensors in the cameras are read out partially and concurrently during at least some period of the scanning process, thus providing partial images and where the partial images are merged prior to performing the triangulation calculations.

The present invention relates to a method and system for quantitatively evaluating surface roughness of an organic pore of kerogen in shale. The method includes: making a shale sample; applying a circle of silver-painted conductive tape on the edge of the shale sample to obtain a processed sample; conducting image scanning on the processed sample to obtain a scanned image; determining a kerogen area according to the scanned image; determining an organic pore area according to the kerogen area; carrying out gridding treatment on the organic pore area to obtain multiple grid cells; adopting double integral calculation on each of the grid cells to obtain the areas of the multiple grid cells; summing each of the areas to obtain the surface area of the organic pore; and evaluating surface roughness of the organic pore according to the surface area of the pore.

Generating a composite image of a non-flat surface includes: acquiring, using a microscope, multiple images of different areas of the non-flat surface, where each image includes a region of overlap with at least one adjacent image, the microscope having sufficient resolution to image in three dimensions a microstructure on the non-flat surface having a lateral dimension of 10 microns or less and a height of 10 nm or less; determining, for each of the images, a set of rigid body parameters relating a position and orientation of the test object in the image to a common coordinate system, where the set of rigid body parameters is determined by fitting the resolved microstructure in the overlap region in the image with the corresponding microstructure in the overlap region of the adjacent image; and combining the images based on the sets of rigid body parameters to generate a composite image.

An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of captured images of a traveling surface where a movable apparatus travels, each of the captured images including distance information in a depth direction transverse to the traveling surface, the plurality of captured images having been captured using a plurality of stereo image capture devices, and an image processing unit configured to stitch together the plurality of images of the traveling surface captured by the plurality of stereo image capture devices by identifying partially overlapping portions of one or more pairs of the images captured by respective stereo image capture devices which are adjacent in a width direction of the traveling surface.

A three-dimensional (3D) scanner, which is in communication with a display, includes one or more optical sensors. The scanner scans, using the one or more optical sensors, an object having a surface. The scanning generates data corresponding to a 3D shape of at least a portion of the surface of the object. The scanner generates a 3D reconstruction of the shape of the surface of the object. The scanner provides a preview of the 3D reconstruction of the at least portion of the shape of the surface of the object. The scanner provides, to the display, for rendering with the preview of the 3D reconstruction of the at least portion of the shape of the surface of the object, an indication of at least one of a quantity or a quality of the data corresponding to the 3D shape of the at least portion of the surface of the object.

An image acquisition unit for obtaining data to generate at least one three-dimensional representation of at least one underwater structure is disclosed. The image acquisition unit includes a unit body, a plurality of cameras, a first laser light device, and a second laser light device. The first laser light device can operate based on a first illumination setting. The second laser light device can operate based a second illumination setting. The first and second cameras can be configured to capture light during the first illumination setting and generate a first set of data representative of the first laser projecting on the at least one underwater structure at a predetermined scan rate. The third and fourth cameras can be configured to capture light during the second illumination setting and generate a second set of data representative of the second laser projecting on the at least one underwater structure at the predetermined scan rate.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of measuring a surface of an object having a curved shape by measuring a distance from a measurement head to the object, includes: setting a measuring region of the object and a threshold value of concave and convex; acquiring shape reference data including the curved shape of the object; acquiring three-dimensional data of the surface of the object by measuring the distance between the object in the measuring region and the measurement head; acquiring curve removed data by removing the shape reference data from the three-dimensional data; calculating second reference data by calculating first reference data based on the curve removed data, by removing data exceeding the threshold value with respect to the first reference data, from the curve removed data, and by averaging the curve removed data; and calculating shape data of the concave and convex.