US 11,988,501 B2
Method and a system for real-time high-speed three dimensional surface imaging
Jinyang Liang, Boucherville (CA); Cheng Jiang, Longueuil (CA); and Patrick Kilcullen, Montréal (CA)
Assigned to INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, Quebec (CA)
Appl. No. 17/310,489
Filed by INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, Québec (CA)
PCT Filed Feb. 6, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CA2020/050149
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 5, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/160666, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 13, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/902,445, filed on Sep. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/801,707, filed on Feb. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0357151 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G01B 11/25 (2006.01)
CPC G01B 11/2527 (2013.01) [G01B 11/2504 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for high-speed three-dimensional surface imaging of an object using band-limited illumination, comprising using one binary digital micromirror device pattern and a 4f imaging system to produce a greyscale sinusoidal pattern from an input laser beam, the grayscale sinusoidal pattern being processed by an adaptive error diffusion algorithm into a corresponding binary pattern able to be displayed on the digital micromirror device at the digital micromirror device's refreshing rate, to an image plane of a 4f imaging system, using an optical amplitude/intensity filter pinhole positioned at the 4f imaging system's Fourier plane; projecting each binary pattern displayed on the digital micromirror device onto the object; acquiring a resulting sinusoidal pattern as deformed by a geometry of the three-dimensional surface of the object using a camera and high-speed image data streaming from the camera to a graphic processing unit for parallel computation of image classification and phase extraction to reconstruct the three-dimensional surface of the object from the sinusoidal pattern deformed by the geometry of the three-dimensional surface of the object acquired by the camera; displaying the three-dimensional surface of the object as thus reconstructed.