US 12,455,352 B2
Three-dimensional scanning and image reconstruction thereof
Andreas Woloschyn, Stuttgart (DE)
Assigned to FARO Technologies, Inc., Lake Mary, FL (US)
Filed by FARO Technologies, Inc., Lake Mary, FL (US)
Filed on Oct. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/498,944.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/092,808, filed on Oct. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0120863 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G01S 17/42 (2006.01); G01S 17/89 (2020.01)
CPC G01S 7/4813 (2013.01) [G01S 7/4817 (2013.01); G01S 17/42 (2013.01); G01S 17/89 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A three-dimensional (3D) coordinate scanner comprising:
a housing having a top, a bottom, a first side, a second side, a first end face, and a second end face;
a 3D point cloud system within the housing and including a rotating mirror, the 3D point cloud system configured to acquire 3D point cloud data of a scanned environment;
a first color camera arranged within the housing on the first side and configured to capture respective color data of the scanned environment;
a second color camera arranged within the housing on the second side and configured to capture respective color data of the scanned environment; and
the first color camera has a field of view between +5° and +80° relative to a horizontal plane and the second color camera has a field of view between −65° and +10° relative to the horizontal plane.