Patent ID: 11859962
Assignee: BASF COATINGS GMBH
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for examining a coating of a probe surface, the method comprising using an examining device comprising a processor in communication with a memory to perform the steps of
receiving sensing data indicative of a depth of the coating at each of a predetermined subset of probe surface points,
determining a depth representation of the coating from the received sensing data, wherein the determined depth representation comprises a topographic map of the coating of the probe surface, and
deriving a coating property based on the topographic map, wherein deriving the coating property based on the topographic map comprises:
generating a depth histogram (H) by:
a) counting, for each of a plurality of predetermined depth intervals, a number of the probe surface points in the subset for which the coating depth indicated by the topographic map lies in the respective depth interval, and
b) associating the counting results with the respective depth interval.