Patent ID: 9443301
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: D21F,D21G,D21H,G01L,G01N,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A process of determining the depth of a pocket in a woven fabric that includes warp yarns and weft yarns, the process comprising: forming a representation of a portion of a surface of the woven fabric to provide a fabric representation, the fabric representation showing locations of knuckles that are a part of the surface of the fabric and a location of a pocket that is formed in an area between the knuckles; identifying particular knuckles of the knuckles in the fabric representation that surround the pocket in the fabric representation; determining a path in the fabric representation that passes from a first of the identified particular knuckles across the pocket to a second of the identified particular knuckles; scanning the woven fabric using a measurement device along a line that corresponds to the determined path to provide a scan of the woven fabric; and determining a depth of the pocket.