Patent ID: 9734609
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G01B,G06T

Claim:
1. A system for coordinate measurement and visual overlay, comprising: an articulated arm coordinate measuring machine comprising a base, a plurality of segments hingedly connected with a plurality of rotational transfer housings, and a contact probe at an end of the articulated arm coordinate measuring machine, the articulated arm coordinate measuring machine being configured to measure a position of an object contacted by the contact probe; an imaging member disposed on the articulated arm coordinate measuring machine near the probe in such a manner that the probe is not in the field of view of the imaging member; a memory configured to store preacquired geometry information; and at least one module configured to use positions measured with the contact probe to associate coordinate systems of images captured by the imaging member with the preacquired geometry information, perform a transformation operation on the preacquired geometry information to map the preacquired geometry information to the captured images, and overlay said preacquired geometry information over the captured images.