Patent ID: 7764386
Filing Date: 2010-07-27
Classification: G01B

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling relative measurement positions and measurement postures of a three-dimensional measurement device and an object when the three-dimensional measurement device is used to conduct a measurement of a surface shape of the object sequentially, the method comprising: fixing one of the three-dimensional measurement device or the object; supporting a non-fixed one of the three-dimensional measurement device or the object at a support point with a manipulator; and driving the manipulator between a first measurement and a second measurement, the first measurement being conducted by the three-dimensional measurement device when the support point is set to a first position and the three-dimensional measurement device or the object is in a first measurement posture, and the second measurement being conducted by the three-dimensional measurement device when the support point is set to a second position and the three-dimensional measurement device or the object is in a second measurement posture, wherein the second position is a position where the support point is changed, about a reference position within a measurable area of the three-dimensional measurement device in the first measurement, to an opposite side by a degree equal to a portion corresponding to a change from the first measurement posture to the second measurement posture.