Patent ID: 7315643

Claim:
A method for measuring a three-dimensional appearance of an object, comprising the steps of: a) capturing a plurality of images of said object from different points of view, wherein a light pattern is projected onto the object from at least one position; b) measuring a three-dimensional in-sight appearance of said object based on said plurality of images at each of said views; c) calculating a correcting function to be applied to one of said three-dimensional in-sight appearances at one of said views to thereby minimize discontinuities between one of said three-dimensional in-sight appearances that is different from said one of three-dimensional in-sight appearances and a corrected three-dimensional in-sight appearance that is obtained by correcting said one of three-dimensional in-sight appearances with said correcting function; and d) synthesizing the three-dimensional appearance of the object based on said three-dimensional in-sight appearances and said correcting function.