Patent ID: 8290245

Claim:
A method for measuring three-dimensional characteristics of an object using range data acquisition and analysis, comprising the steps of: providing means for configuring the range data acquisition and analysis before starting the measuring; creating an image of said object by detecting reflected light from said object using at least one sensor comprising pixels; acquiring range data of said object from the created image measured in sensor pixel units; converting the acquired range data from sensor pixel values to world-coordinates, wherein the method further comprises the steps of: rectifying the converted range data by re-sampling the range data onto a uniformly spaced grid in the world coordinates; analyzing the converted and rectified range data in order to obtain the three-dimensional characteristics of said object, wherein the configuration of the range data analysis comprises basic analysis tasks having at least one input parameter and at least one output result value, whereby the output result value from a first analysis task is used as input parameter to a second analysis task.