Patent ID: 7489813

Claim:
A method for simultaneously detecting the absolute three-dimensional shape and physical properties of an object, comprising the steps of: placing an object provided with photogrammetrically evaluable marks at a predetermined location on a surface thus defining a contact surface between said surface and said object, said surface being provided with additional photogrammetrically evaluable marks, said additional photogrammetrically evaluable marks being arranged in a predetermined manner with respect to each other in a way to define a coordinate system and a scale for obtaining absolute three-dimensional coordinates and being arranged around said contact surface, said surface being formed by a plate that contains at least one sensor which detects physical properties of said object, taking a number of overlapping pictures of said object from different views so that, in addition to said object, said surface is also at least partially depicted, and determining the three-dimensional shape of said object from said pictures with the aid of said marks of said object and of said additional marks of said surface by using a photogrammetric method, the photogrammetric method comprising acquisition of homologous pixels in overlapping pictures and determining the three-dimensional shape by calculating the intersection of homologous image rays.