Patent ID: 7469834

Claim:
A scanner for providing a possibility of detecting a surface relief of an object, comprising: a projector configured to guide a light beam in an illumination line over the surface relief to obtain an illuminated location on the surface relief, the projector being also configured to output a projection signal from which a position of the light beam in the illumination line is derivable; and a collector having a collector micro mirror stimulatable to oscillate in two dimensions and a point-shaped light detector, the collector micro mirror being oscillatingly arranged in a first direction of the illumination line and in a second direction differing from the first direction such that a reflection of the illuminated location within the scan area of the collector micro mirror is imagable by it onto the point-shaped light detector, and the collector being configured to output a detection signal from which a position of the illuminated location in the first and second direction is derivable.