Patent Document ID: 20050068522
Application ID: 10958872
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A vehicle wheel alignment system for determining the alignment of at least one wheel of a vehicle, said system comprising: an imaging means having a first field of view encompassing at least a portion of said at least one wheel, said imaging means configured to obtain at least one optical image of said first field of view; a range finding means disposed in a predetermined relationship external to said at least one imaging means, said range finding means having a second field of view partially intersecting said first field of view and encompassing at least a portion of said at least one wheel, said range finding means configured to obtain data representative of a distance between said range finding means and at least one point on said at least one wheel within said second field of view; a processing system operatively connected to said at least one imaging means and said range finding means, said processing system configured to utilize said at least one optical image, said obtained distance data, and said predetermined relationship between said range finding means and said at least one imaging means, to determine one or more wheel alignment measurements.