Patent Document ID: 8340466
Application ID: 11658713
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. Arrangement for imaging surface structures of three-dimensional objects, having a device for optically recording the surface of at least one partial region of the three-dimensional object from different positions, a digitalization unit that serves to store the optical data about the two-dimensional surface structure of the at least one partial region of the object in memory, and having an image processing unit in which a three-dimensional overall image is produced from two-dimensional image sections, wherein the arrangement has a selection circuit ( 9 ) for selecting a first image section ( 10 ), the optical data of which result from a first observation direction and are digitally recorded, and a subsequent image module ( 11 ), in which optical data of at least one further image section ( 12 ), proceeding from a changed observation direction, are digitally recorded, and that a matching unit ( 16 ) is provided, in which matching of the digital patterns ( 13 , 14 ) contained in the first ( 10 ) and the at least one other image section ( 12 ) takes place, with regard to characteristic digital patterns that essentially agree with one another, and in which matching data are generated, as a function of the agreement of the digital patterns ( 13 , 14 ), which data are available to the image processing unit ( 19 ) for determining the spatially related parameters and for aggregating the image sections ( 10 , 12 ) of the object to produce an overall image, wherein the object consists of at least two partial objects ( 22 , 23 ) that are situated in a functionally related reference position (R) relative to one another, and wherein a correlation device ( 24 , 25 ) is provided, with which at least two partial objects ( 22 , 23 ) are connected with one another in such a manner that at least one of the partial objects ( 22 ) can be moved into an imaging position (A) that differs from the reference position (R), in order to prepare for optical recording of the surface of the at least two partial objects ( 22 , 23 ), in which optical recording of the partial objects ( 22 , 23 ) and of the correlation device ( 24 , 25 ) that connects the partial objects ( 22 , 23 ) takes place, wherein the reference position (R) of the at least two partial objects ( 22 , 23 ) is determined by means of calculations, from the data about the partial objects ( 22 , 23 ) and about the correlation device ( 24 , 25 ) obtained in the imaging position (A), as well as from knowledge of the verifiable change in position of the at least one partial object ( 22 ) from the reference position (R) into the imaging position (A) connected with the correlation device ( 24 , 25 ).