Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080243441 | SIGNAL ANALYSIS METHOD FOR VIBRATORY INTERFEROMETRY - A signal analysis method for vibratory interferometry is disclosed in the present invention for measuring the vibratory characteristics of an object under test. The signal analysis method comprises steps of: obtaining a vibratory interferometric signal of an object under vibration; and analyzing the vibratory interferometric signal with a deconvolution operation to obtain a reformed vibratory interferometric signal. | 10-02-2008 |
20080285048 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY ACQUIRING INTERFEROGRAMS AND METHOD FOR SOLVING THE PHASE INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for simultaneously acquiring interferograms created with a plurality of different interference conditions are provided in the present invention. In the present invention, an object beam and a reference beam are used to interfere with each other and there are a plurality of sub-fields of interference simultaneously generated. All the sub-fields of interference can be simultaneously acquired by an image acquiring device with single shooting action so as to form the plurality of interferograms. Moreover, the present invention also provides a method for solving the phase information of the object beam from the interferograms formed by the foregoing said method. | 11-20-2008 |
20100033733 | VIBRATION-RESISTANT INTERFEROMETRIC SCANNING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A vibration-resistant interferometric scanning system and method are provided in the present invention. In the present invention, the brightness distribution in a high-coherence interference pattern is analyzed so as to perform a compensation action to lock the brightness distribution of a high-coherence interference pattern and consequently locking the fringe distribution of a low-coherence interference pattern or to perform a scanning operation composed of plural shifting actions with specified scanning distances in sequence and plural compensation actions to lock the fringe distribution in a low-coherence interference pattern corresponding to the surface profile of a measured object. Consequently, with the system and method of the present invention, the surface profile of a measured object disturbed by external or internal vibrations can be measured accurately and precisely. | 02-11-2010 |
20100085575 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING VIBRATION DISPLACEMENT AND VIBRATING FREQUENCY AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A exemplary method for determining vibration displacement in interferometric scanning, in which two optical signals having a phase difference with each other of a high-coherence interferogram corresponding to a tested surface is detected for determining a shifting displacement between the reference plane of interferometric apparatus and the tested surface. In one embodiment, a series of the shifting displacements with respect to a time interval are measured for determining the vibrating frequency of the tested surface by spectrum analysis. Meanwhile, an exemplary interferometric apparatus is also disclosed for calculating the relative position between the tested surface and the reference plane of interferometric apparatus whereby the interferometric apparatus is capable of compensating influences of vibration caused by the environment or the tested surface itself so as to obtain the surface profile and vibration frequency of the tested surface. | 04-08-2010 |
20100188400 | METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS HUE PHASE-SHIFTING AND SYSTEM FOR 3-D SURFACE PROFILOMETRY USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a method for simultaneous hue phase-shifting and a system for 3-D surface profilometry, wherein a single structured-light fringe pattern with encoded multiple trapezoidal color fringes is projected on an object so as to obtain a color image having deformed fringe patterns and then a hue information extracted from a HSI color model associated with the fringe pattern is transformed into a hue phase-shifting information for restructuring the 3-D surface profile of the object. Since the color structured light is composed of a plurality of colorful light having phase shifts with each other in spatial domain, the single structured-light pattern comprises multiple hue phase-shifting information so that the phase shifting and unwrapping can be performed by one-shot 3-D surface reconstruction process without needs of traditional conventional phase wrapping and Euler's transformation procedures such that the efficiency of phase shifting and 3-D surface measurement can be improved. | 07-29-2010 |
20100188742 | SLIT-SCAN MULTI-WAVELENGTH CONFOCAL LENS MODULE AND SLIT-SCAN MICROSCOPIC SYSTEM AND METHOD USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a slit-scan multi-wavelength confocal lens module, which utilizes at least two lenses having chromatic aberration for splitting a broadband light into continuously linear spectral lights having different focal length respectively. The present invention utilizes the confocal lens module employing slit-scan confocal principle and chromatic dispersion techniques and the confocal microscopy with optical sectioning ability and high resolution in spectral dispersion to establish a confocal microscopy method and system with long DOF and high resolution, capable of modulating a broadband light to produce the axial chromatic dispersion and focus on different depths toward an object's surface for obtaining the reflected light spectrum from the surface. Thereafter, the spectrum is spatially filtered by a slit and then a peak position with respect to the filtered spectrum along the scanning line is detected by a spectral image sensing unit for generating the sectional profile of the measured surface. | 07-29-2010 |
20100189372 | METHOD FOR ACQUIRING PHASE INFORMATION AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING THREE DIMENSIONAL SURFACE PROFILES - The present invention provides a band-pass filter, being capable of fitting a frequency spectrum area having phase information in a frequency spectrum image, to obtain a spectrum information corresponding to the phase information during the process of obtaining the phase information from the frequency spectrum image with respect to an object's surface profile. In another embodiment, the present invention further provides a method to optimize the spectrum range of the band-pass filter so as to enhance measuring accuracy and efficiency while restoring the surface of the object. In addition, by employing the foregoing method, the present invention further provides a measurement system for measuring three-dimensional surface shapes in which a deformed fringe pattern with respect to the measured object's surface is acquired and the phase information is obtained from the fringe pattern according to the foregoing method so as to restore the surface profile of the measured object. | 07-29-2010 |
20100214570 | ORTHOGONAL-POLARIZATION MIRAU INTERFEROMETRY AND BEAM-SPLITTING MODULE AND INTERFEROMETRIC SYSTEM USING THE SAME - An orthogonal-polarization Mirau interferometric system is provided, wherein an incident light is split into a reference light and an inspection light with the polarizations thereof being orthogonal to each other by using a beam-splitting module, while projecting the inspection light on a measured object to form an object light, and then the object light and the reference light are combined to form a combined light, and thereafter, an analyzer is utilized to modulate the polarizations and the intensities of the two lights for making the two lights interfere with each other and thus create an interference pattern. The polarization of the object light and that of the reference light can be adjusted by using an analyzer to become orthogonal to each other, and the intensities of the object light and the reference light can be adjusted to about the same for producing an interference pattern with high contrast. | 08-26-2010 |
20100277744 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESONANT FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION THROUGH OUT-OF-PLANE DISPLACEMENT DETECTION - A method for out-of-plane displacement detection is disclosed. The out-of-plane displacement is detected by analyzing all the fringe density indexes calculated using the frequency-domain information extracted from a series of interference images of the sample vibrating at different frequencies. The present invention further discloses a method and an apparatus for resonant frequency identification by detecting the peak value of all the fringe indexes calculated at different scanning frequencies. With the identified resonant frequency, the full-field vibratory surface profile of the sample in various resonance modes can be reconstructed. | 11-04-2010 |
20100277746 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LATERAL SCANNING INTERFEROMETRY - The present invention provides method and system for lateral scanning interferometry (LSI), which utilizes a reflecting reference element having a tilted angle for generating a tilted optical plane formed by wavefronts of a reference light so that interferometric patterns are acquired according to interferometric lights directed through an objective lens or an array of micro objective lens for analysis while the surface parts of the object enters the coherent range formed by the wavefronts of the reference light during lateral movement and a maximum signal intensity with respect to the acquired interferometric patterns can be obtained while the surface profile of the object has a zero or near zero optical path difference (OPD) with respect to the plane of wavefronts. The present invention is capable of reducing time cost comparing to the conventional vertical scanning interferometric method while enabling the system to be utilized for in-line (in-situ) measurement. | 11-04-2010 |
20100321773 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL POLARIZATION-BASED CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY - A method and system for three-dimensional polarization-based confocal microscopy are provided in the present disclosure for analyzing the surface profile of an object. In the present disclosure, a linear-polarizing structured light formed by an optical grating is projected on the object underlying profile measurement. By means of a set of polarizers and steps of shifting the structured light, a series of images with respect to the different image-acquired location associated with the object are obtained using confocal principle. Following this, a plurality of focus indexes respectively corresponding to a plurality of inspected pixels of each image are obtained for forming a focus curve with respect to the measuring depth and obtaining a peak value associated with each depth response curve. Finally, a depth location with respect to the peak value for each depth response curve is obtained for reconstructing the surface profile of the object. | 12-23-2010 |
20120292529 | STROBOSCOPIC OPTICAL IMAGE MAPPING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a stroboscopic optical image mapping system comprising a control module, an optical module, and an image acquiring unit. The control unit forms a delayed pulse signal by modulating a first pulse signal having a plurality of pulses with a pulse period, wherein a time interval between two adjacent pulses of the delayed pulse signal has a time difference with respect to the pulse period. The optical module provides an incident light to be projected on an organic object, which has a dye therein and is stimulated by a second pulse signal for generating a sequential action potential. The fluorescence generates from the dye inside the organic object, which corresponds to the intensity of the sequential action potential. The image acquiring unit is actuated to acquire the fluorescent light according to the delayed pulse signal, thereby forming a plurality of fluorescent images. | 11-22-2012 |
20130135715 | CHROMATIC CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE SYSTEM AND SIGNAL PROCESS METHOD OF THE SAME - A chromatic confocal microscope system and signal process method is provided to utilize a first optical fiber module for modulating a light into a detecting light passing through a chromatic dispersion objective and thereby forming a plurality of chromatic dispersion lights to project onto an object. A second optical fiber module conjugated with the first optical fiber module receives a reflected object light for forming a filtered light, which is split into two filtered lights detected by two color sensing units for generating two sets of RGB intensity signals, wherein one set of RGB intensity signals is adjusted relative to the other set of RGB intensity signals. Then two sets of RGB intensity signals are calculated for obtaining a maximum ratio factor. Finally, according to the maximum ratio factor and a depth relation curve, the surface profile of the object can be reconstructed. | 05-30-2013 |