Appeal No. 2004-0659
Application No. 09/111,978
15. Referring once again to Fig. 2, U.S. Patent 5,464,733 states
(emphasis added):
Using the tri-linear array camera 24 for scanning produces three images of the
scanned surface 18 with each image being offset by a certain number of rows.
This offset is a function of the spacing between arrays and the rate at which the
image of the surface 18 is moved past the sensing elements 25. (Col. 4, lines 33-
38)
PROSECUTION HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL APPLICATION
16. As noted earlier, the patent sought to be reissued was based on
application 08/593,095, filed January 29, 1996 ("original application").
17. As filed, the original application contained claims 1 through 27.
Claims 1 and 14 were independent claims (reproduced below). Claims 2 through 13 and
15 through 27 depended therefrom, respectively.
18. Claim 1 as originally filed read as follows:
Claim 1 (as filed). A method for high speed, scanning phase measuring of
an object at a vision station to develop physical information associated with the object,
the method comprising the steps of:
projecting a pattern of imagable electromagnetic radiation with at least one
projector;
moving the object relative to the at least one projector at the vision station to scan
the projected pattern of electromagnetic radiation across a surface of the object to
generate an imagable electromagnetic radiation signal;
receiving the imagable electromagnetic radiation signal from the surface of the
object with a detector having a plurality of separate detector elements;
maintaining the at least one projector and the detector in fixed relation to each
other;
measuring an amount of radiant energy in the received electromagnetic radiation
signal with the detector wherein the detector elements produce images having different
phases of the same scanned surface based on the measurement; and
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