Appeal No. 2004-0659
Application No. 09/111,978
PROSECUTION OF REISSUE APPLICATION
35. Applicant filed reissue application 09/111,978 on July 8, 1998,
seeking to reissue U.S. Patent 5,646,733.
36. Applicant presented original patent claims 1 through 27 along with
new reissue application claims 28 through 85 for consideration.
37. New reissue application claims 28 and 29 depended from claims 1
and 14, respectively. New reissue application dependent claims 31 through 41, 43
through 55, 57 through 59, 61 through 71, and 73 through 85, depended from new reissue
application independent claims 30, 42, 56, 60, and 72, respectively.
38. Reissue application claims 15, 18, and 26 were subsequently
amended to correct minor errors.
39. Reissue application claims 1 and 14 were each subsequently
amended to add the limitation underlined in exemplary amended claim 1, reproduced
below:
Reissue Claim 1 (Amended) 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 a substantially constant
velocity at the vision station so as 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 which are
substantially uniformly spaced;
maintaining the at least one projector and the pattern of imagable electromagnetic
radiation and the detector in a substantially fixed relation to each other;
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