Optics: measuring and testing – By shade or color – Trichromatic examination
Patent
1990-02-12
1991-11-05
Evans, F. L.
Optics: measuring and testing
By shade or color
Trichromatic examination
356407, 356419, 356425, 356 73, 364526, G01J 351
Patent
active
050627147
ABSTRACT:
A densitometer apparatus (210) is disclosed and is adapted to provide color density measurements of object samples. The densitometer apparatus (210) comprises a source light (578) for projecting light toward an object sample comprising a control strip (588, 620). A reflection optics assembly (576) is adapted to measure light density reflected from the object sample, when the object sample is in the form of a paper control strip. A transmission optics assembly (618) is adapted to measure transmission density of light rays projected through the object sample, when the object sample is in the form of a film control strip. A motor assembly (426) automatically moves the object sample (588,620) through the apparatus (210) adjacent the source light (578). Pattern definition data is prestored in memory of the apparatus (210). When control strips (588, 620) to be analyzed are "read" through the apparatus (210), a pattern recognition process is employed to compare strip color patches with the prestored data, so as to determine whether the control strip "matches" the pattern definition. The pattern definition data is stored so as to define "regions" where dimensional, positional and spectral color patch properties are within predetermined tolerances. An initial step of the pattern recognition process is to scan measured data representative of the control strip and assign regions. Comparisons of the pattern definition region data and measured control strip region data are then performed to determine whether an appropriate "match" has been obtained.
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Friend Timothy R.
Peterson Steven H.
Evans F. L.
X-Rite Incorporated
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