Optics: measuring and testing – By dispersed light spectroscopy – Utilizing a spectrophotometer
Patent
1992-05-08
1994-11-29
Johnston, Jill A.
Optics: measuring and testing
By dispersed light spectroscopy
Utilizing a spectrophotometer
356236, 250228, G01J 342
Patent
active
053694813
ABSTRACT:
A portable spectrophotometer includes a small-diameter optical sphere as well as optical detectors and signal processing and display circuitry which allows the instrument to be taken to an object to be measured and which provides a readout of color values at the portable instrument. The instrument is capable of providing specular-included and specular-excluded color readings simultaneously. The interior of the integrating sphere is coated with a highly reflective, color-absorbing material, and light from an incandescent lamp is diffused within the sphere prior to reaching the object to be measured. The sphere is provided with a first aperture which receives spectrally-included light and which is positioned to absorb a spectral component of the diffused source light. A second aperture positioned at a corresponding angular position with respect to the object measures specular-excluded light, excluding the specular component absorbed by the first aperture. Light detected from the first aperture is analyzed at a plurality of wavelengths obtained by the use of interference filters, and the light obtained from the second aperture is analyzed at one of the plurality of wavelengths. By appropriately combining the specular-included and specular-excluded at one wavelength, a value for the specular component is derived. Since this value is a theoretical constant, it is used to derive a specular-excluded reading from each of the specular-included readings at the different wavelengths.
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Berg Bernard J.
Boes Thomas J.
Cargill Mark A.
Rood Patrick S.
Johnston Jill A.
X-Rite Incorporated
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