3D Scanning / wide range time of flight measurement

[smatech]

Hello everybody,

I am currently involved in a new technology that captures environments and creates 3D models thereof. In particular, the technology offers the following cool benefits:

- Captures large areas of up to 32x32ft (or 10x10m)
- Offers high precision of 0.03" (or 1mm)
- Detects motions in real-time with up to 1000fps (Response time: 1ms)
- Offers high resolution of 640x480 (VGA)
- Works independent of light (both bright and dark light conditions)
- Is resistent to interference due to HDDM (High Definition Distance Measurement)
- Is portable (0.8"x0.8")
- Consumes low power (50mW-500mW)
- Captures an angle of 180°; when combining two modules 360° would be possible.

Do you have any application fields in mind?
We would be highly interested in applications or problems with focus on a rather large group of users.

Thank you in advance for your support!

cheers, Thomas

 

[bbinnard]

Get in touch with people like James Cameron or anyone in the moition picture production business - you have re-invented mocap (motion capture) which is a well-proven technology.

 

[intx13]

640x480 stereoscopic capture at 1000 frames per second across a 180 degree field of view, packaged into in less than a square inch and consuming less than 1 Watt? Any two of those parameters together would be impressive. All five is rather... impossible?

 

[smatech]

yes

do you have any applicaton fields in mind?

thx in advance!

 

[Xtrem]

Pix or it didn't happen?

 

[jaedaliu]

factory automation.

I'm curious, how do you get mm accuracy with such low resolution across such a large area?

oh.

It's not visual. Nevermind my previous question. new questions:

What does resolution have to do with anything?

All this is done with a single 0.8" x 0.8" flat object?

What's the 3rd dimension? (32' x 32' x ?') (angles of 180 deg by ? deg)

Is the battery contained?

Is all the computation done on the single device?

How is the data taken off?

when will this be ready for commercial applications?

 

[intx13]

My comment was meant to imply that you don't actually have a solution with all those features. It's too far fetched. Plus, if you really had it in a footprint that small you'd be at production... Which means you'd already have a customer in mind. Finally, anybody with the funding and engineering team to put something like that together could name a few dozen DOD/IC applications off the top of their head.. And not be asking on a forum.