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US 11,453,259 B2Granted
Object surface managing method and object surface managing system
AssigneePixart Imaging Inc.
InventorsGuo-Zhen Wang, Chang-Sheng Chiu
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Abstract
An object surface managing method comprising: (a) emitting detecting light to the groove via alight source; (b) receiving first reflected detecting light from the surface and second reflected detecting light from a bottom of the groove via a light sensor; and (c) calculating a groove depth of the groove according to the first reflected detecting light and the second reflected detecting light.
Claims2
A tire surface managing method, comprising
- emitting detecting light to a target object on a surface of a tire;
- receiving reflected detecting light from a top of the target object and reflected detecting light from the surface adjacent to the target object;
- determining whether the target object protrudes from the surface according to a distance calculated according to the reflected detecting light from the top of the target object and a distance calculated according to the reflected detecting light from the surface adjacent to the target object;
- determining whether the target object forms a hole on the surface according to the distance calculated according to the reflected detecting light from the top of the target object and the distance calculated according to the reflected detecting light from the surface adjacent to the target object;
- receiving the reflected detecting light from the surface to calculate a width of the hole on the tire;
- and
- activating a protection mechanism for a vehicle comprising the tire if the width is larger than a width threshold.
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A tire surface managing system, comprising:
- a light source, configured to emit detecting light to a target object on a surface of a tire;
- a light sensor, configured to receive reflected detecting light from a top of the target tire and reflected detecting light from the surface adjacent to the target tire;
- and
- a calculating unit, configured to determine whether the target object forms a hole on the surface according to the distance calculated according to the reflected detecting light from the top of the target object and the distance calculated according to the reflected detecting light from the surface adjacent to the target object;
- and
- a control unit;
- wherein the calculating unit further calculates a width of the hole according to the reflected detecting light from the surface, and the control unit activates a protection mechanism for a vehicle comprising the tire if the width is larger than a width threshold.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.