Spectroscopic measuring instrument

A spectroscopic measuring instrument for providing information to be processed by an information processing system,

• the spectroscopic measuring instrument comprising:
• a spectrometer configured to make measurement of a reflection spectrum of an object relative to a light source and output measurement information representing a result of the measurement;
• a shadow projector comprising an object surface to receive light from the light source and one or more obstacles to allow light from the light source to cast one or more shadows on the object surface;
• an imaging device comprising an image sensor and configured to record an image of an imaging area including the object surface and output image information representing the image of the imaging area;
• a storage interface removably connectable to a computer readable medium;
• and
• a processing device comprising a first computer system connected to the spectrometer, the imaging device and the storage interface, and configured to perform a measurement process of storing the measurement information from the spectrometer and the image information from the imaging device in the computer readable medium connected to the storage interface, and
• the information processing system comprising a second computer system and being configured to:
• obtain the measurement information and the image information by way of the computer readable medium;
• and
• identify a positional relationship between the light source and the spectrometer at the measurement based on one or more shadows of the one or more obstacles cast by light from the light source on the object surface present in the image of the imaging area represented by the image information.