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US 9,803,969 B2Granted
Metrology device and method of communicating with portable devices
AssigneeFaro Technologies, Inc.
InventorYu Gong
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Abstract
A system is provided for communicating between a 3D metrology instrument and a portable computing device via near field communications. In one embodiment, the metrology device is an articulated coordinate measurement machine (AACMM), a laser tracker, a laser scanner or a triangulation scanner, and the portable communications device is a cellular phone or a tablet. The portable device may use the NFC to establish longer range communications modules, to change or establish settings and parameters or control the metrology device.
Claims23
A metrology device comprising:
- a housing;
- a measurement device operably coupled to the housing and configured to measure an object;
- a wireless communications device operably coupled to the housing, the wireless communications device having an antenna, an electrical circuit and a first memory, the electrical circuit and the antenna being configured to cooperate to modulate an operating field generated by an external device, wherein the electrical circuit is configured to receive a first data from the external device and store the received first data in the first memory, the electrical circuit further configured to transmit a second data to the external device through the modulation of the operating field;
- an electronic processing system operably coupled to the measurement device, the electronic processing system being configured to determine three-dimensional (3D) coordinates of at least one point on a surface of the object based at least in part on a measurement of the object by the measurement device.
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A method comprising:
- providing a metrology device having a housing and a measurement device operably coupled to the housing, the measurement device configured to measure an object, the metrology device further having a wireless communications circuit having an antenna, an electrical circuit and a memory, the metrology device still further having an electronic processing system operably coupled to the measurement device and configured to determine 3D coordinates of at least one point on the object based on a measurement by the measurement device;
- providing a portable computing device having a processor, a second memory, a transmitter, and a receiver;
- transmitting an operating field with the transmitter;
- moving the portable computing device within a predetermined distance of the wireless communications circuit;
- receiving the operating field with the antenna;
- receiving at the electrical circuit a first signal from the antenna in response to receiving the operating field;
- and
- modulating the operating field with the antenna to transmit data from the electrical circuit to the receiver.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.