3D Depth Measurement Using Boundary Line Inheritance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional 3-D depth measurement systems using hierarchically structured light face challenges in accurately determining boundary lines, especially in poor radiance environments and when dealing with varying surface reflectance, leading to decoding errors and inaccurate depth measurements.
Innovation Solution
A method that involves detecting boundary lines encoded at identical positions between layers, correcting for different reflectivities, and implementing a boundary line inheritance process to convert detected boundary lines into identical lines, thereby improving the accuracy of boundary classification and reducing decoding errors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional hierarchical structured light is used for depth measurement, then the system can operate in various lighting conditions, but boundary line detection accuracy deteriorates in poor radiance environments and with varying surface reflectance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by detecting boundary lines at identical positions across multiple hierarchical layers before final depth calculation. The system预先 detects boundary lines in each layer, then uses inheritance to refine and consolidate these detections, ensuring accurate boundary identification even when individual layer detections are compromised by poor radiance or surface reflectance variations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback through the boundary line inheritance mechanism, where boundary line detection results from upper layers are used to guide and refine detection in lower layers. The system continuously refines boundary line positions by comparing and inheriting information across layers, creating a feedback loop that improves detection accuracy in challenging lighting conditions.
2Device complexity
If boundary lines are detected independently in each layer, then the processing is simpler, but decoding errors increase due to inconsistent boundary classification
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges boundary line detection across multiple layers by implementing an inheritance mechanism that combines detection results from upper and lower layers. Instead of treating each layer independently, the system merges boundary line information hierarchically, using upper layer boundaries to constrain and refine lower layer detections, thereby reducing decoding errors while maintaining manageable processing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies the nested doll principle by organizing boundary line detection in a hierarchical structure where upper layers contain and guide lower layers. Each layer's boundary detection is nested within the context of upper layer boundaries, creating a nested detection framework that improves reliability without requiring complete re-processing of all layers.
3Measurement precision
If precise boundary line detection is performed in each layer independently, then local accuracy may be improved, but overall consistency and inheritance between layers deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses feedback to maintain stability across layers by having each layer's boundary detection informed by upper layer results. The inheritance mechanism creates a feedback loop where upper layer boundaries provide constraints that guide lower layer detections, ensuring that local precision in each layer contributes to overall consistency rather than creating discrepancies between layers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by allowing each layer to perform optimized local boundary detection suited to its specific characteristics, while the inheritance mechanism ensures these local optimizations maintain global consistency. Each layer can detect boundaries with local precision while the hierarchical inheritance framework ensures these local results contribute to stable, consistent overall boundary definition.
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AI summary
A method of decoding hierarchically orthogonal structured light and a 3-D depth measurement system using the same include a step of detecting boundary lines encoded at an identical position between layers and a boundary line inheritance step of converting the detected boundary lines into identical boundary lines. The present invention relates to a method of precisely searching for the boundary line of a pattern of radiated structured light based on the real coordinate system of an image plane, and an object thereof is to search for a boundary line irrespective of the reflection of a surface of an object, clearly classify a true boundary line and a false boundary line in a poor radiance environment, and increase the accuracy of a boundary line placed in another layer through inheritance.


