The present invention relates to an optical element, and more particularly, to a lens, a structured light projection device, and a 3D measuring device that has the lens.
At present, most 3D measurements are based on non-contact measurements of optical theories, and mainly based on the structured light imaging. A structured light imaging-based 3D measuring device includes a structured light projection device and image sensor element. Since the structured light projection device projects the structured beam onto the target object, and the image sensor collects reflection beam signals reflected from the surface of the target object, the surface profile of the target object can be calculated according to the change of the reflected light signal on the surface of the target object, thereby constructing a complete 3D graphics.
However, when the structured beam is projected onto the inclined target object, a keystone effect is created. In addition, when the image sensor element captures the image of the oblique object, the acquired image has a significant field curvature effect, resulting in the blurring of local areas. These phenomena can lead to the inaccuracy of 3D measurements.
The present invention provides a kind of lens to solve the issue of image distortion.
The present invention further provides a structured light projection device, to reduce the problem of the keystone effect generated in projected images.
The present invention further provides a 3D measuring device, to acquire clear images, thereby raising the accuracy of 3D measurement.
To achieve at least one of the above advantages, an embodiment of the present invention provides a lens that comprises a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group arranged sequentially from an enlargement side to a reduction side. The first lens group has a first optical axis, the second lens group has a second optical axis, the third lens group has a third optical axis, and the third optical axis overlaps with a primary optical axis of the lens. The first lens group and the second lens group are rotated in opposite directions so that the first optical axis and the second optical axis are adapted to be inclined relative to the primary optical axis. The first lens group is adapted to move towards the first side and a second side of the primary optical axis.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, diopters of the first lens group, the second lens group, and the third lens group are all positive.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the first optical axis and the second optical axis incline relative to the primary optical axis, and the lens satisfies the following equation:
0.85<|θ3/(θ1−θ2)|<2.72;
where θ1 denotes an angle between the first optical axis and the primary optical axis, θ2 denotes an angle between the second optical axis and the primary optical axis, and θ3 denotes the angle between the primary optical axis and a normal vector of a target surface located on the enlargement side.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the lens further comprises an aperture stop located in the second lens group, and the primary optical axis passes through the aperture stop.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the aperture stop is located on a side of the second lens group adjacent to the third lens group.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the first lens group comprises a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens arranged sequentially from an enlargement side to the reduction side, with respective diopters being positive, positive, negative, positive, and negative. The second lens group comprises a sixth lens and a seventh lens arranged sequentially from an enlargement side to the reduction side, with respective diopters being positive and negative. The third lens group comprises an eighth lens, a ninth lens, a tenth lens, an eleventh lens, a twelfth lens, and a thirteenth lens arranged sequentially from an enlargement side to the reduction side, with respective diopters being negative, positive, negative, positive, positive, and positive.
To achieve at least one of the above advantages, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a structured light projection device that comprises a structured light illumination system and the above-mentioned lens. The structured light illumination system comprises a light source and a light valve. The light source is adapted to provide an illumination beam, and the light valve is adapted to convert the illumination beam into a structured beam. The light valve is located on the reduction side of the lens. The lens is adapted to project the structured beam onto a target surface located on the enlargement side of the lens. The primary optical axis of the lens is overlapped with the normal vector at the center of the active surface of the light valve.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the structured light projection device further comprises an optical low-pass filter arranged between the light valve and the third lens group.
To achieve at least one of the above advantages, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a 3D measuring device that comprises a structured light illumination system, a beam-splitter, an image sensor, and the above-mentioned lens. The structured light illumination system comprises a light source and a light valve, wherein the light source is adapted to provide an illumination beam, and the light valve is adapted to convert the illumination beam into a structured beam. The light valve is located on the reduction side of the lens, the lens is adapted to project the structured beam onto a target surface of the enlargement side located on the lens. The primary optical axis of the lens is overlapped with the normal vector at the center of the active surface of the light valve. The beam-splitter is arranged between the light valve and the third lens group, wherein the structured beam so that the structured beam is transmitted to the lens via the beam-splitter. The image sensor is arranged adjacent to the beam-splitter, wherein after a reflected beam reflected from the target surface passes through the lens, the reflection beam is provided to the image sensor via the beam-splitter.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the 3D measuring device further comprises an optical low-pass filter arranged between the light valve and the beam-splitter.
Regarding the lens of the present invention embodiment, since the first lens group and the second lens group are adapted to rotate in opposite directions and the first lens group is also adapted to move, the problem of image distortion can be improved by moving and rotating. The structured light projection device of the present invention uses the above-mentioned lens, and thus it can eliminate the problem of keystone distortion in projected images. Further, the 3D measuring device of the present invention uses the above-mentioned lens, and thus it can improve the problem of keystone distortion in the projected images and the field curvature phenomenon in the sensed images, thereby improving the accuracy of 3D measurement.
To make the above-mentioned lens and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention more obvious and easier to understand, embodiments are given as follows to describe in more detail with the accompanying drawings.
In this embodiment, the first lens group G1 is also adapted to move towards the first side and the second side of the primary optical axis MOA. The first side and the second side refer to opposite sides relative to the primary optical axis MOA, e.g., the upper and lower sides of the primary optical axis MOA in
In this embodiment, the lens 10 may be a bi-telecentric lens. For example, the diopters of the first lens group G1, the second lens group G2 and the third lens group G3 may be all positive. In addition, the first lens group G1, for example, may comprise a first lens L1, second lens L2, third lens L3, fourth lens L4, and fifth lens L5 arranged sequentially from the enlargement side to the reduction side, with respective diopters being positive, positive, negative, positive, and negative. The second lens group G2 may comprise a sixth lens L6 and seventh lens L7 arranged sequentially from the enlargement side to the reduction side, with respective diopters being positive and negative. The third lens group G3 may comprise an eighth lens L8, ninth lens L9, tenth lens L10, eleventh lens L11, twelfth lens L12, and thirteenth lens L13 arranged sequentially from the enlargement side to the reduction side, with respective diopters being negative, positive, negative, positive, positive, and positive.
The above-mentioned the lens 10 may have an aperture stop 101 located on the second lens group G2, and the primary optical axis MOA passes through the aperture stop 101. The primary optical axis MOA passes through the aperture stop 101 regardless of whether the second optical axis OA2 is tilted relative to the primary optical axis MOA. In this embodiment, the aperture stop 101 may be located on the side of the second lens group G2 adjacent to the third lens group G3, i.e., located between the seventh lens L7 and the eighth lens L8.
In the lens 10 of this embodiment, the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2 are adapted to rotate in opposite directions, and the first lens group G1 is adapted to move. By adjusting the rotation angles of the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2 and the moved distance of the first lens group G1, the problems of keystone distortion and field curvature can be improved, and the effects of low telecentricity and low TV distortion can be achieved. Therefore, the lens 10 of this embodiment can improve the problem of image distortion, which facilitates providing high-quality projected images and obtaining clear side
images when applied to 3D measurement.
In an embodiment, when the first optical axis OA1 and second optical axis OA2 incline relative to the primary optical axis MOA, the lens 10 satisfies the following equation:
0.85<|θ3/(θ1−θ2)|<2.72; (1)
where θ1 denotes the angle between the first optical axis OA1 and the primary optical axis MOA, θ2 denotes the angle between the second optical axis OA2 and the primary optical axis MOA, and θ3 denotes the angle between the primary optical axis MOA and the normal vector of the target surface located on the enlargement side.
When the lens 10 satisfies the above Equation (1), the volume of the first lens group G1 and/or the second lens group G2 can be reduced, so the lens 10 has the advantage of a smaller volume. Moreover, the images projected through the lens 10 will not have the problem of blurring which makes the keystone distortion unable to be corrected.
Table 1 lists each parameter of the lens 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. It should be noted that the data listed in Table 1 is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, any skilled in the art may apply appropriate changes to the parameters or settings after referring to the present invention, and those changes shall fall within the claimed scope of the present invention.
The “thickness” indicated in Table 1 refers to the linear distance between two adjacent surfaces on the primary optical axis MOA of the lens 10. For example, the thickness of Surface 1 means the linear distance between Surface 1 and Surface 2 on the primary optical axis MOA. A surface with a positive radius of curvature means the surface is curved towards the enlargement side. A surface with a negative radius of curvature means the surface is curved towards the reduction side. The radius of curvature is infinite, which means that the surface is neither curved towards the enlargement side nor the reduction side.
Since the structured light projection device 20 of this embodiment adopts the above-mentioned lens 10, when the structured beam 214 is projected on the inclined target surface TP, the keystone distortion of the projected images can be avoided by rotating the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2 and/or moving the first lens group G1.
In an embodiment, the above-mentioned structured light projection device 20 may further comprise an optical low pass filter (LPF) 50 arranged between the light valve 212 and the third lens group G3. The optical LPF 50 may comprise birefringent material, wherein the birefringent material may include quartz material and a wavelength retarder. After the structured beam 214 passes through the optical low pass filter 50, it will have a specific target frequency to reach the goal of reducing or eliminating interference.
The beam-splitter 32 may be an element that partially allows light to pass through and partially reflects light, such as a beam splitter (BS) prism, R40/T60 (i.e., the reflectivity being 40%, and the transmittance being 60%) or R50/T50 may be selected according to different applications. In other embodiment, the beam-splitter 32 may also be implemented as a polarized beam-splitter, while the image sensor 33 is equipped with filters with four different polarization directions (i.e., 0 degrees, 45 degrees, 90 degrees, 135 degrees) to receive polarized light.
Since the 3D measuring device 30 in this embodiment adopts the above-mentioned lens 10, when the normal vector of the target surface TP is inclined relative to the primary optical axis MOA, the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2 can be rotated and/or the first lens can be moved, to avoid the keystone distortion of the projected image of the structured beam 214 on the target surface TP, and avoid making the image sensor 33 senses obvious field curvature of the image of the target surface TP, thus solving the issue that the blurring occurs in local areas encountered in related art techniques. Therefore, the 3D measuring device 30 in this embodiment may improve the accuracy of 3D measurement.
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Since the 3D measuring device 60 of this embodiment adopts two 3D measuring devices 30a and 30b, when sensing the target surface TP, it is possible to mutually compensate to eliminate noise points and reconstruct complete image data of the target object more accurately. In addition, in another embodiment, another 3D measuring device may be added on the normal 41 of the target surface TP to further improve the accuracy of the reconstructed image data.
Given the above, concerning the lens of the present embodiment of the invention, since the first lens group and the second lens group are adapted to rotate in opposite directions and the first lens group is also adapted to move, the problem of image distortion can be improved by moving and rotating. The structured light projection device of the present invention uses the above-mentioned lens, and thus it can eliminate the problem of keystone distortion in projected images. Further, the 3D measuring device of the present invention uses the above-mentioned lens, to improve the problem of keystone distortion in the projected images and the field curvature phenomenon in the sensed images, thereby improving the accuracy of 3D measurement.
Although the present invention is disclosed as the embodiments as described above, those embodiments are not meant to limit the scope of the present invention. As those skilled in the art to which the present invention belongs may make some changes without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, the claimed scope of the present invention shall be determined according to the following claims.
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 63/294,825, filed on Dec. 29, 2021, which is hereby incorporated by reference for all purposes as if fully set forth herein.
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63294825 | Dec 2021 | US |