US Patent Issued to J. MORITA on Sept. 8 for "Three-dimensional scanner and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,975, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to J. MORITA MFG. CORP. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Three-dimensional scanner and control method" was invented by Tsuyoshi Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional scanner includes a lens, imaging circuitry that obtains an image of an object located at a focal position of the lens, a lens driver that drives the lens to make reciprocating motion in a linear direction, obtaining circuitry that obtains geometrical data representing a surface geometry based on an image taken by the imaging circuitry, and lens controller circuitry that controls the lens driver to change an amplitude...