EP0876627A2 - Optical surveillance device - Google Patents
Optical surveillance deviceInfo
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- EP0876627A2 EP0876627A2 EP97948791A EP97948791A EP0876627A2 EP 0876627 A2 EP0876627 A2 EP 0876627A2 EP 97948791 A EP97948791 A EP 97948791A EP 97948791 A EP97948791 A EP 97948791A EP 0876627 A2 EP0876627 A2 EP 0876627A2
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- image
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- G—PHYSICS
- G01—MEASURING; TESTING
- G01V—GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; TAGS
- G01V8/00—Prospecting or detecting by optical means
- G01V8/10—Detecting, e.g. by using light barriers
- G01V8/20—Detecting, e.g. by using light barriers using multiple transmitters or receivers
- G01V8/22—Detecting, e.g. by using light barriers using multiple transmitters or receivers using reflectors
Definitions
- the invention relates to an optical monitoring device.
- DE 38 42 142 Cl discloses a method for optically recognizing objects, the device having a sensor device onto which a lens images the image of a pattern field and an evaluation device to determine whether the image received by the sensor device is the same has optical characteristics like the pattern field.
- a passive element namely the pattern field, is thus located at one end of the monitoring area, while the sensor device with the associated objective is located at the other end of the monitoring area, so that supply and control lines no longer have to be routed from one end of the monitoring area to the other end .
- the number of active elements is also reduced.
- the invention has for its object to provide an optical monitoring device that can be constructed inexpensively can, the number of active elements is reduced and a compact
- the optical monitoring device is characterized by a plurality of pattern fields, which are arranged at one end of a monitoring area, lenses at the other end of the monitoring area, which are each assigned to the pattern fields, reflectors, which reflect the image beams emitted by the lenses deflect an imaging surface, a sensor device onto which the lenses image the image of the pattern field, which scans the image and emits corresponding signals to an evaluation device which determines whether the image received by the sensor device has the same optical characteristics as the pattern fields.
- the monitoring device is composed of optical barriers of the type mentioned above and has several barriers one above the other. This arrangement creates a monitoring device, the function of which is comparable to that of a light grid, with a plurality of optical barriers being used to build up the grid of the monitoring device. Nevertheless, a single sensor device, advantageously a CCD camera, is sufficient to capture the image on the imaging surface and to supply corresponding signals to the evaluation device.
- the invention relates to a monitoring device made of optical barriers of the type mentioned, which is characterized in that a number of pattern fields are arranged on the opposite sides of a monitoring area, that two units, each having a lens and a reflector diametrically opposite corners of the surveillance area are arranged such that the units are rotatably arranged such that a lens scans the pattern field opposite it, and that a sensor device is arranged opposite each reflector, onto which the lenses image the pattern field, which scans the image and emits corresponding signals to an evaluation device which determines whether this is from the sensor device received image has the same optical characteristics as the pattern fields.
- two sensor devices are required, a number of optical components are saved.
- the sensor device is a CCD camera as it is inexpensively commercially available today.
- Such a camera can also be controlled in a simple manner so that it supplies the necessary signals for the evaluation device.
- a further advantageous embodiment of the invention consists in the fact that the optical characteristics of the pattern field consist in that the pattern field is subdivided in a defined manner into light and dark partial areas. With such a pattern field, both the brightness or color of the partial areas and the contrast between the light and dark partial areas can be used for the evaluation.
- the bright partial areas have an orange color (signal color), in particular a fluorescent color, since this improves the visibility of the bright areas.
- a further advantageous embodiment of the invention consists in the light partial areas and the dark partial areas having complementary colors, for example yellow and green, which creates a particularly simple type of evaluation.
- the pattern field is constructed in such a way that four partial areas are provided, diametrically opposite partial areas being light and the other two partial areas being dark.
- the pattern fields are provided in the form of strips which can be easily attached to the required locations.
- a convex lens and a collimator are advantageously sufficient as the objective in order to generate a sufficiently sharp image of the pattern field on the sensor device.
- the lens device or at least the convex lens is arranged displaceably along the optical axis, so that precise focusing can be achieved.
- the barrier is characterized in that a diaphragm is provided in the objective which fades out the image depicted by the objective on the sensor device except for the image of the partial areas.
- Each reflector is advantageously at 45 ° to the optical axis of the associated lens, so that an image of the pattern surfaces and only such an image is generated on the imaging surface.
- the reflectors are preferably offset from top to bottom in the direction of the objective by a step corresponding to the pattern field from a barrier.
- the images of the individual sample fields in the image area fit together seamlessly.
- the device is characterized in that the reflector is a half mirror and that a reference image to the image on the image surface is provided on a base surface which is opposite the image mirror surface with respect to the half mirror arrangement in order to ensure the proper function of the arrangement check.
- the sensor device CCD camera which scans the image on the imaging surface "sees" the reference surface through the half mirror, so that when the sensor device detects a change in the optical characteristics of the image without the beam path of a barrier being interrupted, it points to one Malfunction of the arrangement can be closed.
- the reflectors can be realized in a particularly simple manner by working them out of a side surface of a plexiglass body, the upper end surface of which is perpendicular to the side surface and forms the imaging surface.
- the units can be rotated through complete revolutions, a reference image for checking the correct functioning of the arrangement being acquired when the lens is turned away from the pattern field. Although this creates a small gap between one monitoring barrier and the next, the function of the arrangement is constantly monitored.
- Figure 1 is a schematic representation of an optical barrier.
- Fig. 2 is a schematic representation of a monitoring device which in
- FIG. 1 Fig. 3 is a detailed view of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a monitoring device according to a modified
- FIG. 5 shows a schematic illustration of the optical device
- the optical barrier 2 which has a pattern field 4 at one end of a monitoring area B.
- a lens 6 at the other end of the monitoring area images the image of the sample image 4 on a sensor device 8, in particular a CCD camera.
- An evaluation device 10 is connected to the CCD camera 8 to determine whether the image received by the CCD camera 8 has the same optical characteristics as the pattern field 4.
- a reference pattern field with the characteristics of the actual pattern field can be stored in the monitoring device 10.
- the optical characteristics of the pattern field 4 consist in that the pattern field 4 is subdivided in a defined manner into light and dark sub-areas 12, 14, four sub-areas being provided, two of which are diametrically opposed sub-areas light and the other two sub-areas are dark.
- the light sections can have an orange color or a fluorescent color, while the dark sections can be black.
- the light partial areas 12 and the dark partial areas 14 can also have complementary colors, for example yellow and green.
- the objective 6 can comprise a convex lens and a collimator in order to ensure an exact imaging of the pattern field 4 on the sensor device 8. Furthermore, the objective 6 or at least the convex lens can be arranged displaceably along the optical axis. A lens (not shown) can be provided in the lens 6, which fades out the image imaged by the lens 6 onto the sensor device 8 except for the image of the partial areas in order to eliminate interference.
- the barrier works as follows.
- the object When an object is introduced into the monitoring area, the object generally has a different brightness or color than the light partial area and / or the dark partial area of the pattern field.
- the camera detects the difference in brightness or color and the evaluation device switches off the monitored machine, for example.
- a pattern field with light and dark partial areas ensures that even if the object introduced into the monitoring area has the same color or brightness as, for example, the light partial area, the penetration of this object is nevertheless determined because the object then also covers the dark partial area , so that the detected optical characteristics differ from those of the pattern field. This ensures that the barrier reacts every time an object penetrates.
- Monitoring devices are constructed from such a barrier, with which larger monitoring areas are to be monitored, two or more of the optical barriers being used and the Evaluation of several barriers can be combined in one or two evaluation devices.
- FIG. 2 schematically shows a monitoring device 20 which is constructed in principle from optical barriers of the type described above, the barriers being arranged one above the other. From the top barrier, for example, the pattern field 4-, and the lens 6 consisting of the lens 22 and the collimator 24 are shown. The lens can be moved along the optical axis in relation to the collimator in order to obtain a sharp image of the pattern field.
- reflectors 26 to 26 which deflect the image beams emitted by the objectives on an imaging surface 28, where they are scanned by the sensor device, which emits the corresponding signals to the evaluation device (not shown).
- Each of the reflectors 26 ⁇ to 26 is at 45 ° to the optical axis of the associated lens, and the reflectors are each offset from top to bottom in the direction of the lens by a step corresponding to a pattern field from a barrier, as in FIG. 2 you can see. This results in a seamless mapping of the pattern fields 4 to 4 on the imaging surface 28.
- the reflectors are worked out on a side surface 30 of a plexiglass body 32, the end surface of which forms the imaging surface 28.
- the reflectors can be produced by coating or vapor deposition on the corresponding surfaces of the plexiglass body 32.
- the plexiglass body 32 is supplemented by a second plexiglass body 34, on the underside of which a reference image 36 is provided for the image on the imaging surface 28.
- the reference image 36 is shown separately from the underside of the plexiglass body 34 for simplification, but in practice the reference image 36 is attached to the underside of the plexiglass body 34.
- the reflectors 26 are half mirrors, so that the sensor device, which is arranged opposite the imaging surface 28, “sees” both the image of the pattern surfaces and the reference surface 36, so that the reference surface 36 can be included in the evaluation, and can be used in particular to check the proper functioning of the arrangement.
- FIG. 4 schematically shows another embodiment of a monitoring device 40 made of optical barriers of the type described above.
- a number of pattern fields 42, 44 are arranged on the sides of a monitoring area C.
- Two units 46, 48, each having a lens 50 and a reflector 52 (FIG. 5), are arranged at diametrically opposite corners of the monitoring area C.
- the units 46, 48 are rotatably arranged so that the opposite pattern fields 42 and 48 can be scanned.
- the axis of rotation is perpendicular to the plane of the drawing in FIG. 5.
- the beam path leads from the objective 50 via the reflector 52 to a filter 54, which is intended for example for an orange color, to a receiver 56, which thus responds to the fields of corresponding color.
- a receiver 56 detects the other side of the pattern field 4 (FIG. 1), so that the two receivers emit signals which are phase-shifted by 90 ° when a pattern field according to FIG. 1 is used. If a number of pattern fields according to FIG. 1 are strung together, a strip-shaped pattern field results, consisting of individual pattern fields.
- the units 46, 48 can only be rotated back and forth so far that the pattern fields are successively scanned in one direction and then in the other direction, which are opposite to that unit. Alternatively, the units 46, 48 can be rotated through full revolutions. If the lens 50 faces away from the pattern field during such a revolution, it acquires a reference image which is provided at a suitable location on the rear of the unit 46 or 48 in order to check the correct functioning of the arrangement. It can be seen that with this arrangement the Unit 46 monitors area C- and unit 48 monitors area Co, and at the same time the functionality of both units is monitored.
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