WO2000063676A1 - Procede et appareil permettant de mesurer la reflectance d'objets translucides - Google Patents

Procede et appareil permettant de mesurer la reflectance d'objets translucides Download PDF

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WO2000063676A1
WO2000063676A1 PCT/US2000/009900 US0009900W WO0063676A1 WO 2000063676 A1 WO2000063676 A1 WO 2000063676A1 US 0009900 W US0009900 W US 0009900W WO 0063676 A1 WO0063676 A1 WO 0063676A1
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  • This invention relates to a method to determine the correct reflectance values of translucent objects at one or more spectral wavelengths and one or more illumination and viewing geometries.
  • the method corrects for errors caused by lateral diffusion of instrument illumination light, within the object, to areas that cannot be viewed by the instrument detection system.
  • the reflectance of an object is measured by illuminating some portion of the object with light from one or more directions and measuring the magnitude of the light reflected from the object in one or more directions.
  • the light from the illuminating source may or may not passed through a monochromator or one or more spectral filters prior to illuminating the object.
  • the light reflected by the object may or may not be passed through a monochromator or one or more filters prior to be evaluated by one or more detectors. If filters with one or more specific band passes are used and the instrument is calibrated with a reflectance standard, the instrument might be referred to as a filter reflectance densitometer or a filter colorimeter.
  • the instrument would generally be referred to as a spectrometer. If the output of the spectrometer is referenced to a previously or concurrently measured calibration standard, the instrument is usually called a spectrophotometer . If a number of spectral reflectance measurements at specified wavelengths are made with the spectrophotometer and are processed a manner set forth by the CIE or ASTM ("Standard Practice for Obtaining Spectrophotometric Data for Object-Color Evaluation, " ASTM Designation E 1164(83), American Society for Testing Materials, Philadelphia, PA, incorporated herein by reference) , the instrument and processor represents a spectrocolorimeter .
  • CIE CIE
  • ASTM Standard Practice for Obtaining Spectrophotometric Data for Object-Color Evaluation
  • over-illumination, over-viewing, or two measurement position method is used to minimize LDE, it is assumed that the sample has a uniform surface and bulk content within all areas illuminated and viewed.
  • the extent of over- illumination or over-viewing is highly dependent on the translucency of the sample. For instance, some translucent plastic samples require illumination/viewing aperture differences of 20 mm or more. According to ISO 5/4, only a 2 mm on the side difference is used to obtain a useful measurement of photo papers.
  • An instrument designed for plastics measurements would minimize LDE when used for measuring photo papers. However, its aperture sizes might be impractical for the measurement of commonly used density wedges .
  • the methods for reducing LDE involve measuring the desired sample area and some area adjacent to the desired object area.
  • measuring a print control element could be accomplished by illuminating a 1 mm area in the center of the element and viewing a 5 mm area.
  • this geometry may give a measured value that is dependent on the positioning of the object relative to the instrument. If the viewed area was increased to 5 mm and the illuminated area was increased to 9 mm, then illuminated areas of different color adjacent to the desired object area would affect the measurement.
  • a reflectance measuring system that could illuminate the entire 5 mm square area and take measurements from the entire 5 mm area with little or no LDE uncertainty in the measured values would be highly desirable .
  • Such a method should be able to provide corrected measurements for objects with a wide range of translucencies without requiring mechanical changes in aperture sizes.
  • the invention is a method that determines corrected reflectance values for translucent objects without the use of over-illumination or over-viewing and without requiring mechanical changes in aperture sizes. This method derives a LDE corrected measurement value by viewing essentially only the area of the object lighted by the instrument illumination system.
  • the method comprises the steps of: a) determining a uncorrected reflectance for a measured area of the object by: i) illuminating an area of the translucent object to produce the measured area, ii) measuring the spatial distribution of the light reflected by the measured area, and iii) calculating the uncorrected reflectance for the measured area; b) calculating least one SDV for the object; c) determining a normalized LDE for the object by comparing the at least one SDV for the object with at least one predetermined relationship between SDV and normalized LDE, in which the number of SDVs for the object and the number of relationships is the same; d) determining an LDE for the object from the normalized LDE; e) calculating the corrected reflectance value for the object by adding the LDE for the object to the uncorrected reflectance.
  • the invention is an apparatus for determining the corrected reflectance of an object.
  • FIG. 1 shows an apparatus for carrying out the method of the invention
  • FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of an apparatus for carrying out the method of the invention
  • FIG. 3 is a plot of measurements and fitted functions of the normalized difference between the two channel detector system versus the normalized large area lateral diffusion error
  • FIG. 4 is a plot of measurements and fitted functions of the normalized difference between the inner and middle areas of a three channel detector system versus the normalized lateral diffusion error
  • FIG. 5 is a plot of measurements and fitted functions of the normalized difference between the inner and outer elements of a three channel detector system versus the normalized lateral diffusion error.
  • Apparatus Figure 1 shows an apparatus for carrying out method of the invention.
  • An area of translucent object 22 is illuminated by light source 21.
  • Detector 23 measures the intensity distribution of the light reflected by the illuminated area of object 22.
  • the signal is transmitted to computer 24. If necessary, the signal from the detector is digitized by an analog to digital (A/D) converter.
  • Computer 24 determines the total light received from the object by integrating the signal from the detector and also derives the spatial light distribution of the reflectance from the signal .
  • the computer determines the uncorrected reflectance using stored calibration data and the integrated total light signal. It then computes a LDE correction value from a function of the light distribution and adds it to uncorrected reflectance value to determine the corrected reflectance value.
  • the corrected reflectance value is then stored in a file or sent to an output device, such as a printer or display.
  • Light source 21 can be any natural or artificial light source known in the art, such as, for example, sunlight, an incandescent lamp, a fluorescent lamp, a mercury vapor lamp, a xenon lamp, a metal halide lamp, a laser, etc. Flash lamps may be used, such as a xenon flash lamp.
  • the light source may also comprise other components well known in the art for controlling, directing, focusing, and/or transmitting light, such as, for example, shutters, output optics, apertures, mirrors, lenses, gratings, monochromators, filters, fiber optic bundles, integrating spheres, etc.
  • Detector 23 can be any detector known in the art for detecting radiation, such as a photomultiplier, a vacuum or solid state photodiode, a CCD array, a diode array detector, an assembly of spectral filtered photodiodes, etc.
  • the detector may also comprise other components well known in the art for controlling, focusing, and/or transmitting light, such as, for example, shutters, output optics, apertures, mirrors, lenses, gratings, monochromators, filters, fiber optic bundles, etc.
  • light source 21 illuminates an area of translucent object 22.
  • the physical size of the illuminated area is not important provided it is large enough to produce a representative reflectance value for the object.
  • the area illuminated should be large enough to give a representative reflectance value independent of variation in sample position.
  • the illuminated area should not be so large that the detector cannot measure a representative reflectance for the object.
  • the light source can be the port of an integrating sphere source.
  • the light will be in the visible region of the spectrum, but the method is not limited to measurements in this region.
  • the light may also be, for example, in ultraviolet or infrared regions of the spectrum.
  • polychromatic light is used, but monochromatic light from a laser or a monochromator can be used.
  • the reflectance at a single wavelength is desired, either the light source or the detector will comprise a monochromator or a filter, or a monochromatic light source, such as a laser, will be used.
  • the light can be incident at 45° to the surface normal, but as apparent to those skilled in the art, other geometries can be used.
  • a reflector such as a front surface mirror
  • the intensity of the light source can be measured.
  • the measured intensity or intensities of the light source can be used to standardize the reflectance to account for differences in light sources using methods well known to those skilled in the art (see, for example, ASTM E 1164(83) and ISO Ref . No. 5/4 1983 (E) ) .
  • the spatial pattern of the intensity of the light reflected by the illuminated area of the object is determined. If the illuminated area of the object is reasonable uniform, the intensity of the reflected light at the edges of the illuminated area will be lower than that reflected at the center of the illuminated area.
  • the spatial pattern of the reflected light is determined with, for example, a black and white solid state camera chip, a segmented optical fiber assembly, etc.
  • the spatial pattern of the reflected light is transferred to the computer.
  • the computer calculates the total light reflected (the uncorrected reflectance) by summing the components of the spatial pattern.
  • the computer analyzes the spatial pattern and, as described below, derives a LDE value and adds it to the uncorrected reflectance to give the corrected reflectance value.
  • Figure 2 shows one embodiment of the apparatus .
  • light source 21 is a optical assembly ⁇ e . g. a fiber optic assembly) that sequentially illuminates two or more areas on the object.
  • the object could also be illuminated by, for example, a CRT flying spot raster light source or a small spot source projected into a raster on the same using oscillating mirrors.
  • the raster scan is started using the synchronizing signal from the computer.
  • a single detector may be used to detect the reflected light.
  • Detector 23 is a wavelength scanning monochromator with detector or a grating with diode array, an assembly of spectral filtered photodiodes, or a single detector.
  • computer 24 generates synchronizing signal 25, which initiates the sequential illumination process.
  • the relationship between normalized LDE and spatial distribution value (SDV) may be determined using a set of calibration standards.
  • the standards should include samples that vary widely in translucency.
  • Standards may include, for example, translucent plastics such as ABS, filled polymers, pigmented translucent plastics such as pigmented polymethylmethacrylate and other acrylate and methacrylate polymers and copolymers, polystyrene, paper, foods such as cheese, butter, etc.
  • Normalized linear diffusion error is calculated by the following method. First a large area of each standard is illuminated and the spatial distribution of the reflectance of a portion of the illuminated area determined. The large illuminated area is called the illuminated area and the small measured area is called the measured area. The measured area should be far enough away from the edge of the illuminated area that the measurement is essentially free from lateral diffusion effects. Preferably, the measured area is at or near the center of the illuminated area. Second, the illumination is adjusted so that only the measured area is illuminated. A second reflectance
  • (S) is determined for the measured area.
  • LDE is the difference in reflectance between first reflectance and the second reflectance.
  • the spatial pattern is divided into at least two concentric areas, preferably three concentric areas .
  • the areas are of equal area.
  • a spatial distribution value (SDV) is calculated by subtracting the integrated reflectance of the outer region from the integrated reflectance of the inner region and dividing by the integrated reflectance of the inner region.
  • Fig. 3 shows a plot of normalized LDE versus spatial distribution value when two regions are used.
  • a 45/0 narrow band (540 nm with 8 nm bandwidth) reflectometer using single beam illumination was set up on an optical bench. Twenty-nine samples of various translucencies were measured using both 38 and 8 mm diameter illumination and 8 mm viewing. Standards included pigmented polymers, filled polymers, paper, opal glass, pressed barium sulfate, etc.
  • the L values used for calculating the normalized LDEs shown in Figure 3 were obtained with the 38 mm illumination and a 8 mm viewing aperture.
  • the S values were obtained with 8 mm illumination and a 8 mm viewing apertures.
  • a fiber bundle for viewing the center of the illuminated area surrounded by an adjoining coaxial ring of fibers which view the outer portion of the illuminated area was used to divided the reflectance into two equal areas.
  • the spatial distribution value increases to a maximum and then decrease as the normalized LDE increases .
  • two spatial distribution values are calculated.
  • the first (SDV is calculated by subtracting the integrated reflectance of the middle region from the integrated reflectance of the inner region and dividing by the integrated reflectance of the inner region.
  • the second (SDV 2 ) is determined by subtracting the integrated reflectance of the outer region from the integrated reflectance of the inner region and dividing by the integrated reflectance of the inner region.
  • Fig. 4 shows a plot of SDVi as a function of normalized LDE.
  • Fig. 5 shows a plot of SDV 2 as a function of normalized LDE. This data were measured by a method similar to that used to measure the data in Fig. 3 except that a three channel fiber assembly consisting of a center bundle and two concentric ring bundles in which all three areas are approximately equal was used to divide the reflectance into three areas . Note that for certain SDVs the relationship between SDV and the normalized LDE is double-valued, i.e., a particular SDV is related to either of two normalized LDEs .
  • the spatial pattern of reflectance is measured for the object and the spatial distribution value calculated as described above.
  • any of the calculated SDVs (SDV, SDV l7 or SDV 2 ) can be used to determine the normalized LDE using the relationship between SDV and normalized LDE.
  • the LDE is added to the uncorrected integrated reflectance of the object, i.e. the first reflectance, to give the corrected reflectance value for the object.
  • SDVi and SDV 2 determine the normalized LDE.
  • the SDV is related to either of two normalized LDEs. However, the relationships shown in Figures 4 and 5 are not identical.
  • the two possible normalized LDEs are determined for each of SO 7 1 and SDV 2 and compared. A single function that uses both relationships between SDV and normalized LDE may be used if desired.
  • the normalized LDEs that most nearly coincide are used to determine the LDE. If the two values that most nearly coincide are not identical, the average of the two may used to determine the normalized LDE.
  • the normalized LDE is used to calculate the LDE and the corrected reflectance as described above.
  • the image of the illuminated area may be conveniently divided into concentric equal areas by use of a fiber optic bundle.
  • a fiber optic bundle For two areas, it consists of a fiber bundle for viewing the center of the illuminated area surrounded by an adjoining coaxial ring of fibers which view the outer portion of the illuminated area.
  • a three channel fiber assembly consisting of a center bundle and two concentric ring bundles is used in which all three areas are approximately equal .
  • Helmholtz ' s optical reciprocity as defined by Clark and Perry, allows the light source and detector to be interchanged as long as certain conditions are met.
  • a single channel detector can be used and the light source can be a moving spot scanner ( e . g.
  • a flying spot scanner or a two axis moving mirror system Integrating a full raster scan gives the first, LDE containing, measurement value.
  • a radial raster scan can be used to derive the reflectance intensity function used to derive the LDE.
  • the invention can be used to make accurate reflection measurements of translucent objects, such as paper, printed media, paint, plastics, textiles, and other manufactured product derived from animal sources, such as cheese, vegetable sources, or mineral sources.
  • the invention can be used to make accurate reflection measurements in, for example, the paper, printing, coating, plastics, textile, and food industries by illuminating small areas of the object.
  • the invention can also be used to make measurements used for formulation and for computer color matching of dyed and pigmented products .
  • the detector can be, for example, a detector system consisting of a scanning monochromator with a single photodetector or a grating - diode array spectrometer system. Several detector systems, which can measure all of the fiber channels simultaneously, can be used. Helmholtz optical reciprocity would indicate the object could be illuminated serially in each of two or more region while a single detector views the object. The reflectance from the measured area can be divided into more than three areas if desired.

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La présente invention concerne un procédé permettant de mesurer avec précision la réflectance d'objets translucides en illuminant de petites zones de l'objet. Le procédé de l'invention consiste à mesurer l'erreur de diffusion linéaire à l'aide d'un ensemble prédéterminé de normes de calibrage. On ajoute l'erreur de diffusion linéaire à la réflectance non corrigée afin d'obtenir la valeur de réflectance corrigée. Le procédé de l'invention possède de nombreuses applications potentielles dans l'industrie du papier, de l'imprimerie, du textile, du revêtement et dans l'industrie alimentaire.
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