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Commercial Scanner System Manufacturers
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Structured Light and Broadband Source Systems

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3D-Shape GmbH (Germany) [Fringe projection system and CCD camera detector. Face scanning a specialty.]

Breuckmann GmbH (Germany) [Uses projected fringes and triangulation. Special versions for scanning faces and other body parts, skin, microstructures, RE, art and cultural objects, etc.]

Cynovad [Structured light using color patterns. Specialized scanners for dental applications. Possible to digitize a dental casting in 30 seconds.]

Eyetronics (Belgium) [Structured white light pattern with CCD camera sensors. Face and body scanners are a specialty, esp for clothing industries.]

Genex Technologies, Inc. [Projected white light patterns and CCD camera sensors. Face, breast, ear and other body part scanning is a specialty. Color capability.]

GOM mbH [Arm-mounted structured white light scanners.]

InSpeck, Inc. [Moire white light pattern generator with CCD camera sensors. Face and body scanning a specialty. Color capable systems.]

nub3d, S.L. (Spain) [Uses structured white light triangulation.]

Optical Metrology Ltd. / Optimet (Israel) [Conoscopic holography based on polarized light interferometry.]

scanSystems (Italy)

Steinbichler Optotechnik GmbH (Germany) [Laser line scanners and moire-coded white light triangulation technologies.]

Steintek GmbH (Germany) [Laser line and white light point measurement systems.]

VITRONIC Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH (Germany) [Structured white light systems for RE, machine vision and factory automation, QC. Also produces specific instruments for body, face and other medical scanning applications.]

VX Technologies (Canada) VX Technologies produces the StarCam (TM) series of light-based, color-capable digitizing systems. They’re able to capture a surface in less than a second, attaining an accuracy of 0.004 inches. Our powerful software allows you to automatically align and stitch multiple images. The patented Internal Optical Reference (IOR) capability in our FW-3 series corrects for temperature change and mechanical shocks to the camera.

Wicks and Wilson Limited (UK) [Mainly produces 2D scanners for microfilm and similar applications, but also makes head and body scanners using structured white light.]

 

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Boulder Innovation Group, Inc. [formerly Image Guided technologies] [Probe with IR LEDs and CCD camera sensors. Medical applications, such as surgery tracking are a specialty.]

Metronor [Visible LED probes and CCD camera sensors.]

Northern Digital [IR LEDs and CCD camera sensors. EM sensors are also available and offer the advantage of tracking markers outside the line of sight.]

 

 


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