85 results about "Phase resolution" patented technology

A reference image of a pattern having a first pitch and projected on a sample 1 by a projector 6 is captured by a camera 5. Next, a measuring image of a pattern having a second pitch and projected on the sample 1 by the projector 6 is captured by the camera 5. Here, the second pitch of the pattern light is determined by a value calculated based on the phase resolution of the pattern light having the first pitch. Then, using the reference image thus obtained, phase coupling for the measuring image is performed. The three-dimensional shape of the sample is obtained in this manner.

The present invention concerns a digital phase detector (PD) and also a method for digital phase detection, as can in particular be used e.g. in a so-called phase locked loop (PLL). According to the invention a digital phase detection signal (PD_OUT) is obtained, which specifies the phasing of an input clock signal (PD_IN) with reference to a higher frequency sampling clock signal (CK). In order hereby to overcome the limitation of the phase resolution as a result of a limited performance capability, in particular limited speed of the electronic components of a sampling device (14), a new kind of concept is used, in which the sampling clock signal (CK) is not immediately used for sampling (14), but is subjected beforehand to a digitally adjustable phase displacement (12). There originates an “auxiliary sampling clock signal” (CK<1:8>). The sampling (14) delivers a first, more significant digital component (OUT1<9:0>) of the phase detection signal (PD_OUT). Based on an evaluation of this first digital component (OUT1<9:0>) a phase displacement (12) is undertaken and a second digital component (OUT2<12:0>) of the phase detection signal (PD_OUT) is generated. The auxiliary sampling clock signal (CK<1:8>) is here adjustable in steps, which in each case are smaller than one period of the sampling clock signal (CK).