Microfabricated Flipping Glass Disc for Stereo Imaging in Endoscopic Visual Inspection

Author

Choi, Wook ; Akbarian, Minoo ; Rubtsov, Vladimir ; Kim, Chang-Jin C J

Author_Institution

Mech. & Aerosp. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

fYear

2009

fDate

25-29 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

160

Lastpage

163

Abstract

In many fields, including medical and manufacturing, endoscopy is a powerful tool for remote visual inspection. However, images obtained by an endoscope are mostly planar and provide no accurate size or distance information about the object of interest. Use of stereo images to solve these problems greatly increases the performance of such inspection tools due to its three dimensional measurability. In this study, a method to obtain stereo images using a single "flipping" glass disc device for endoscopic applications, and its realization into a miniaturized device are presented.

Keywords

disc storage; endoscopes; inspection; stereo image processing; endoscopic visual inspection; microfabricated flipping glass disc; miniaturized device; remote visual inspection; stereo images; stereo imaging; Batteries; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical optical imaging; Endoscopes; Glass; Image generation; Inspection; Lenses; Optical imaging; Optical refraction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, 2009. MEMS 2009. IEEE 22nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sorrento

ISSN

1084-6999

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2977-6

Electronic_ISBN

1084-6999

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MEMSYS.2009.4805343

Filename

4805343