CA2652637A1 - Method for analysing reflective properties - Google Patents

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CA2652637A1
CA2652637A1 CA 2652637 CA2652637A CA2652637A1 CA 2652637 A1 CA2652637 A1 CA 2652637A1 CA 2652637 CA2652637 CA 2652637 CA 2652637 A CA2652637 A CA 2652637A CA 2652637 A1 CA2652637 A1 CA 2652637A1
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The invention relates to a method for analysing and describing the reflective properties of a three-dimensionally structured original surface. According to said method, the topology of the original surface is determined and the topological data is stored in the form of a depth map in a first data record and is evaluated with respect to the influence of said data on the reflective properties. Each surface element is assigned a reflective value in accordance with said evaluation and the value is stored in a second data record and made available to other machining or inspection systems.

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METHOD FOR ANALYSING REFLECTIVE PROPERTIES
Description The invention relates to a method for analyzing and describing the reflection properties of a three-dimensionally structured original surface, in particular an embossed surface, in the form of a data record that is made available to a machining system or testing system for surfaces.

Methods for assessing and/or analyzing the reflection behavior of surfaces are known.

One of the simplest methods consists, for example, in determining a "degree of gloss" according to standardized measurement conditions, for example ISO
2813, in the case of which the optical radiation reflected at an angle of 60 from the surface is measured and is assigned to a classification in degrees of gloss from matt to glossy, depending on percentage reflection. However, such a degree of gloss describes merely the averaged glossability of the entire surface considered for a specific light ratio.
Moreover, methods exist in which a statement regarding the substance itself is obtained by analyzing the reflection behavior of its surface. This is used, for example, when analyzing material samples such as liquids or powders, when examining welded joints or, for example, when controlling machining processes.
Thus, for example, EP 618851 Al exhibits a method for removing surface coatings/paints on a substrate, the method being controlled by the evaluation of a color difference of a reflected light such that only the coating to be eroded is removed, and the substrate itself is not damaged.
Concerning the production of artificial surface structures or surface coatings such as, for example, when producing artificial leather or plastic molded skins for parts of the inner cladding of motor vehicles, that is to say, for example, of door claddings or dashboards, methods are known in which the reflection properties of a reference surface/patterned surface are evaluated under controlled illumination and used as a basis for further control or working processes. It is peculiar to most of these methods of determination that the subjective evaluation of a practiced observer has so far been exclusively decisive between strongly or weakly reflecting subregions of a reference surface. Such a subjective evaluation can, however, disadvantageously only be transferred with insufficient accuracy into image processing or into automatic systems influencing the production process.
On the other hand, the subjective evaluation by the human eye is an extremely precise type of assessment of a structured surface that itself clearly registers even very small variations in the appearance of the surface, and has so far not proved to be replaceable by automatic methods. Transitions or boundary regions that arise, for example, owing to the juxtaposition of subsegments to form a total surface, the formation of repeats and moulette streaks are rendered just as visible as different or "unnaturally" acting optical reflection and/or optical refraction that results, for example from a chessboard-type patterning in the surface.

If, for example, it is wished to produce a plastic molded skin with a leather grain acting as naturally as possible, the reflection behavior, in particular, plays a large role. When looking at a leather surface, the human eye is accustomed to a specific reflection behavior in the case of different light ratios, and reacts extremely dismissively to artificial leather surfaces which precisely lack just this reflection behavior. A dashboard that is covered with a plastic molded skin with a leather grain that unpleasantly reflects in sunlight is rejected by the consumer. This frequently leads to the fact that when such molded skins are produced an additional three-dimensional "artificial" structure that diminishes the reflection is impressed, for example in the form of a regular perforation. However, as a general rule the impression of a "genuine leather surface" is thereafter no longer present.

The object of the invention was therefore to provide a method with the aid of which the reflection properties of a surface can be determined objectively, which moreover converts the reflection properties into parameters that can be made available to downstream systems, and which permits a description of the reflection properties in a fashion true to nature and makes these properties available in the form of a data record, inter alia for the production of artificial surfaces.

This object is achieved by the features of the main claim. Further advantageous refinements are disclosed in the subclaims. Likewise disclosed is an advantageous use of the inventive method.

The inventive solution consists here in that a) firstly the topology of the original surface is determined with the aid of a three-dimensional scanning method, and the topological data thus determined and essentially comprising the heights and depths belonging to each surface element of a raster spanning the original surface, are stored in a first data record, each surface element or raster element being assigned a measured depth value such that a depth map of the original surface results, b) the first data record is subjected to an assessment of the depth values with regard to their influence on the reflection properties, c) a reflection value is assigned to each surface element, depending on the assessment, and is stored in a second data record, after which the second data record containing the reflection values/parameters assigned to each surface element is made available to further machining systems or testing systems.

Whereas the previously known methods include only a subjective evaluation of the total surface via the degree of gloss or, under the influence of virtual illumination sources, allocate a reflection in a generalized way to a surface via photos or CAD
(Computer Aided Design) simulation, zhe essential step in the case of the inventive solution consists in the coupling of the reflection properties of a surface to the macroscopic depth structure, actually present in the three-dimensional surface, in differentially small surface elements. The inventive method thus departs from a generalized approach, and generates a correlation of depth structure, that is to say the highly resolved topological map of the surface, and the local reflection behavior.
One advantageous development consists in that the method steps b) and c) are designed such that b) the first data record is subjected to an edge detection and subsequently an averaging with reference to the depth values, and c) the value that is obtained by the averaging and describing the frequency and/or height of the edges is assigned to each surface element as reflection value and is stored in a second data record.

Proceeding from the physical effect of the scattering of the light at edges, and from the reflectivity influenced thereby, of a randomly arranged number of edges, the solution formed further here consists in rendering the method, known per se from image processing, of edge detection by means of specific mathematical operators, that is to say, for example, by means of Sobel or Laplace operators, useful for reflection analysis of three-dimensional surfaces by for the first time providing as data for the calculation actual and physically present depth information and/or depth differences, that is to say actual edges.

Specifically, in image processing to date all that has been performed is a two-dimensional viewing, detection and processing of "boundaries" within an image that have been formed by brightness differences. These boundaries are denoted as "edges" and their detection as "edge detection". Such an edge detection is used, for example, to detect or count on an assembly line objects that are to be machined and are photographed or filmed with the aid of a camera. Such a two-dimensional viewing is certainly sufficient for detecting two-dimensional spatial assignments, but not sufficient for the complicated structure of a three-dimensional surface, nor for the modeling of a reflection property to be derived therefrom.

The reflection properties described by the reflection values need not, incidentally, be stored as absolute values; relative reflection values, that is to say the differences between the reflection values of individual surface elements, suffice for carrying out the method, and also for use thereof. For example, relative frequencies of edges can be stored as a parameter that describes the reflection value.

One development consists in that the averaging is performed after the edge detection such that surface elements are combined into groups, and in each case edge frequencies and/or heights averaged inside the groups by proximity operations are assigned to the groups and stored in the second data record. For example, such an averaging is performed by a Gaussian filter as operator. This yields a characterization or generalization by means of which the, if appropriate, greatly varying number and thickness/height of the edges are ascribed to appropriately homogenized reflection values that can be advantageous in the further method and, for example, in the use of data to control processing machines.

One further advantageous development consists in that a directionally dependent filtering of the depth values of the first data record is performed before the edge detection. By means of such a directionally dependent filtering that can be carried out with the aid of various mathematical operators, the statement regarding the reflectivity, which is oriented only toward edge height and edge frequency by the normal edge detection, is substantially refined such that the reflection properties can likewise be represented objectively and measurably for different illumination conditions or angles of view.

A further advantageous development consists in that the filtering is performed before the edge detection by a directed Gaussian filtering. What is involved here is a simple operator that works rapidly and enables a sufficient number of directions to be represented with regard to their reflection properties within acceptable times.

One advantageous development consists in that the so-called ray tracing method is used to determine the reflection properties/reflection values of actual three-dimensional structures by designing the method steps b) and c) such that b) an optical radiation acting on the contour, characterized by the first data record of the depth values, of the original surface is described by a simulation model, and that c) the reflection of said optical radiation is calculated from the depth discontinuities of the irradiated surface elements, assigned to a reflection value and stored in a second data record.

On the basis of the strictly physical alignment - and depending on simulation model - this development of the method returns very good results in the objective description of the reflectivity, but necessitates a substantial outlay on computation, particularly in the case of the directionally dependent viewing.

One particularly advantageous use of the method in order to influence/improve the reflection properties of artificially produced surfaces, in particular surfaces of embossed plastic films, consists in that d) the reflection values of the second data record are divided into classes, e) the depth values, assigned to the classified reflection values, of the first data record are varied in accordance with the classification, and f) the varied depth values are used as parameters for electronically controlling a tool in order to machine the artificially produced surface.

The inventive method can thus be used for any type of method for producing artificial surfaces. The depth structures of a surface that are modified and thus optimized with regard to the reflection property can therefore be superposed as simple parameters on any basic depth scheme/structure scheme howsoever produced in advance, and are therefore directly available as controlled variables. By way of example, such a use would enable a leather selected for an automobile interior on the basis of its shape and embossment, for example water buffalo leather, which although possessing a "robust impression" desired by the consumer, reflects unpleasantly on a dashboard given a specific incidence of light to be produced as a plastic molded skin with a reflection optimized depth structure, without influencing the overall impression desired.

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1) A method for analyzing and describing the reflection properties of a three-dimensionally structured original surface, in particular an embossed surface, in the form of a data record that is made available to a machining system or testing system for surfaces, characterized in that a) firstly the topology of the original surface is determined with the aid of a three-dimensional scanning method, and the topological data thus determined and essentially comprising the height values and depth values belonging to each surface element of a raster spanning the original surface, are stored in a first data record, each surface element or raster element being assigned a measured depth value such that a depth map of the original surface results, b) the first data record is subjected to an assessment of the depth values with regard to their influence on the reflection properties, c) a reflection value is assigned to each surface element, depending on the assessment, and is stored in a second data record, after which the second data record containing the reflection values assigned to each surface element is made available to further machining systems or testing systems.
2) The method as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the method steps b) and c) are designed such that b) the first data record is subjected to an edge detection and subsequently an averaging with reference to the depth values, and c) the value that is obtained by the averaging and describing the frequency and/or height of the edges is assigned to each surface element as reflection value and is stored in a second data record.
3) The method as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that the averaging is performed after the edge detection such that surface elements are combined into groups, and in each case edge frequencies and/or heights averaged inside the groups by proximity operations are assigned to the groups and stored in the second data record.
4) The method as claimed in claim 2 or 3, characterized in that a directionally dependent filtering of the depth values of the first data record is performed before the edge detection.
5) The method as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that the filtering is performed before the edge detection by a directed Gaussian filtering.
6) The method as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the method steps b) and c) are designed such that b) an optical radiation acting on the contour, characterized by the first data record of the depth values, of the original surface is described by a simulation model, and that c) the reflection of said optical radiation is calculated from the depth discontinuities of the irradiated surface elements, assigned to a reflection value and stored in a second data record.
7) The use of the method as claimed in claims 1 to 6 in order to influence/improve the reflection properties of artificially produced surfaces, in particular surfaces of embossed plastic films, characterized in that d) the reflection values of the second data record are divided into classes, e) the depth values, assigned to the classified reflection values, of the first data record are varied in accordance with the classification, and f) the varied depth values are used as parameters for electronically controlling a tool in order to machine the artificially produced surface.
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