Generally, an apparatus for measuring a three dimensional shape is an apparatus measuring a three dimensional shape of a measurement object by radiating a grid-patterned light to the measurement object, receiving a grid image reflected from the measurement object and analyzing the grid image.
A conventional apparatus for measuring a three dimensional shape have had one projecting unit for radiating a grid-patterned light to a measurement object and one imaging unit for capturing a grid image reflected from the measurement object.
As described above, in case that a grid-patterned light is radiated at only one side in order to measure a three dimensional shape of a measurement object, a shadow region, at which a grid image does not arrive due to protrusion of the measurement object, is formed at the other side, thereby making it difficult to obtain a perfect three dimensional shape of the measurement object. In order to improve this, the three dimensional shape of the measurement object is measured by using the method that a grid-patterned light is radiated again after rotating and moving the projecting unit to the other side, but a problem of requiring relatively much measurement time occurs.
In addition, in case of capturing a grid image by using only one imaging unit, there has been a problem that a picture of a regular reflection surface cannot be accurately acquired due to regular reflection of the measurement object. In order to improve this, a method, in which regular reflectivity is reduced by using a filter or a control of light amount to acquire a picture of a regular reflect surface, is sometimes used, but in this case, there occurs a problem of reduction of measurement precision because a grid pattern of a three dimensional surface having a great regular reflectivity appears well but a grid pattern of an peripheral area does not appear well.
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