Abstract: An electronic communication network comprises a server platform and client data processing devices. Each client data processing device is configured to submit electronic messages to the server platform, provided with a timestamp. The server platform is configured to process incoming electronic messages strictly in a sequence corresponding to the timestamp. The electronic communication network comprising at least one switch, wherein the switch is arranged to receive electronic messages from a plurality of the client data processing devices. the switch comprises a buffer and is configured to store the electronic messages produced by the client data processing devices in the buffer, and to transfer the electronic messages in a manner sorted according to the timestamp provided to each electronic message by the time generator of the client data processing device submitting the electronic message, so that the electronic message with the oldest time is transferred first.

Abstract: In order to provide a method for predicting process deviations in an industrial-method plant, for example a painting plant, by means of which process deviations are predictable simply and reliably, it is proposed according to the invention that the method should comprise the following: automatic generation of a prediction model; prediction of process deviations during operation of the industrial-method plant, using the prediction model.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stock exchange trading platform for a plurality of trader data processing devices that are in communication connection with the trading platform, wherein the trading platform has a trading platform data processing device (“matcher”), which is able to store orders generated by one of the trader data processing devices in an order book, or to fill a matching order that is already recorded in the order book, at least partially, to acknowledge such received orders to the dispatching trader data processing device, and furthermore, to send messages to a plurality of connected trader data processing devices (in the case of a trading system with equally entitled traders, to everybody) in a broadcast mode. The trading platform is in particular characterized in that a unit of the trading data processing device controlling the optional execution or storing of the orders is configured as a dedicated logic circuit.

Abstract: A system for scanning anatomical structures and for visualizing the scanning result, wherein the system includes an intraoral scanner, which intraorally captures an image of the anatomical structures, an extraoral detection unit, which detects a spatial position of the intraoral scanner relative to an observer or a person conducting the scan, and a computing unit, which, during the scanning procedure, connects the scanner with a screen and the detection unit and generates a scanning result based on the intraorally captured image of the anatomical structures and the detected spatial position of the intraoral scanner relative to the observer, and which, during pauses in the scanning procedure, estimates the position, orientation and scaling of the anatomical structures and, as a scanning result, generates an image of the anatomical structures corresponding to the estimation, and wherein the screen displays the scanning result generated by the computing unit.

Abstract: A device and method and system for utilizing confocal measurement and an optical arrangement to produce 3D color images. A color measurement optical path and a 3D measurement optical path may coincide at least at an object side of the device, and a minimal amount of light is extracted from a monitoring beam for color measurement without affecting 3D measurement.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus (28) for varying a focal point (24) of an optical system in a dental 3D-scanner (10), comprising: a lens unit (30) with a lens (20) being movable between a front reversal position and a rear reversal position to vary a position of a focal point with respect to a scan object (22): a guide unit (34) for guiding a movement of the lens unit between the front reversal position and the rear reversal position along a guide axis (48) being parallel to an optical axis (46) of the lens; and a drive unit (36) for driving the movement of the lens unit, said drive unit including a linear motor (38) with an anchor (40) and a stator (42), said anchor being movable along a drive axis (44) of the drive unit that is parallel to the guide axis, said stator being affixed to the guide unit. The present invention further relates to a dental 3D-scanner (10) for scanning a three-dimensional scan object.

Abstract: A device and method and system for utilizing confocal measurement and an optical arrangement to produce 3D color images. A color measurement optical path and a 3D measurement optical path may coincide at least at an object side of the device, and a minimal amount of light is extracted from a monitoring beam for color measurement without affecting 3D measurement.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stock exchange trading platform for a plurality of trader data processing devices that are in communication connection with the trading platform, wherein the trading platform has a trading platform data processing device (“matcher”), which is able to store orders generated by one of the trader data processing devices in an order book, or to fill a matching order that is already recorded in the order book, at least partially, to acknowledge such received orders to the dispatching trader data processing device, and furthermore, to send messages to a plurality of connected trader data processing devices (in the case of a trading system with equally entitled traders, to everybody) in a broadcast mode. The trading platform is in particular characterized in that a unit of the trading data processing device controlling the optional execution or storing of the orders is configured as a dedicated logic circuit.

Abstract: A device, method and system for utilizing an optical array generator, confocal measurement/depth of focus techniques to generate dynamic patterns in a camera for projection onto the surface of an object for three-dimensional (3D) measurement. Projected light patterns are used to generate optical features on the surface of an object to be measured and optical 3D measuring methods which operate according to triangulation, confocal and depth of focus principles are used to measure the object.

Abstract: An electronic communication network comprises a server platform and client data processing devices. Each client data processing device is configured to submit electronic messages to the server platform, provided with a timestamp. The server platform is configured to process incoming electronic messages strictly in a sequence corresponding to the timestamp. The electronic communication network comprising at least one switch, wherein the switch is arranged to receive electronic messages from a plurality of the client data processing devices. the switch comprises a buffer and is configured to store the electronic messages produced by the client data processing devices in the buffer, and to transfer the electronic messages in a manner sorted according to the timestamp provided to each electronic message by the time generator of the client data processing device submitting the electronic message, so that the electronic message with the oldest time is transferred first.

Abstract: A device, method and system for utilizing an optical array generator, confocal measurement/depth of focus techniques to generate dynamic patterns in a camera for projection onto the surface of an object for three-dimensional (3D) measurement. Projected light patterns are used to generate optical features on the surface of an object to be measured and optical 3D measuring methods which operate according to triangulation, confocal and depth of focus principles are used to measure the object.

Abstract: A device and method and system for utilizing confocal measurement and an optical arrangement to produce 3D color images. A color measurement optical path and a 3D measurement optical path may coincide at least at an object side of the device, and a minimal amount of light is extracted from a monitoring beam for color measurement without affecting 3D measurement.

Abstract: A system for scanning anatomical structures and for visualizing the scanning result, wherein the system includes an intraoral scanner, which intraorally captures an image of the anatomical structures, an extraoral detection unit, which detects a spatial position of the intraoral scanner relative to an observer or a person conducting the scan, and a computing unit, which, during the scanning procedure, connects the scanner with a screen and the detection unit and generates a scanning result based on the intraorally captured image of the anatomical structures and the detected spatial position of the intraoral scanner relative to the observer, and which, during pauses in the scanning procedure, estimates the position, orientation and scaling of the anatomical structures and, as a scanning result, generates an image of the anatomical structures corresponding to the estimation, and wherein the screen displays the scanning result generated by the computing unit.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical system for generating a pattern which changes over time for a confocal microscope. The system includes a light source arrangement, a beam splitter, and a lens arrangement. The beam splitter allows for passage of a light beam proceeding from the light source arrangement in the direction of an object and for deflecting the reflected light beam, reflected by the object in a focal plane, in the direction of a detector. The detector includes a detector pattern for detecting an image of the object. The lens arrangement is between the beam splitter and the object and includes: a light source that generates the light beam, and a device configured to switch a direction of polarization of the light beam to generate a changing projector pattern.

Abstract: The invention relates to a scanning device, comprising a handle (10) to be held by an operating person and a mouthpiece (20). The scanning device is inserted into the mouth of a patient by means of the mouthpiece (20). There, during a recording by means of a sensing apparatus provided in the mouthpiece and a scanning apparatus (60), a section of a dental arch in the mouth is scanned and three-dimensionally measured, wherein many individual scans of different sections of the dental arch are recorded and are combined into a total image. The scanning device also has a drive apparatus (80), which drives the sensing apparatus in such a way that the sensing apparatus moves from one section to a next section of the dental arch in order to perform a particular individual scan, and a control apparatus (70), which controls the drive apparatus (80) in such a way that the drive apparatus moves the sensing apparatus to a desired location of the dental arch.

Abstract: A stock trading system according to one aspect of the invention is provided which has: a trading platform; and—a plurality of trading data processing units;—wherein each trading data processing unit is capable of submitting orders in the form of electronic messages to the trading platform, and the trading platform is capable of storing these orders in an order book or, in the case of an order already appropriately stored in the order book, at least partially executing it;—wherein each trading data processing unit has a clock and is designed to provide each order with a timestamp which represents the time of the submission of the order;—and wherein the system is designed such that the trading platform processes incoming orders strictly in a sequence which corresponds to the timestamp.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stock exchange trading platform for a plurality of trader data processing devices that are in communication connection with the trading platform, wherein the trading platform has a trading platform data processing device (“matcher”), which is able to store orders generated by one of the trader data processing devices in an order book, or to fill a matching order that is already recorded in the order book, at least partially, to acknowledge such received orders to the dispatching trader data processing device, and furthermore, to send messages to a plurality of connected trader data processing devices (in the case of a trading system with equally entitled traders, to everybody) in a broadcast mode. The trading platform is in particular characterized in that a unit of the trading data processing device controlling the optional execution or storing of the orders is configured as a dedicated logic circuit.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical system for generating a pattern which changes over time for a confocal microscope comprising a light source arrangement (1, 12a, 12b, 12c) from which light beams travel to an object (7) which reflects the light beams, a beam splitter (3) for allowing passage of the light beams proceeding from the light source arrangement (1, 12a, 12b, 12c) in the direction of the object (7) and for deflecting the light beams reflected by the object (7) in a focal plane in the direction of a detector (8) with a detector pattern for detecting an image of the object (7) and a lens arrangement (4a, 4b) between the beam splitter (3) and the object (7).

Abstract: A device for tomographic scanning objects comprises a source of light for irradiating the object; a first grid arranged in the optical axis of the light beam so that a pattern of the first grid is projected on the object; an optical imaging assembly for imaging the object on a sensor; and a second grid provided in the optical axis of the reflected light beam having a pattern matching the first grid, through said second grid the reflected light beam having the pattern of the first grid being guided so that the sensor senses the light beam reflected by the object with a Moiré pattern resulting from overlying the pattern of the first grid and the pattern of the second grid. The device further comprises a means for moving the first grid and/or the second grid at a frequency causing fluctuations in the intensity of the resulting Moiré pattern.

Abstract: An optical system for a confocal microscope comprising: an illumination pattern (1) irradiating an object (6) with light rays reflected thereby, a beam splitter (2) for passing the light rays from the illumination pattern (1) in the direction of the object (6) and for deflecting the light rays reflected by the object (6) in a focal plane (7) in the direction of a detector (3) for detecting an image of the object (6), and a (4, 5, 8) between the beam splitter (2) and the object (6), at least one lens of the lens assembly (4, 5, 8) being arranged movable for shifting the focal plane (7) at the object (6), is configured such that at least one lens of the lens assembly (4, 5, 8) is an aspherical lens and the movable lens (4) of the lens assembly (4, 5, 8) is located distal from the object (6).