Image detection of inner wall surface of holes in metal sheets through polarization using a 3D TV monitor

We propose an effective technique for optically detecting images of the inner hole-surface of a hole (hereafter, referred to as the hole-surface) using the polarization property of a 3D television (TV) monitor. The polarized light emitted by the TV monitor illuminates the hole-surfaces present in the test target placed on the screen of the monitor. When the polarizer placed in front of a camera lens is adjusted such that the camera captures a dark image for the transmitted light, only the highlighted hole-surfaces are visible in the captured image.