A scanning system and method for scanning for an object within a region, or for
locating a point within a region. Embodiments of the invention include a method
for scanning for an object within a region using a Low Discrepancy Curve (LDC)
scanning scheme. The method may: 1) generate a Low Discrepancy Sequence (LDS) of
points in the region; 2) calculate an LDC in the region based on the LDS of points;
and 3) scan the region along the LDC to determine one or more characteristics of
the object in response to the scan. In calculating the LDC in the region based
on the LDS of points, the method may connect sequential pairs of the LDS with contiguous
orthogonal line segments (each parallel to a respective axis of the region), then
sample the segments, generating points which may be used to generate the LDC, such
as by a curve fit.
