A three-dimensional (3-D) shape measurement method using partial coding structured light is proposed. This method combines the conventional phase unwrapping technique with partial coding technique, which not only effectively reduces the number of projected and captured images but also enhances the reliability of phase unwrapping. First, several adjacent stripes are integrated by partial coding technique to reduce the density of stripes, and then a conventional phase unwrapping algorithm is applied to obtain the absolute phase of the entire image with integrated stripes. Experimental results show that this method can greatly reduce the number of images which are needed for reconstruction, and it has a good accuracy and reliability.(MN201109)资助课题