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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7474329 | Apparatus and method to evaluate an illuminated panel An apparatus to evaluate an illuminated panel comprises a camera to acquire a real-time digital color image of the illuminated panel and a stored digital color image of a standard illuminated panel. A monitor is provided to alternately display the real-time image an... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7421109 | Pattern inspection apparatus A pattern inspecting method, comprising preparing a sample having a first and a second inspection regions and an imaging device having a plurality of pixels, scanning the first inspection region to a first direction using the imaging device to obtain a first measure... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415149 | Pattern inspection apparatus A pattern inspection apparatus uses a die-to-database comparison method which compares detected pattern data obtained from an optical image of a pattern of a plate to be inspected with first reference pattern data obtained from designed pattern data in combination w... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7386394 | Navigation and inspection system A method of detecting a changed condition within a geographical space from a moving vehicle. Images of that geographic space are memorialized in conjunction with GPS coordinates together with its GPS coordinates. The same geographic space is traversed from the movin... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7349567 | Method and apparatus for determining angular pose of an object The present invention is operative to determine the angular pose of an assumed object. A series of projection sums are calculated from a sample image of the known object where the known object has an assumed pose. The projection sums are calculated for a range of an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7327871 | Defect inspecting method, defect inspecting apparatus and inspection machine According to a defect inspecting method implemented in a semiconductor circuit inspection machine, a difference in a gray-scale level of a pattern edge image is corrected. A procedure of determining a magnitude of correction is modified in efforts to improve the sen... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7239735 | Pattern inspection method and pattern inspection device In this pattern inspection device, the optical scanning section scans the inspected pattern using a laser beam. A photoelectric image processing section generates an image of the inspected pattern. A reference image generation section calculates the gray level of ea... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7175408 | Mold monitoring apparatus for injection molding machine A mold monitoring apparatus for an injection molding machine captures an image of a cavity portion of an opened mold, and determines the state of the cavity portion by means of image processing. The apparatus includes a light emitting unit, an image capturing unit, ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167197 | Apparatus and method to evaluate an illuminated panel An apparatus to evaluate an illuminated panel comprises a camera to acquire a real-time digital color image of the illuminated panel and a stored digital color image of a standard illuminated panel. A monitor is provided to alternately display the real-time image an... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7095755 | Data transfer apparatus and its control method In data transfer in isochronous mode using an IEEE1394 serial bus, the data transfer rate is guaranteed, but data transfer is disabled if the number of channels is insufficient. An already assigned channel is released by lowering the data transfer rate currently usi... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7046837 | System and method for locating irregular edges in image data A system for processing image data, such as an image of a die cut from a silicon wafer, is provided. The system includes an irregular edge detection system, which can locate edge data of a feature of the image data, such as the edge of a probe mark in a bond pad. A ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7027042 | Display apparatus and error detection method thereof A display apparatus includes a first video signal processing part which processes a video signal output from a video card provided in a computer main body and displays a picture thereof, a picture data storing part, and an error detecting part which captures the vid... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6967973 | Data transfer apparatus and its control method In data transfer in isochronous mode using an IEEE1394 serial bus, the data transfer rate is guaranteed, but data transfer is disabled if the number of channels is insufficient. An already assigned channel is released by lowering the data transfer rate currently usi... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6943348 | System for detecting injection holding material A system is provided for detecting a substantially transparent injection molding material. The injection molding material contains a fluorescent colorant, which is invisible when not exposed to ultraviolet light, but becomes visible when exposed to ultraviolet light... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6845178 | Automatic separation of subject pixels using segmentation based on multiple planes of measurement data A method and apparatus for characterizing pixels in an image of an object surface by providing at least two images of the surface wherein each pixel has a unique location common to all of the images; comparing each pixel value at each location to an identification m... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6766058 | Pattern recognition using multiple templates The present invention solves the problem of repeated operator intervention in a vision system by providing multiple templates which may be used to locate an object within an image. ... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6674889 | Pattern inspection method and pattern inspection apparatus The present invention provides a pattern inspection apparatus whereby, even if a large number of defects are detected during inspection it is possible to continue inspection without interruption of the inspecting operation and the apparatus comprising opt... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6639624 | Machine vision methods for inspection of leaded components A machine vision method for locating a leaded electronic device, such as integrated circuit chips, includes searching the image with a template depicting only a portion--e.g., one or two "side" edges--of each of one or more of the leads expected on the de... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6477265 | System to position defect location on production wafers A system and method for detecting defects in integrated circuit wafers related to photolithographic processing of the wafers. The system has an image processor, or image computer, and an image memory, which has image data for production wafer types stored... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6456318 | Defect inspection apparatus and method by comparing two pairs of areas adjacent to one another A Time Delayed Integrator (TDI) sensor obtains images of a plurality of areas with the same pattern of an object of inspection such as a semiconductor wafer, and the obtained images are stored in an image storage part. The plurality of areas are designate... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6416218 | Large area array single exposure digital mammography A unique digital imaging device includes the digital imager, a mammography machine including the digital imager, a method for processing the digital image obtained by the digital imager, a local area network (LAN) comprising a number of mammography machin... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6414711 | Apparatus for correcting movement path of a robot and a method therefor A tool mounted on the wrist end of a robot is placed in a predetermined photographing position, and the front and side faces of the tool are photographed by cameras to obtain three-dimensional shape data of the tool. The extent of deformation of the tool ... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6356300 | Automatic visual inspection apparatus automatic visual inspection method and recording medium having recorded an automatic visual inspection program An image differential unit differentiates an inspection image and a reference image on an object to be inspected. An image division unit divides an image into a predetermined number of divisions. Pixel precision position alignment unit overlays the inspec... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6097427 | Method of and apparatus for detecting defects in a process for making sealed sterile packages Automated packaging of surgical needle-suture assemblies includes a framing operation in which adjacent sheets of polymer coated aluminum foils are conveyed through a sequence of steps in an apparatus which produces frames containing plastic packets of ne... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6038336 | PCB testing circuit for an automatic inserting apparatus and a testing method therefor A PCB testing circuit for an automatic inserting apparatus and method thereof can minimize an inferior rate of the PCB. The circuit includes a scanner for converting an image signal of a reference PCB into image data, an image detecting section in an o-li... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6031567 | Method and apparatus for video lumber grading A lumber video grading apparatus includes a vision system, processors, a grading station having visual displays, a storage and retrieval device, an identification device, and a timing system. The vision system may include cameras mounted proximate to a lu... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5969753 | Method and system for detecting errors in a sample image A method and system are described for use at a machine vision station to correctly identify errors within a sample image of an object by means of a probability image where a value of each pixel of the probability image is a probability. The probability im... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5926558 | Method and apparatus for monitoring and inspecting rotary knives A method of monitoring and inspecting one or more operational characteristics of a knife includes providing at least one image producer having a field of view that substantially frames the knife, using the at least one image producer to form a first serie... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5825409 | Flexible disk mode observer System and method for determining displacement or alteration of flexible media under different operating conditions. The system includes a reference pattern which is projected onto the surface of the flexible media. The modes of displacement can then be v... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5781657 | Apparatus for inspecting pattern of photomask and method therefor Graphic data for forming a light-shielding pattern and graphic data for forming a semitransparent pattern are stored in first and second memories, respectively. A synthesis circuit converts the graphic data stored in the first and second memories into bit... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5774575 | Inspection apparatus, and exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method using the inspection apparatus An inspection apparatus and method includes an illuminator for projecting a light beam onto a substrate having a predetermined pattern formed thereon and a sensor for sensing light from the substrate and photoelectrically converting the light to an electr... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5733592 | Method for cleaning and sorting bulk material For cleaning foodstuffs in the form of a bulk material, such as cereal grains, rice grains, soybeans, sunflower seeds, coffee beans, and the like, there is provided an optical sorting device (24, 24a, 24a') subsequent to a precleaning system (6), which en... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5721587 | Method and apparatus for inspecting product processed by turret punch press machine In a method of inspecting a product processed by a turret punch press machine, an image sensing apparatus (video camera) (11) is removably fitted in a punch mount hole (5) of an upper turret disk (1) of the turret punch press machine; a product (W) proces... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5694479 | Process for measuring the optical quality of a glass product For evaluating the optical quality of a glass product utilizing a projection technique, a camera and a computer, the image observed is compared with a reference image reconstructed by means of a convolution window which is displaced over the entire projec... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5657003 | Structure movement monitoring and emergency alarm system A structure movement monitoring and emergency alarm system is disclosed utilizing a convention surveyor's laser transit. The transit is leveled and positioned to "shoot" across a structure that requires emergency monitoring, such as a building wall. The v... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5646681 | Electronic parts data recorder and a mounter employing the recorder The present invention includes a parts data recorder and a mounter which can get the parts data of the electronic parts automatically by processing the picture information which is obtained by the camera for recording the electronic parts. The chip (C) wh... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5640200 | Golden template comparison using efficient image registration Golden Template Comparison (GTC) is a method that can be applied to flaw and defect detection in images of 2-dimensional scenes. When a test image is compared to a golden template image, the images must be registered, and then subtracted. The resulting di... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5636031 | Method and assembly for measuring an article's dimensions The object of the invention is to provide a solution to improve the accuracy of surface and/or profile measurements without any time-consuming manipulations for placing and orienting the object on a measurement table. In addition, this assembly aims at ov... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5625703 | Method and apparatus for detecting defective printed matter printing press According to a method and apparatus for detecting a defective printed matter in a printing press, each pixel data of a printed matter serving as a reference is stored as reference image data. Each pixel data of a printed matter serving as a test object is... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5608454 | Eyewire inspection station An eyewinder system 10 has stations 100-108 for straightening, bending, measuring and transporting a wire 11 to form an eyewire 109. A controller 120 controls each station. Using information from tension and length measuring stations 104, 105, the control... | 03/04/1997 |
