METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSPECTING A PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD

Patent №

US 5,260,779

Granted

1993-11-09

Filed 1992

Owner

CONTROL AUTOMATION, INC., A CORP. OF DE

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

07839831

A method and apparatus for inspecting articles such as printed circuit boards doubles the transport rate for the article under inspection, and modifies the manner in which acquired video images are processed to account for this change in rate. Primarily, this involves two modifications to existing video processing systems including a change in synchronization for obtaining the frames which are to be processed, and a selective exposure (i.e., shuttering) of the video cameras to the images which are to be acquired in order to avoid the acquisition of plural images in a single frame. Once acquired, the video images are stored and processed making use of techniques which substantially correspond to those previously employed by existing inspection devices of this general type.

VisionG01N 21/956G01R 31/309G01N 2021/8887G01N 2021/95638

AI classification

Vision1.00
Speech0.06
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
AI hardware0.00
Planning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

CONTROL AUTOMATION, INC., A CORP. OF DE

assignment · 60940634

Assignors

WASSERMAN, HAROLD

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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