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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2017
Applicant:
Cognex Corporation, Natick, MA (US);
Inventor:
John McGarry, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cognex Corporation, Natick, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/335 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 5/357 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/3355 (2013.01); H04N 5/335 (2013.01); H04N 5/357 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H04N 7/183 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, performed by a machine vision system, for forming a one dimensional digital representation of a low information content scene, e.g., a scene that is sparsely illuminated by an illumination plane, and the one dimensional digital representation is a projection formed with respect to columns of a rectangular pixel array of the machine vision system.