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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2019
Applicant:
Cognex Corporation, Natick, MA (US);
Inventor:
Glenn Spitz, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
COGNEX CORPORATION, Natick, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/1413 (2013.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30204 (2013.01);
Abstract
Evaluating a symbol on an object can include acquiring a first image of the object, including the symbol. A second image can be derived from the first image based upon determining a saturation threshold for the second image and possibly scaling of pixel values to a reduced bit-depth for the second image.