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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 1979
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1977
William E Wolf, Newark, DE (US);
E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
An inspection system for web materials, including electronic means responsive to means scanning the web for detecting a plurality of nonuniform appearance features of the web; means for discriminating these appearance features as to class to identify the significant electrical signal components thereof; means for electrically dividing the web into overlapping areas; means for counting the number of occurrences of the significant signal components over a series of scans within each of the overlapping areas; means for comparing each count with predetermined values to electrically define nonuniform appearance features according to area; and means for combining these nonuniform appearance features to recognize the occurrence of a visual defect class as it occurs within each overlapping area.