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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:
Sep. 03, 1985
Filed:
Mar. 05, 1982
Melvin R Clearman, Austin, TX (US);
Clyde H Springen, Austin, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A video data acquisition system includes a vision system having a video camera for taking pictures of articles. The video acquisition system is adapted to acquire, digitize and select signals within a predetermined amplitude range as representations of pixels of the images of the pictures arranged in rows, columns and diagonal lines, and further adapted to provide a total count of pixels in rows, columns and diagonal lines. A hand-held application module for directing the operation of the vision system has teaching capabilities in conjunction with the system for causing the video camera to take repeated pictures of an article within its field of view in various positions to provide identity of the article. The video acquisition system includes means for computing the area and perimeter of the article and for computing the maximum moments and minimum moments, thereby providing an identification of the article and its orientation.
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