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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:
May. 10, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Abdullah Hashim, Leicester, GB;
Assignee:
National Research Development Corporation, London, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; B07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364470 ; 209576 ; 209659 ; 209939 ; 250563 ; 356431 ; 358107 ; 364507 ;
Abstract
Textile articles are inspected for size, defects by forming an image e.g. in a video camera, capturing data representing at least salient features of the image, comparing the data automatically with reference data, and effecting a selection process in accordance with the result of the comparison. Articles e.g. socks, presented as a succession of imperfectly matched items, can be sorted for size e.g. into categories of leg and foot length.