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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:
Jul. 11, 1989
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382-8 ; 382 22 ; 358101 ; 364490 ;
Abstract
Image of an electronic part is subdivided into a plurality of segments and is taken in a picture area of a video camera, and picture area is shifted in a predetermined direction along a circumference portion or boundary; a characteristic portion positioned on an end portion of the picture area is also included in the beginning part of a successive picture area, and then the positions and shapes of the respective characteristic portions in the successive picture area are detected on the basis of the image data of characterisitc portion at the end portion of the previous picture area.