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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:
Dec. 20, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1993
Casey S Shaar, Portland, OR (US);
Paul T Schnackenberg, Beaverton, OR (US);
Photon Kinetics, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
A method of aligning first and second substantially parallel rod-form elements, such as optical fibers, comprises placing the first element at a position at which it is approximately aligned with the second element and is in the fields of view of two imaging systems that have respective axes that are oblique to each other and to the central axes of the two rod-form elements, and digitizing at least a part of the image of each field of view. The digital data is analyzed to determine location of the first element in each field of view, and relative displacement of the first and second elements is brought about accordingly.