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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 06, 1993
William M Silver, Medfield, MA (US);
Samuel Druker, Brookline, MA (US);
Philip Romanik, West Haven, CT (US);
Carroll Arbogast, Needham, MA (US);
Cognex Corporation, Natick, MA (US);
Abstract
A system for interactively generating a computer program for machine vision analysis insures that the program is correct by permitting the operator to make only syntactically correct modifications to the program. The system includes an element for storing the computer program being generated. A further element displays the program to the operator. A positioning element demarks a location of interest within the program. A menu element displays permissible programming modifications for the location of interest. The menu element incorporates in its display of permissible programming modifications statements for machine vision analysis of an object image, e.g., calls to machine vision subroutines and functions. To facilitate specification of input parameters to those subroutines and functions, the imaging element can generate a candidate image of the object upon which the machine vision analysis is to be run. A graphical input element displays over that candidate image a graphical icon that the operator can manipulate to specify the parameters. A textual input element can display an icon, e.g., a dialog box, prompting the operator to designate textually input parameters for the machine vision tool. An update element responds to the operator selection by appropriately modifying the stored program.