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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:
Aug. 06, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard I Hartley, Schenectady, NY (US);
Julia A Noble, Schenectady, NY (US);
James C Grande, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
William E Jackson, Dublin, OH (US);
Kenneth B Welles, II, Scotia, NY (US);
Jane S Liu, Latham, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Worthington, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382108 ; 382152 ; 382206 ; 382215 ; 382227 ; 356 30 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method of classifying and sorting by shape crystalline objects such as synthetic diamonds in which an image of the object taken from an angle defined in relation to the object is compared to one or more templates in order to characterize the object.