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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:
Jun. 13, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Nigel John Foster, Newton, MA (US);
Jane Alice Loizeaux, Lowell, MA (US);
Assignee:
Cognex Corporation, Natick, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382141 ; 382206 ; 382286 ;
Abstract
The invention provides a two-phase method for identifying sets of collinear points in data points, e.g., derived from an image. During a first phase, the 'angle-finding' phase, the angular orientation of the lines defined by the sets of points is estimated. During a second phase, the 'line-finding' phase, sets of collinear points aligned at that angle are identified. The invention has application, for example, in finding parallel and perpendicular point sets in an image.