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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:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Heimann Systems GmbH, Wiesbaden, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/3083 ; G01N 2/304 ; G01N 2/310 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 2/3083 ; G01N 2/304 ; G01N 2/310 ;
Abstract
An image processing method for recognizing a material contained in an article includes the following steps: transilluminating the article with X-rays; generating, by an X-ray detector, signals representing the X-rays passing through the article; applying the signals to a computer system as continuous image data; subdividing the image data into defined zone-wise image strips; briefly storing the image strips in an image data memory; and determining the material from the image strips before a completion of the transilluminating step.