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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:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kuo-Ching Liu, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
Robotic Vision Systems, Inc., Hauppauge, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 1/100 ;
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for highly efficient imaging of selected object features utilizing, in combination, a 2D imaging subsystem and a 3D imaging subsystem wherein data from the 2D imaging subsystem is used to predetermine areas containing 3D features of interest such that delay attributable to imaging of areas of non-interest for 3D features is minimized.