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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. 23, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yap-Peng Tan, Chandler, AZ (US);
Tinku Acharya, Tempe, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 ;
Abstract
What is disclosed is a method comprising performing an observation on a sensor having a plurality of pixels, for each of the pixels that are unclassified, determining a score according to the observation, if the score for the each pixel satisfies a stopping condition, classifying the each pixel as being one of either defective or functional, and repeating the steps of performing, determining and classifying for any the pixels remaining unclassified after determining the score.