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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2002
Applicants:
Andrew Ramsay Knox, Kilbirnie, GB;
Anthony Cyril Lowe, Braishfield, GB;
Inventors:
Andrew Ramsay Knox, Kilbirnie, GB;
Anthony Cyril Lowe, Braishfield, GB;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 19/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An improved orientation system includes a lens pre-distorting an image generated by imaging apparatus such that a non-linearity, the degree of which is dependent on the off-axis distance of an imaged object, is generated so as to increase the strength of a signal indicating said non-linearity.