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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2008
Brandon Watt, Hartland, MI (US);
AL Boehnlein, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Tye Newman, Howell, MI (US);
Paul J. Eckhoff, Fenton, MO (US);
Jeffrey J. Miller, Northville, MI (US);
Jeff Schober, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Brandon Watt, Hartland, MI (US);
Al Boehnlein, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Tye Newman, Howell, MI (US);
Paul J. Eckhoff, Fenton, MO (US);
Jeffrey J. Miller, Northville, MI (US);
Jeff Schober, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Perceptron, Inc., Plymouth, MI (US);
Abstract
A remote inspection apparatus has an active display unit receiving image data in digital form and graphically rendering the image data on an active display. A communication medium connects devices to the active display unit, such as an imager head capturing the image data. A computer readable medium records one or more instances of software for operating the one or more devices. A computer processor located in the active display unit that operates a boot loader program to detects and sequentially interrogate the devices by different protocols in order to determine appropriate software to load and operate the devices.