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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2012
Christopher Van DE Vrande, Kingston, CA;
Guillaume Carrier, Belleville, CA;
Rajesh Kumar Singh, Deerfield, OH (US);
Christopher Van De Vrande, Kingston, CA;
Guillaume Carrier, Belleville, CA;
Rajesh Kumar Singh, Deerfield, OH (US);
The Procter and Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for counting and processing pliable objects are disclosed. A vision system may capture an inspection image of a plurality of pliable objects. The inspection image may be partitioned into a plurality of windows traversing the inspection image. For each individual window of the plurality of windows, a blob extraction process is performed to determine a plurality of blobs corresponding to regions within the inspection image having substantially the second luminance value range such that the plurality of blobs correspond to the plurality of pliable objects. The blobs are counted for each window to determine a total number of pliable objects in the plurality of pliable objects.