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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2014
Intelligrated Headquarters, Llc, Mason, OH (US);
Mark Kenneth Vegh, Frederick, MD (US);
Other;
Abstract
A detection system has a first laser that directs a first laser trace laterally across a surface of a conveyor from an acute angle. A second laser directs a second laser trace laterally across the surface of the conveyor, in spaced apart alignment with the first laser trace, from an acute angle. A camera images from above a field of view that encompasses at least a portion of the first and second laser traces. An image processing system detects a presence or absence of portions of the first and second laser traces, and determines a feature of one of the conveyor and an article inducted onto the conveyor based upon the detecting of the presence or absence.