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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2017
Nike, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
John Matthew Farren, Taichung, TW;
Dragan Jurkovic, Taichung, TW;
Patrick Conall Regan, Taichung, TW;
Howard Fu, Taichung, TW;
Chih-Chi Chang, Douliu, TW;
Kuo-Hung Lee, Douliu, TW;
Chang-Chu Liao, Douliu, TW;
Harsha Prahlad, Cupertino, CA (US);
NIKE, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
Acquisition or pick-up tools that themselves aid in improving the ease with which images of an acquired substrate may be captured, and methods of operating such pick-up tools, are provided. The pick-up tools may include a pick-up surface adapted to interface with a foreign substrate and a light source integrated with the pick-up tool such that light emitted from the light source passes through the pick-up surface to the foreign substrate when the foreign substrate is temporarily coupled with the pick-up surface to create a silhouette of the foreign substrate. A vision system may be adapted for capturing the silhouette of the foreign substrate when the foreign substrate is temporarily coupled with the pick-up surface. The substrate pick-up surface may be formed of one of a transparent, a semi-transparent, or a translucent material such that light may at least partially pass there through.