Virtual silk screen for printed circuit boards
AssigneeARRIS Enterprises LLC
InventorsHumberto Corral, Carlos Gonzalez Inda, Oswaldo Enrique Linares Rivas, Luis Lopez Moreno, Julio Cesar Ayala Vera, Sergio Antonio Delon Canseco
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Abstract
Methods and devices that identify a silkscreen data file associated with a physical printed circuit board and use an image of the physical printed circuit board to display a virtual silkscreen over the image of the physical printed circuit board.
Claims15
A device, comprising:
- a sensor device configured to capture data from a physical printed circuit board (PCB);
- a processor;
- and
- memory storing at least an executable program, which causes the processor to:
- identify the physical PCB from the captured PCB data;
- obtain a silkscreen data file associated with the identified PCB;
- browse the PCB data to identify one or more reference points on the physical PCB;
- receive a user selection of at least one of the one or more reference points;
- and
- overlay a virtual silkscreen over an image of the physical PCB based on the silkscreen data file and the user selected reference points;
- and
- a display configured to display the image of the physical PCB with the overlaid virtual silkscreen.
A nontransitory computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions, which causes a processor to execute operations comprising:
- identifying a physical printed circuit board (PCB) from PCB data captured by a sensor;
- obtaining a silkscreen data file associated with the identified PCB;
- browsing the PCB data to identify one or more reference points on the physical PCB;
- receiving a user selection of at least one of the one or more reference points;
- overlaying a virtual silkscreen over an image of the physical PCB based on the silkscreen data file and the user selected reference points;
- and
- outputting the image of the physical PCB with the overlaid virtual silkscreen to a display.
A method implemented on an electronic device having at least a sensor, a display, and a processor, the method comprising:
- capturing, by the sensor, data from a physical printed circuit board (PCB);
- identify, by the processor, the physical PCB from the captured PCB data;
- obtain, by the processor, a silkscreen data file associated with the identified PCB;
- browsing, by the processor, the PCB data to identify one or more reference points on the physical PCB;
- receiving, by the processor, a user selection of at least one of the one or more reference points;
- and
- overlaying, by the processor, a virtual silkscreen over an image of the physical PCB based on the silkscreen data file and the user selected reference points;
- and
- outputting, by the display, the image of the physical PCB with the overlaid virtual silkscreen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.