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US 11,310,467 B2Granted
Object inspection system and method for inspecting an object
AssigneeInovision Software Solutions, Inc.
InventorsJacob Nathaniel Allen, Zhipeng Liang, Brandon David See, Frank Damacio Luna
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Abstract
An object inspection system and a method for detecting defects which utilizes a plurality of cameras and lights to capture images of a portion of an object and which uses the captured images to determine the presence of a defect upon a surface, such as surface, of the object and which may communicated the location of the identified defect to an automated defect repair assembly.
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An object inspection system comprising:
- at least one light which has a fixed position;
- at least one camera which is in communication with the at least one light and which has a second fixed position;
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- a processing assembly which detects the location of the object, which selectively activates the light, which captures an image of at least a portion of the object from the at least one camera as the object is moving, and which utilizes the captured image to detect the presence of a defect upon the surface of the object, the processing assembly including an archival server, an image capture server, an image processing server, and a tracking server, wherein the archival server is effective to store the image of at least the portion of the object, the image capture server receives the image of at least the portion of the object and is in communication with the archival server, the image processing server is coupled to the image capture server and processes the received image of at least the portion of the object effective to identity the defect upon the surface of the object, and the tracking server detects the location of the object and which further includes a trigger table which is effective to the at least one light and the at least one camera to be respectively activated in order to allow the at least one camera to acquire the image, wherein the trigger table provides an activation sequence for the at least one light and the at least one camera associated to a unique shape or spatial geometry of the object.
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A method for detecting the presence of a defect upon the surface of an object comprising the steps of acquiring an image of at least a portion of the object as the object is moving;
- and using the acquired image to determine the presence of a defect upon the surface of the object using a processing assembly, wherein the processing assembly includes an archival server, an image capture server, an image processing server, and a tracking server, wherein the archival server stores the image of at least the portion of the object, the image capture server receives the image of at least the portion of the object and is in communication with the archival server, the image processing server is coupled to the image capture server and processes the received image of at least the portion of the object effective to identity the defect upon the surface of the object, and the tracking server detects the location of the object and which further includes a trigger table which is effective to at least one light and at least one camera to be respectively activated in order to allow the at least one camera to acquire the image, wherein the trigger table provides an activation sequence for the at least one light and the at least one camera associated to a unique shape or spatial geometry of the object.
A method for detecting and correcting a defect upon the surface of an object comprising the steps of:
- acquiring at least one image of an object;
- using the acquired at least one image of said object to determine the location of a defect upon the surface of said object using a processing assembly, wherein the processing assembly includes an archival server, an image capture server, an image processing server, and a tracking server, wherein the archival server stores the image of at least the portion of the object, the image capture server receives the image of at least the portion of the object and is in communication with the archival server, the image processing server is coupled to the image capture server and processes the received image of at least the portion of the object effective to identity the defect upon the surface of the object, and the tracking server detects the location of the object and which further includes a trigger table which is effective to at least one light and at least one camera to be respectively activated in order to allow the at least one camera to acquire the image, wherein the trigger table provides an activation sequence for the at least one light and the at least one camera associated to a unique shape or spatial geometry of the object;
- communicating the presence of said identified defect to automated defect correction assembly;
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- correcting said defect by use of said automated defect correction assembly.
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