US 12,695,974 B2Granted

Imaging system node lock dependency discovery systems and methods

AssigneeTeledyne FLIR Commercial Systems, Inc.

InventorsYu En Yang, Tzu Yeh Huang, Timothy Yat Tien Chan

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Abstract

Various techniques are provided to generate a list of node names that cause a node in a machine vision camera to be locked. In one example, a method includes receiving a file identifying a plurality of nodes corresponding to features of a device, wherein each node has a plurality of settings and is configured to be in either an unlocked state to permit adjustment of its settings by a user or a locked state to prevent adjustment of its settings by the user; receiving a request by the user that identifies a first one of the nodes in the locked state; parsing at least a portion of the file to identify a second one of the nodes having associated settings which the locked state of the first node is contingent; and presenting those settings of the second node to the user. Additional methods and systems are also provided.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, from a physical device, a file identifying a first node and a second node comprising first settings and second settings for first user-controllable features and second user-controllable features of the device, respectively, wherein each of the nodes is in either an unlocked state to permit adjustment of its settings on the device by a user of the device or a locked state to prevent adjustment of its settings on the device by the user;
receiving a request by the user that identifies the first node in the locked state;
parsing at least a portion of the file to identify the second node and its second settings on which the locked state of the first node is dependent, wherein the parsing comprises traversing dependency relationships between the first node and the second node based on one or more properties of one or more internal nodes, wherein the traversing comprises traversing the one or more internal nodes linked to the first node and the second node to identify one or more settings of one or more user-controllable features of the one or more internal nodes, wherein the one or more settings change the one or more user-controllable features of the one or more internal nodes from a locked state to an unlocked state;
presenting the second settings of the second node to the user to identify a dependency between the locked state of the first node and the second settings of the second node;
receiving a user adjustment of at least one of the second settings of the second node;
transmitting the user adjustment to the physical device, wherein the physical device switches the first node from the locked state to the unlocked state in response to the user adjustment, wherein switching the first node to the unlocked state allows user modification of the first user-controllable features;
and
wherein the first and second user-controllable features comprise first adjustable control operations and second adjustable control operations of the device, respectively.

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A system comprising:

a computer system configured to:
receive, from a physical device, a file identifying first and second nodes with first settings and second settings for first user-controllable features and second user-controllable features of the device, respectively, wherein each of the nodes is in either an unlocked state to permit adjustment of its settings on the device by a user of the device or a locked state to prevent adjustment of its settings on the device by the user;
receive a request by the user that identifies the first node in the locked state;
parse at least a portion of the file to identify the second node and its second settings on which the locked state of the first node is dependent, wherein the parsing comprises traversing dependency relationships between the first node and the second node based on one or more properties of one or more internal nodes, wherein the traversing comprises traversing the one or more internal nodes between linked to the first node and the second node to identify one or more settings of one or more user-controllable features of the one or more internal nodes, wherein the one or more settings change the one or more user-controllable features of the one or more internal nodes from a locked state to an unlocked state;
present the second settings of the second node to the user to identify a dependency between the locked state of the first node and the second settings of the second node;
receive a user adjustment of at least one of the second settings of the second node;
transmit the user adjustment to the physical device, wherein the physical device switches the first node from the locked state to the unlocked state in response to the user adjustment, wherein switching the first node to the unlocked state allows user modification of the first user-controllable features;
and
wherein the first and second user-controllable features comprise first and second adjustable control operations of the device, respectively.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.