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AssigneeAcushnet Company
InventorsKevin M. Harris, Paul A. Furze
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An automated object inspection system is presented. The inspection system includes an imaging system to produce at least two images of said object having different optical properties and an analyzer coupled to the imaging system to receive the images and to perform a variety of inspection operations on said images. The imaging system may produce images of the object under inspection in the visible range having varying exposure values. A vision engine included in the analyzer may combine said images through an algorithmic process into one image having high light dynamic range. Alternatively, the imaging system may produce images of the object in the visible or non-visible electromagnetic range. The analyzer may perform inspection routines on said images. An imaging system capable of producing digital video is presented, wherein each frame of video produced by said camera is composed of multiple images having different optical properties.
An imaging system comprising at least two image sensors to produce video images of a first golf ball, wherein said image sensors are arranged to produce images of the same first golf ball, and wherein said image sensors produce at least two separate images in the same spectral range of the electromagnetic spectrum from the same perspective using a common light source to provide incident light for each image, said images being produced at different times in succession, wherein each image is of different brightness so that each image shows the same surface of the golf ball, each image having a different light exposure time so that different levels of incident light are captured and each image shows different visible areas and shadowed areas of the surface;
An imaging system comprising at least two image sensors to produce video images of a first golf ball, wherein said image sensors are arranged to produce images of the same first golf ball, and wherein said image sensors produce at least two separate images in the same spectral range of the electromagnetic spectrum from the same perspective using a common light source to provide incident light for each image, said images being produced at different times in succession, wherein each image is of different brightness so that each image shows the same surface of the golf ball, wherein the at least two image sensors are coupled to neutral density filters, and wherein each neutral density filter is light-transparent to a different degree so that different levels of incident light are captured and each image shows different visible areas and shadowed areas of the surface;
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