Method of and apparatus for increasing the processing speed in the scanning inspection of circuit boards and other objects
CA 2015162 C · Owner: Bishop, Robert · Inventors: Bishop, Robert
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To reduce the large number of pixels resulting from camera scanning of objects in which defects features or, differences are to be detected and thus enhance process-, ing speed, larger pixels are generated composed of groups of the smaller pixels, but with the smaller pixel information obtained from scanning conveyed by neighborhood majority binary value monitoring to the larger pixels such that increased data rate is effected through processing the larger pixels without, however loss of defect, feature or difference information contained in the small pixels.
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- Filed April 23, 1990 and granted July 31, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 23, 2010.
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