Locating curvilinear objects using feathered fiducials

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PATENT NO 5500906
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08181328

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A method and apparatus for locating curvilinear objects of variable scale in digitized images using feathered fiducials. The leathered fiducials are constructed by: defining a range of tolerated object size scale variations; generating an enlarged submodel within the range of tolerated scale variations and assigning background pixel values exterior to the enlarged submodel; generating a reduced size submodel within the range of tolerated scale variations and assigning foreground pixel values to the reduced size submodel; disposing the reduced size submodel within and tangent to the enlarged submodel at the application point; uniformly changing grey scale pixel values in a graduated manner from foreground to background between the reduced size submodel and the enlarged one. The curvilinear objects are then located by conducting searches using the constructed fiducials.

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COGNEX CORPORATIONONE VISION DRIVE NATICK MA 01760-2059

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Barber, Frederic Beverly, MA 1 60
Picard, Len L Wilmington, MA 5 231

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