Machine vision methods and articles of manufacture for ball grid array

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6442291
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09224161

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A method of inspecting an image to locate a ball grid array surface-mounted device includes the steps of inspecting the image to find its surface features and to determine their locations (referred to herein as their 'observed' locations); comparing expected locations of those features with the observed locations to identify missing surface features; reinspecting the image in the vicinity of apparently missing surface features to verify if the feature is really missing or to find those features and to determine their 'observed' locations; and determining, from the observed locations of the surface features, the position and/or angle of the ball grid array surface-mounted device. The invention can be used to determine the position and/or angle of ball grid array surface-mounted devices with surface features in any of many array configurations, e.g., a regular lattice, a checker board lattice, a reverse checker board lattice, a regular lattice with a holes., and a custom lattice.

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COGNEX CORPORATIONONE VISION DRIVE NATICK MA 01760-2059

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Whitman, Steven M Danville, NH 7 156

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