Patents by Inventor Brian V. Mirtich
Brian V. Mirtich has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8891852Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for configuring a vision detector, wherein a training image is obtained from a production line operating in continuous motion so as to provide conditions substantially identical to those that will apply during actual manufacturing and inspection of objects. A training image can be obtained without any need for a trigger signal, whether or not the vision detector might use such a signal for inspecting the objects. Further disclosed are systems and methods for testing a vision detector by selecting, storing, and displaying a limited number of images from a production run, where those images correspond to objects likely to represent incorrect decisions.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2004Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Cognex Technology and Investment CorporationInventors: Andrew Eames, Brian V. Mirtich, William M Silver
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Patent number: 8582925Abstract: This invention provides a system and method for employing GUI-based non-numeric slide buttons and bar meters to setup and monitor operating parameters of a vision system. Graphical representations of operating parameters are displayed in a parameter box on the GUI with moving bars that are shaded, patterned or colored so as to provide a relative level between two extremes on a scale of the given operating parameter. Input of operating parameter settings with respect to the scale is made by moving a setting slider along the scale between the extremes. The position of the slider establishes the user-input setting relative to the scale. In an illustrative embodiment, scales, level bars and setting sliders can also be displayed on the image view itself, adjacent to a given image view feature, which is the subject of the scale.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Cognex Technology and Investment CorporationInventors: Brian V. Mirtich, Andrew Eames, Brian S. Phillips, Robert J. Tremblay, II, John F. Keating, Steven Whitman
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Patent number: 8295552Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for setting various operating parameters of a vision detector from production line information that can be supplied by a manufacturing technician who is not skilled in the art of the invention. These operating parameters include shutter time, video gain, idle time, frame count, and locator search range. The production line information includes line speed, field of view size, direction of motion, and object spacing.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2009Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Cognex Technology and Investment CorporationInventors: Brian V. Mirtich, William M. Silver
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Patent number: 8127247Abstract: This invention provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that operates in connection with a machine vision detector or other machine vision system, which provides a highly intuitive and industrial machine-like appearance and layout. The GUI includes a centralized image frame window surrounded by panes having buttons and specific interface components that the user employs in each step of a machine vision system set up and run procedure. One pane allows the user to view and manipulate a recorded filmstrip of image thumbnails taken in a sequence, and provides the filmstrip with specialized highlighting (colors or patterns) that indicate useful information about the underlying images. The programming of logic is performed using a programming window that includes a ladder logic arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2006Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Cognex CorporationInventors: Robert J. Tremblay, Brian S. Philips, John F. Keating, Andrew Eames, Steven Whitman, Brian V. Mirtich, Carroll McNeil Arbogast, Jr.
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Publication number: 20100318936Abstract: This invention provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that operates in connection with a machine vision detector or other machine vision system, which provides a highly intuitive and industrial machine-like appearance and layout. The GUI includes a centralized image frame window surrounded by panes having buttons and specific interface components that the user employs in each step of a machine vision system set up and run procedure. One pane allows the user to view and manipulate a recorded filmstrip of image thumbnails taken in a sequence, and provides the filmstrip with specialized highlighting (colors or patterns) that indicate useful information about the underlying images. The programming of logic is performed using a programming window that includes a ladder logic arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2010Publication date: December 16, 2010Applicant: COGNEX CORPORATIONInventors: Robert J. Tremblay, Brian S. Phillips, John F. Keating, Andrew Eames, Steven Whitman, Brian V. Mirtich, Carroll McNeill Arbogast, JR.
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Publication number: 20100241981Abstract: This invention provides a system and method for employing GUI-based non-numeric slide buttons and bar meters to setup and monitor operating parameters of a vision system (the term “vision system” as used herein including the above-described vision detector). Such parameters can include, but are not limited to the threshold at which a feature is activated in viewing an image. Operating parameters also include the underlying range of contrast values and levels of brightness intensities (or by input inversion, the level of darkness) recognized and acted upon by the vision system. Graphical representations of operating parameters are displayed in a parameter box on the GUI with moving bars that are shaded, patterned or colored so as to provide a relative level between two extremes on a scale of the given operating parameter. The endpoints of the scale can be established by analyzing the relevant extremes on a subject image view.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Inventors: Brian V. Mirtich, Andrew Eames, Brian S. Phillips, Robert J. Tremblay, II, John F. Keating, Steven Whitman
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Patent number: 7720315Abstract: This invention provides a system and method for employing GUI-based non-numeric slide buttons and bar meters to setup and monitor operating parameters of a vision system (the term “vision system” as used herein including the above-described vision detector). Such parameters can include, but are not limited to the threshold at which a feature is activated in viewing an image. Operating parameters also include the under-lying range of contrast values and levels of brightness intensities (or by input inversion, the level of darkness) recognized and acted upon by the vision system. Graphical representations of operating parameters are displayed in a parameter box on the GUI with moving bars that are shaded, patterned or colored so as to provide a relative level between two extremes on a scale of the given operating parameter. The endpoints of the scale can be established by analyzing the relevant extremes on a subject image view.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2004Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Cognex Technology and Investment CorporationInventors: Brian V. Mirtich, Andrew Eames, Brian S. Phillips, Robert J. Tremblay, II, John F. Keating, Steven Whitman
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Patent number: 7636449Abstract: This invention provides a system and method for automating the setup of Locators and Detectors within an image view of an object on the HMI of a vision detector by determining detectable edges and best fitting the Locators and Detectors to a location on the object image view following the establishment of an user selected operating point on the image view, such as by clicking a GUI cursor. In this manner, the initial placement and sizing of the graphical elements for Locator and Detector ROIs are relatively optimized without excessive adjustment by the user. Locators can be selected for direction, including machine or line-movement direction, cross direction or angled direction transverse to cross direction and movement direction. Detectors can be selected based upon particular analysis tools, including brightness tools, contrast tools and trained templates.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2004Date of Patent: December 22, 2009Assignee: Cognex Technology and Investment CorporationInventors: Brian V. Mirtich, Andrew Eames, Brian S. Phillips, Robert J. Tremblay, II, John F. Keating, Steven Whitman
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Publication number: 20090273668Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for setting various operating parameters of a vision detector from production line information that can be supplied by a manufacturing technician who is not skilled in the art of the invention. These operating parameters include shutter time, video gain, idle time, frame count, and locator search range. The production line information includes line speed, field of view size, direction of motion, and object spacing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2009Publication date: November 5, 2009Applicant: COGNEX CORPORATIONInventors: Brian V. Mirtich, William M. Silver
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Patent number: 7545949Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for setting various operating parameters of a vision detector from production line information that can be supplied by a manufacturing technician who is not skilled in the art of the invention. These operating parameters include shutter time, video gain, idle time, frame count, and locator search range. The production line information includes line speed, field of view size, direction of motion, and object spacing.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2004Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Cognex Technology and Investment CorporationInventors: Brian V. Mirtich, William M. Silver
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Patent number: RE44353Abstract: This invention provides a system and method for automating the setup of Locators and Detectors within an image view of an object on the HMI of a vision detector by determining detectable edges and best fitting the Locators and Detectors to a location on the object image view following the establishment of an user selected operating point on the image view, such as by clicking a GUI cursor. In this manner, the initial placement and sizing of the graphical elements for Locator and Detector ROIs are relatively optimized without excessive adjustment by the user. Locators can be selected for direction, including machine or line-movement direction, cross direction or angled direction transverse to cross direction and movement direction. Detectors can be selected based upon particular analysis tools, including brightness tools, contrast tools and trained templates.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Cognex Technology and Investment CorporationInventors: Brian V. Mirtich, Andrew Eames, Brian S. Phillips, Robert J. Tremblay, II, John F. Keating, Steven Whitman