Abstract: An inspection system is provided for a pre-filled blow-fill-seal (BFS) product. The BFS product comprises a neck that extends along a longitudinal direction and has a coupling portion that protrudes laterally outward with respect to adjacent portions of the neck. The inspection system comprises a controller and a first inspection station, which includes illumination and detection assemblies. Interrogating light from one or more light sources of the illumination assembly is directed at a perimeter of the coupling portion of the neck. The detection assembly has an input optical axis that extends along the longitudinal direction and comprises an imaging device to detect light emitted from the neck. The controller is configured to determine compliance of the BFS product with respect to predetermined criteria based at least in part on the light detected by the imaging device.

Abstract: A computer program product for creating a soft edge in digital images comprises a computer readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon for performing the steps of independently receiving a transition width that indicates the width of the soft edge from a computer interface; independently receiving a desired position of a hard-edged boundary from the computer interface; receiving a function of the soft edge which uniquely corresponds a pixel value to a scaled pixel location in the digital image from the computer interface; and calculating an absolute profile of the soft edge, which uniquely corresponds a pixel value to a pixel location in the digital image, from the received transition width, position of the hard-edged boundary and function.