Patents by Inventor Philip B. Romanik

Philip B. Romanik 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).

  • Bandwidth reduction of multichannel images for machine vision
    Patent number: 6141033
    Abstract: The invention provides methods and apparatus for reducing the bandwidth of a multichannel image. In one aspect, the methods and apparatus call for acquiring a multichannel training image representing a training scene. Weighting factors for the respective channels are determined based on the contrast at corresponding locations in that multichannel training image. A reduced bandwidth runtime image is generated from the multichannel runtime images as a function of (i) the weighting factors determined from the training image and (ii) a multichannel image representing the runtime scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Cognex Corporation
    Inventors: David J. Michael, Philip B. Romanik