Vehicle Service System Digital Camera Interface
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1. An improved automotive service system having at least one processing system configured with at least one vehicle service software application, the improvement comprising:
- at least one imaging sensor operatively coupled to the at least one processing system via a high-speed communication pathway; and
wherein the at least one processing system is adapted for selective control of an image acquisition rate of said at least one imaging sensor via said high-speed communication pathway.
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Abstract
A machine-vision vehicle wheel alignment system configured with a high-speed communications network and protocol for communicating data between one or more imaging sensors and at least one system processor.
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1. An improved automotive service system having at least one processing system configured with at least one vehicle service software application, the improvement comprising:
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at least one imaging sensor operatively coupled to the at least one processing system via a high-speed communication pathway; and
wherein the at least one processing system is adapted for selective control of an image acquisition rate of said at least one imaging sensor via said high-speed communication pathway. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An improved vehicle service system having a plurality of processing units configured to receive data packets via an Ethernet communications link, the improvement comprising:
a network interface adapted to scale Ethernet packet receive-processing to the number of available processing units in the vehicle service system. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method for image acquisition for use with a machine-vision automotive service system having at least one imaging sensor operatively coupled to a processing system configured with at least one vehicle service software application, the improvement comprising:
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selecting, responsive to a current vehicle service procedure, an image acquisition rate of the at least one imaging sensor; and
communicating image data from the at least one imaging sensor to the processing system at said selected image acquisition rate during said current vehicle service procedure. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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