Web inspection system and method therefor
First Claim
1. An inspection system for web materials that includes electronic means responsive to means scanning the web for detecting a plurality of different nonuniform appearance features of the web, said electronic means comprising:
- means for electrically discriminating said appearance features as to a predefined class to identify the significant electrical signal components thereof;
means for electrically dividing the web into frames;
means for counting the number of occurrences of said significant signal components over a series of scans within each of said frames;
means for comparing each count of the number of occurrences of said significant signal components within each frame with predetermined values to electrically define nonuniform appearance features according to frame; and
means for combining said electrically defined nonuniform features to recognize the occurrence of a visual defect class as it occurs within each said scanned frame.
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Abstract
An inspection system for web materials, including electronic means responsive to means scanning the web for detecting a plurality of nonuniform appearance features of the web; means for discriminating these appearance features as to class to identify the significant electrical signal components thereof; means for electrically dividing the web into overlapping areas; means for counting the number of occurrences of the significant signal components over a series of scans within each of the overlapping areas; means for comparing each count with predetermined values to electrically define nonuniform appearance features according to area; and means for combining these nonuniform appearance features to recognize the occurrence of a visual defect class as it occurs within each overlapping area.
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1. An inspection system for web materials that includes electronic means responsive to means scanning the web for detecting a plurality of different nonuniform appearance features of the web, said electronic means comprising:
- means for electrically discriminating said appearance features as to a predefined class to identify the significant electrical signal components thereof;
means for electrically dividing the web into frames;
means for counting the number of occurrences of said significant signal components over a series of scans within each of said frames;
means for comparing each count of the number of occurrences of said significant signal components within each frame with predetermined values to electrically define nonuniform appearance features according to frame; and
means for combining said electrically defined nonuniform features to recognize the occurrence of a visual defect class as it occurs within each said scanned frame.
- means for electrically discriminating said appearance features as to a predefined class to identify the significant electrical signal components thereof;
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2. In an inspection system for web materials that includes electronic means responsive to means scanning the web for detecting a preselected plurality of different nonuniform appearance features of the web to form an extracted single-scan feature set, the improvement comprising:
- circuit means for dividing the web into separate but overlapping frames aligned in the web motion direction and transverse thereto;
circuit means to accumulate in separate sums the respective values of the extracted single-scan features of said preselected plurality occurring in each said overlapping frame;
means for discriminating said separate sums;
means for composing respective binary lane feature status words from said discriminated sums, wherein each status word has a bit position assignment corresponding to the lane in which a significant appearance feature occurs;
means for combining according to lane the bits of said lane feature status words into a predetermined logic statement, said logic statement defining a distinctive defect class; and
means for determining the presence of said defect class according to the resultant truth value of said logic statement pertaining to each said frame.
- circuit means for dividing the web into separate but overlapping frames aligned in the web motion direction and transverse thereto;
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3. In a method of inspecting a web that includes electro-optically scanning the web and generating electrical output signals representative of different nonuniform appearance features of the web and discriminating said output signals to form signals representing extracted single-scan features, the improvement comprising:
- electrically dividing the web into separate overlapping frames;
accumulating in separate sums the respective values of said extracted single-scan features in each said overlapping frame;
discriminating said separate sums to form binary lane feature status words;
combining the bits of said lane feature status words into a predetermined logic statement, said logic statement defining a distinctive defect class; and
determining the presence of said defect class according to the resultant truth value of said logic statement pertaining to each said frame.
- electrically dividing the web into separate overlapping frames;
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