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Inspection method and inspection apparatus

  • US 8,781,208 B2
  • Filed: 04/29/2010
  • Issued: 07/15/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of inspecting an object, the object having a plurality of physical features, each of the features having one or more attributes associated therewith, the attributes comprising:

  • geometric properties of the feature;

    spatial location of the feature on the object;

    orenvironmental attributes,the method including the steps of;

    identifying a current primary feature of the object;

    selecting one or more additional features, each of the one or more additional features selected having at least one common attribute with the current primary feature;

    capturing an image of the selected features on an image capture module;

    determining, in an operating system of an inspection apparatus, whether the selected features of the captured image have been manufactured to within a predetermined tolerance; and

    communicating whether the selected features have been manufactured to within a predetermined tolerance,wherein the step of identifying a current primary feature of the object involves selecting;

    a first feature on a parts list stored in a data store;

    a first feature in a current field of view of the image capture module;

    ora feature located proximal the center in a current field of view of the image capture module; and

    wherein selecting one or more additional features involves the steps of;

    identifying all features on the object that have environmental attributes identical to the environmental attributes of the current primary feature;

    determining whether each of the identified features is able to be captured in a current field of view of the image capture module, involving parsing, in an operating system of an inspection apparatus, an ordered list of the identified features, whereby the ordered list is ordered on the basis of each feature'"'"'s proximity to the current primary feature; and

    selecting an identified feature if the identified feature is within the current field of view of the image capture module.

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