公开(公告)号：EP0838065A4

公开(公告)日：1999-11-24

申请号：EP96923684

申请日：1996-07-03

申请人： UNIVERSAL INSTRUMENTS CORP

发明人： GORENFLO MICHAEL J ,  LISTER PETER M

IPC分类号： G01B11/00 ,  G06K9/20 ,  G06T1/00 ,  G06K9/00

CPC分类号： G06K9/20

摘要： An apparatus and method is provided for capturing component location information through the use of fiber optic conduits. In various embodiments, an image of a component attached to a translatable and rotatable spindle (302) is captured and transmitted along a fiber optic conduit (305) to a camera (316) coupled to an image processing computer (318). The image processing computer (318) determines component location on the spindle based on the transmitted image and, where necessary, generates component location correction information so that the spindle and attached component can be moved to a determined location. A plurality of fiber optic conduits (305, 308, 311, 314) may be bundled together to provide a single combined image of the components (A1, A2, A3, A4) attached to multiple spindles which can be captured by a single camera (316), wherein the image processing computer (318) segregates the images and determines multiple component location correction information.