US Patent 7170592 Method of inspecting a sphere without orienting the sphere

Patent 7170592 was granted and assigned to Acushnet (company) on January, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Acushnet (company)

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United States Patent and Trademark Office

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71705920

Date of Patent

January 30, 2007

Patent Application Number

107977980

Date Filed

March 10, 2004

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Sang H Nguyen

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The present invention is directed to a method of inspecting a curved object comprising the steps of acquiring inspection image data of a curved object using a detector, generating adjusted image data by adjusting the inspection image data, and comparing the adjusted image data with digitally generated image data of a predetermined image. In one embodiment, golf balls are inspected using a line scan camera and a line of coplanar and parallel, diffuse light that uniformly illuminates the camera's scan line. A method of digitally filtering brightness in a digital image is also disclosed.

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