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Method and apparatus for picking and placing a surface mounted device with the aid of machine vision
Assignee: Transpacific IP Ltd
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Filing: 1989-12-19
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Granted: 1992-10-20
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Expires: 2009-12-19
Abstract
Abstract A method for accurately placing a surface mounting device (SMD) with a vacuum nozzle analyzes a video image of the SMD to locate the SMD leads and compute corrections. The positions of the lead centers are processed to determine the translation and rotation of the SMD relative to a desired location. The position of the SMD centroid is transformed from an image-referenced coordinate system to a space-referenced coordinate system. The SMD rotation relative to a desired orientation is derived from the slope of a line drawn through colinear SMD leads.
Inventors
- 👤 Inn-Ming Chen
- 👤 Yeu-Hwa Shyy
- 👤 Jeng-Chang Yeh
- 👤 Yunghsueh Chao
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-08 22:11
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06T; G06T7/00; G06T7/70; H; H05; H05K; H05K13/00; H05K13/08; H05K13/081; H05K13/0813; G06T2207/00; G06T2207/30; G06T2207/30108; G06T2207/30141
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
246 words
A method for placing, in a space coordinate system, a surface mounting device having a plurality of leads at a predetermined position comprising the steps of: attaching the surface mounting device to a fixture; moving the fixture and the surface mounting device into the field of view of a camera; obtaining an image of the surface mounting device in an image coordinate system, the image of the surface mounting device comprising a plurality of lead images each corresponding to one of the leads; identifying the lead images in the image of the surface mounting device; calculating coordinates of points on the contour of each of the lead images; arithmetically the coordinates of points on the contour of each of the lead images weighing the determine coordinates of centroids of each of the lead images; grouping the centroids into a plurality of groups, each of the groups comprising any three of the centroids which are collinear with respect to each other; calculating, by a least square error method, calculations to determine an optimal straight line Y=a+b(X-X) through the three centroids in each of the groups; determining coordinates of the center of the image of the surface mounting device in accordance with the centroids of the lead images; and correcting translation and rotation errors of the surface mounting device in the space coordinate system in accordance with the center of the image of the surface mounting device and the optimal straight lines, respectively in the image coordinate system.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
246 words
A method for placing, in a space coordinate system, a surface mounting device having a plurality of leads at a predetermined position comprising the steps of: attaching the surface mounting device to a fixture; moving the fixture and the surface mounting device into the field of view of a camera; obtaining an image of the surface mounting device in an image coordinate system, the image of the surface mounting device comprising a plurality of lead images each corresponding to one of the leads; identifying the lead images in the image of the surface mounting device; calculating coordinates of points on the contour of each of the lead images; arithmetically the coordinates of points on the contour of each of the lead images weighing the determine coordinates of centroids of each of the lead images; grouping the centroids into a plurality of groups, each of the groups comprising any three of the centroids which are collinear with respect to each other; calculating, by a least square error method, calculations to determine an optimal straight line Y=a+b(X-X) through the three centroids in each of the groups; determining coordinates of the center of the image of the surface mounting device in accordance with the centroids of the lead images; and correcting translation and rotation errors of the surface mounting device in the space coordinate system in accordance with the center of the image of the surface mounting device and the optimal straight lines, respectively in the image coordinate system.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
98 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein the grouping step includes the steps of: depicting the coordinates of the centroids of each of the lead images in a polar coordinate system having a center proximate to the center of the image of the surface mounting device; acquiring the groups in one of a clockwise and counterclockwise sequence about the polar coordinate system; determining a value of collinearity of three successive lead images in the sequence; and grouping the three successive lead images in one of the groups if the value of collinearity is less than a predetermined threshold.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
62 words
A method according to claim 2, wherein the value of collinearity is determined in accordance with the following equation: E=|(X.sub.3 -X.sub.2)-(X.sub.2 -X.sub.1)|+|(Y.sub.3 -Y.sub.2)-(Y.sub.2 -Y .sub.1)| wherein E is the value of collinearity and X 1 , Y 1 , X 2 , Y 2 , X 3 and Y 3 are the coordinates of the three centroids in a rectilinear coordinate system.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
34 words
A method according to claim 1, wherein the calculating step further includes a step of calculating the slope b of each of the optimal straight lines by way of the following formula: ##EQU6## .
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