Alignment of tape cartridge accessor

Details Alignment of tape cartridge accessor Alignment of tape cartridge accessor

2011-03-15

2011-03-15

Strege, John B (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Image transformation or preprocessing

Measuring image properties

C901S047000, C700S214000, C700S245000, C369S030310

Reexamination Certificate

active

07907796

ABSTRACT:
A method for aligning a tape cartridge accessor with cartridges in cells of a tape cartridge magazine is provided. IR illumination is applied to an object expected to include a desired physical feature. Specular reflections are received from the illuminated object to create an image of the object. Dynamic image thresholding is applied to the image to select an optimum gray scale level of the image expected to include the desired physical feature. Bounding boxes are used to identify the location of the desired physical feature in the thresholded image.

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