Apparatus and method for detecting a feature of a running...

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2007-04-10

2007-04-10

Allen, Stephone B. (Department: 2878)

Radiant energy

Photocells; circuits and apparatus

With circuit for evaluating a web, strand, strip, or sheet

C250S559440, C356S429000

Reexamination Certificate

active

11196956

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for detecting a substantially longitudinally extending feature of a running material web, especially the side edge of the web or an applied marker line, comprises a plurality of individually addressable light sources (22-1, to,22-n) for illuminating, in one of multiple different lighting configurations, a section of the material web (10) containing the feature (12) to be detected; a spatially resolving detection unit (24) for recording the light emitted by the illuminated section as an optical response and for transmitting to an analysis unit (30) a data signal corresponding to the recorded light; an analysis unit (30) for determining, from the transmitted data signal, one or more characteristic parameters of the feature (12) to be detected; and a selection unit (32) for automatically selecting an optimal lighting configuration, which unit is arranged and adapted to address the light sources (22-1, to,22-n) in different lighting configurations, to rate according to a pre-selected criterion the characteristic parameters determined in each case for the feature (12) to be detected, and on the basis of this rating, to select the optimal lighting configuration for further detection.

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