An automated line clearance inspection system will enable fast and accurate inspection of packaging equipment lines to reduce or prevent product intermixing. The system includes a set of image capturing devices that are controlled via a central processing unit whereby end run images are compared with control images to determine if a line is cleared.

An automated welding system includes a mounting platform configured to receive an object, a welding tool, an imaging device configured to acquire at least one image associated with the object, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive the at least one acquired image, analyze at least one pixel in the at least one acquired image, identify, based upon the analyzing, an area to be welded in the at least one acquired image, wherein the area to be welded includes a defect, and generate, based upon the identifying, control instructions for controlling at least one of the mounting platform and the welding tool to weld the area to be welded.

A method according to a set of instructions stored on the memory of a computing device. The method including the steps of locating, identifying and determining. The locating step locates at least one reference item in an image of a machine, the reference item having at least one predefined dimensional characteristic. The identifying step identifies a plurality of target points on the machine, the plurality of target points including a first target point and a second target point. The determining step determines a location of the first target point relative to the second target point dependent upon the at least one predefined dimensional characteristic.

An electronic device has a method capable of automatically executing angle rotation. A second body is rotatably connected to a first body of the electronic device. A hinge mechanism is disposed between the first body and the second body. The hinge mechanism includes a hinge component, a motor unit, a coupling component and an angle detecting unit. The first body and the second body are connected to the hinge component. The motor unit is electrically connected to a controller of the electronic device. The coupling component is connected between the hinge component and the motor unit. The angle detecting unit is connected to the hinge component or the coupling component to read its rotary angle. The controller drives the motor unit to rotate the hinge component via the coupling component, and the second body can be moved relative to the first body and be fixed at a predetermined position.

When a controller receives an external instruction for initial setting, the controller gives image sensors an instruction regarding lighting. When an image sensor among the image sensors receives the instruction regarding lighting from the controller, the image sensor performs lighting control in accordance with the instruction regarding lighting on a luminaire among luminaires to determine (i) a relative position of the luminaire relative to the image sensor and (ii) a relative position of the image sensor relative to a different image sensor among the image sensors. The controller determines positions of the image sensors and positions of the luminaires by collecting the relative positions of the image sensors and the relative positions of the luminaires determined by the image sensors.

When a controller receives an external instruction for initial setting, the controller gives image sensors an instruction regarding lighting. When an image sensor among the image sensors receives the instruction regarding lighting from the controller, the image sensor performs lighting control in accordance with the instruction regarding lighting on a luminaire among luminaires to determine (i) a relative position of the luminaire relative to the image sensor and (ii) a relative position of the image sensor relative to a different image sensor among the image sensors. The controller determines positions of the image sensors and positions of the luminaires by collecting the relative positions of the image sensors and the relative positions of the luminaires determined by the image sensors.

An occupancy-based communication network includes two or more device control assemblies wherein each of the two or more device control assemblies includes an occupancy sensor configured to detect one or more occupants. The first device control assembly of the two or more device control assemblies is configured to receive at least one of audio or video signals associated with a first occupant proximate to the first device control assembly, determine a location of a second occupant detected by at least one occupancy sensor of the two or more device control assemblies, determine a second device control assembly of the two or more device control assemblies proximate to the second occupant, and transmit to the second device control assembly, data indicative of the at least one of audio or video signals associated with the first occupant.

The image processing device displays, on a display, a virtual screen obtained by viewing, from above, an aggregate board in which multiple unit boards having a common component configuration are arranged. A control section of the image processing device uses one unit board at a predetermined position among the multiple unit boards as a reference unit board, generates a detailed image in which respective components are arranged on the unit board based on positional information of all components to be mounted on the unit boards, for the reference unit board, generates a simplified image obtained by simplifying the unit board, for a non-reference unit board other than the reference unit board among the multiple unit boards, and displays a simple virtual screen displaying the detailed image at a position of the reference unit board and the simplified image at a position of the non-reference unit board as the virtual screen.