Patent ID: 11908122
Assignee: SENSORS UNLIMITED, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A method comprising:
capturing, with a plurality of image acquisition devices, a plurality of images of a plurality of containers transiting past an inspection location on a production line;
for each respective container of the plurality of containers transiting past the inspection location on the production line,
identifying, by a controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of image acquisition devices from the plurality of images, one or more images of the plurality of images containing features of a product of a plurality of products portrayed on the respective container;
extracting, by the controller from the one or more images, the features of the product portrayed on the respective container;
determining, by the controller from the extracted features in each of the one or more images, a quality score of the respective image, wherein the quality score indicates a suitability of the respective image for positively identifying the product;
identifying, by the controller based on analysis of respective extracted features of an image of the one or more images having a highest quality score of the determined quality scores, a respective product grouping of one or more groupings of pattern data for the respective container based on a correspondence between the extracted features of the image having the highest quality score and respective pattern data from the respective product grouping,
wherein packaging pattern data for the one or more groupings of pattern data associated with the plurality of products processed on the production line are stored in a data storage region of the controller;

determining, by the controller based on the respective product grouping associated with the respective container, whether a match condition exists between the product associated with the respective container and a predetermined product of the plurality of products, and
causing actuation, by the controller responsive to failing to identify the match condition, of a rejection device to remove the respective container from the production line.