Patent ID: 11966569
Assignee: ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. A method for interacting with regions of interest (ROIs) in a machine vision application, the method comprising:
presenting a first user interface on a display, the first user interface including a canvas with an image;
presenting a first ROI associated with a first machine vision tool on the canvas and over a first portion of the image;
presenting a second ROI associated with a second machine vision tool on the canvas and over a second portion of the image;
while the first ROI is presented over the first portion of the image and while the second ROI is presented over the second portion of the image, targeting the first ROI or the second ROI as a targeted ROI for interaction based upon distances from a pointer displayed on the canvas to features of the first ROI and the second ROI;
modifying the targeted ROI in response to a first user input; and
configuring a machine vision camera to implement the machine vision tool associated with the targeted ROI based on the modified targeted ROI
wherein the features of the first ROI and the second ROI include a feature of the first ROI and a feature of the second ROI, and wherein targeting the targeted ROI for interaction includes:
when the pointer is within only the first ROI, targeting the first ROI as the targeted ROI;
when the pointer is within the first ROI and the second ROI, and the pointer is closer to the first border than to the second border, targeting the first ROI as the targeted ROI; and
when the pointer is within the first ROI and the second ROI, is equidistant to the first border and to the second border, and is closer to a first center of the first ROI than to a second center of the second ROI, targeting the first ROI as the targeted ROI.