Patent ID: 9613391
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06T

Claim:
1. An inspection system that receives image data corresponding to an image and processes the image data to produce a report corresponding to characteristics of the image, the inspection system comprising: network interface cards that receive the image data in a flow, where each interface card receives image data corresponding to a different portion of the image, process node computers connected to the interface cards that receive the image data from the interface cards, a host computer connected to the process nodes, job manager programs stored in a non-transient memory and implemented in the host computer that manage the flow of image data to and from the process nodes, the job managers adapted to remain operable during a crash of one of the process nodes, and process node programs stored in a non-transient memory and implemented in the process nodes that analyze a portion of the image data and produce the report corresponding to the characteristics of the analyzed portion of the image data, at least one process node program implemented in each process node, where the process node programs rapidly analyze the image, the process node programs being isolated from the job managers so that a crash of a process node program does not crash the job manager.