Patent ID: 6061089
Filing Date: 2000-05-09
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A communications protocol for use on a high-speed machine-vision digital serial communications link comprising:a packaged digital control packet having a first header that identifies the control packet as having control information and that provides routing information that identifies a source and a destination for the control packet on the digital serial communications link; anda packaged digital video-data packet having a second header that identifies the video-data packet as having video data and that provides routing information that identifies a source and a destination for the control packet on the digital serial communications link;wherein the first header and the second header are directly decodeable to distinguish control packets from video-data packets in order to provide high-speed operation for a machine-vision manufacturing operation, andwherein the control packet is optionally inserted within the video-data packet such that the first header distinguishes the control pack from other information within the video-data packet without changing second header and without adding another header.