Patent ID: 7961201

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a remote device capable of being located remotely from a machine vision device, the remote device including a remote display configured to receive and to display, when the remote device is located remotely from the machine vision device, given machine vision diagnostic data about a given machine vision tool on the machine vision device, the given machine vision diagnostic data, as displayed by the remote device, including plural discrete results of a given machine vision process of the given machine vision tool at respective discrete times within the given machine vision process; a remote display interface preconfigured to provide the remote display with limited access to display select information from the machine vision device independently of what is being displayed on a screen of the machine vision device, the select information being displayed when the remote device is located remotely from the machine vision device, and the select information including the given machine vision diagnostic data; a selection interface configured to allow a user to select, for display on the remote display, via a computer screen remote from the machine vision device, from among plural selectable computer screen displayed representations of the plural discrete results, less than all the plural discrete results, in accordance with the selection via the selection interface.