Patent ID: 7688355

Claim:
A computing system for storing images of a workpiece, the system comprising: a charged coupled device (CCD) configured for capturing a series of white and black images of a workpiece, and recording coordinate values of center points of the images; and a computer comprising: an image retrieving card configured for retrieving the images and the coordinate values of center points of the images from the CCD; a storage for storing the coordinate values of center points of the images provided by the image retrieving card in a location file, and storing the images provided by the image retrieving card, each image comprising a plurality of pixels, each of which has three bytes of color information; an image storing program configured for reading each image from the storage, reading one byte of the three bytes' color information of each pixel of the image, storing one by one the read one byte of the three bytes' color information of each pixel in an array allocated by the storage, obtaining a coordinate value of a center point of the image in the location file, and storing the coordinate value of center point of the image and the array representing the image's color information as an object in a source file in the storage; and a processor that executes the image storing program.