Patent ID: 6931602

Claim:
A method for interoperably training a machine vision tool remotely via a network, the method comprising: selecting, via a user interface running on a local computing platform connected to the network, a machine vision tool on a remote computing platform accessible via the network; selecting, via the user interface running on the local computing platform connected to the network, machine vision tool training parameter information to be used for training the machine vision tool on the remote computing platform accessible via the network, including: selecting, using the user interface running on the local computing platform connected to the network, an image acquiring device to acquire an image of an object, the image acquiring device being connected to an image communications device on a second remote computing platform accessible via the network; acquiring the image using the image acquiring device and sending the image to the image communications device; sending the image via the network from the image communications device to the machine vision tool on the remote computing platform connected to the network; sending the image via the network from the machine vision tool on the remote computing platform to the local computing platform running the user interface; displaying the image on a display device of the local computing platform connected to the network; and selecting a region of interest of the image via the user interface presented by the user interface running on the local computing platform connected to the network; sending, via the user interface running on the local computing platform connected to the network, the selected machine vision tool training parameter information to the machine vision tool on the remote computing platform; and commanding, via the user interface running on the local computing platform connected to the network, the remote computing platform to train the machine vision tool using the selected machine vision tool training parameter information, whereby the machine vision tool has been interoperably trained remotely via the network.