Patent Document ID: 8290243
Application ID: 12693866
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An inspection system, comprising: a stage, for supporting an inspected object and for moving the inspected object by a movement that is characterized by speed variations; a signal generator, for generating triggering pulses at a fixed frequency regardless of the speed variations; a stage location generator, for providing location information indicative of a location of the stage at points of time that are determined by the triggering pulses; a strobe illuminator for illuminating areas of the inspected object in response to the triggering pulses; a camera for acquiring images of areas of the inspected object in response to the triggering pulses; a processor for associating location information to the acquired images; and a distribution module for receiving the triggering pulses, and generating camera triggering signals, frame grabber triggering signals and stage location triggering signals that are responsive to timing differences between propagation periods of the camera triggering signals, the frame grabber triggering signals and the stage location triggering signals.