Vision Tools Summary Table ACEUser's Guide, 3.6.x, 18316-000 Rev A Page 350 Function Tool Use/function/description See also Image Pro- cessing Analyzes greyscale images by applying arithmetic, assignment, logical, fil- tering, morphological, or histogram operators. Users can define custom fil- tering operators. Image His- togram Computes grey-level statistics within a user-defined region of interest. Image Sampling Extracts an area of an image and out- puts it as a separate Image. Image Sharp- ness Computes the sharpness of major edges in a user-defined region of interest.
Inspection Tools Inspection tools are commonly used in vision applic- ations to inspect objects and parts, typically found by a Locator tool. Inspection tools rely on the analysis of pixel information. Blob Analyzer Identifies blobs, and returns various results for each blob. Caliper Identifies one or more edge pairs and measures distances between the two edges within each pair. Arc Caliper Identifies one or more edge pairs on an arc-shaped or circular area and measures distances between the two edges within each pair. Edge Locator Identifies an edge or a set of edges that meet user-defined criteria. Arc Edge Loc- ator Identifies an edge or a set of edges in an arc-shaped or circular area.
Pattern Locator Identifies instances of a greyscale pat- tern. Filter Tools Filter tools specify criteria for limiting which instances will be processed. These criteria include physical appear- ance (including color) and proximity of the instances to each other.