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91-100%: The best of the best. Damn near flawless, and has to be quite ambitious to boot.
81-90%: Strong album. Not top tier, has some flaws but not enough to detract much from the album. Essential for fans of the genre.
71-80%: Decent album. Low second tier or third tier, usually either inconsistent or not ambitious enough to become terribly memorable. Recommended for fans of the genre, but not required.
61-70%: Somewhat listenable album. Bottom half of the third tier, and getting into stuff that has only a few redeemable qualities to keep it from being downright mediocre. Recommended only for fans of the band or those especially devoted to becoming familiar with the genre.
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26-50%: Garbage. No redeeming qualities, and there have to be flaws that put it below even the most mediocre of albums. Not worth hearing at all for any reason.
0-25%: Pure aural agony. Listening to the album for any length of time is actively painful. Egregiously bad in multiple facets.
Listed here are the 10 metal albums which are most important to me, personally - note that this does not necessarily mean the 10 albums I'd give the highest numerical review score, as a personal connection with the music is not necessarily the same as an album being objectively good. Note also that while I assign these an order, this doesn't necessarily reflect their relative importance to each other; though I've tried to rank them as best I can, emotional connection is difficult to empirically measure.
1) Holocaust - Covenant
2) Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera
3) Kamelot - Epica
4) Tiamat - Prey
5) Longings Past - Meadows of Maseilya
6) Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace
7) Hybernoid - The Last Day Begins
8) The Mist of Avalon - Here and After
9) Insomnium - In the Halls of Awaiting
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is still interested in bringing former striker Thierry Henry to the club on loan.
The Frenchman returned to the club where he scored 226 goals over an eight-year period on a short-team deal last season, famously netting the winner in an FA Cup clash against Leeds United.
Wenger has not yet ruled out a third Arsenal stint for Henry, with the 35-year-old's current club, the New York Red Bulls, out of action during the Major League Soccer off-season.
"I've not lost interest in him," Wenger told reporters.
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|Serge Limondin, Joe Dziezanowski
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This invention relates generally to computer programs and more particularly, to the object-oriented representation and architecture of such software programs and to the representation and properties of computer programs such as those programs used to describe and effectuate real time control of various manufacturing and process control applications.
The ultimate goal of a computer (application) program is to control the operation or processing of some form of data. More specifically, the goal of a machine vision system application program is to extract important features from image data from which a description, interpretation, or understanding of the objects in the image can be provided by the machine (computer) for the purpose of classification, reporting and decision making.
In a machine vision application, for example, a set of operations or steps are executed in sequence. A typical machine vision program flow diagram is shown in FIG. 1. The steps generally begin with the acquisition of an input image, which is captured by a camera and placed in memory, step 1. The image is optionally preprocessed, step 2, before the image is segmented and features are extracted from it. Segmentation and feature extraction, step 3, of the image into one or more distinct objects can be accomplished, for example by extracting their boundaries. Features can be any data that describes or identifies parts, features (holes, etc.) and objects in the camera scene, such as size, area, length, distance or like parameters.
Features are usually expressed in pixel units that describe the geometric position of a feature in the image relative to some fixed position in the image such as the top left corner of the image (also called an image coordinate system), or in physical units like "mm" or inches (also called a camera coordinate system) if the position of the camera in the scene is known or can be measured (usually referred to as calibrating the camera).
These features are typically checked against tolerances or classified into various categories, step 4, before a decision, step 5, can be made or pass/fail status and results obtained, step 6. Reports can also be generated, detailing the processing application, step 7. External control inputs, step 8, are used to activate the tolerance checking and to provide nominal tolerance values during execution for a particular feature.
The object oriented method of structuring a software step program, which is the subject of the present invention and described herein, has many advantages such as it:
1) Makes simple vision applications very easy to set up, train and run, while ensuring that complex applications can also be readily configured.
2) Provides a way to extend the programs by providing drop-in functionality in the form of language independent software components. New machine vision operations can be added to the system arbitrarily as well as new user interfaces for them. There are no arbitrary limits on the type of operation that can be done or data that can be returned by these computer programs.
3) Supports building the programs from a recipe database or directly using an easy to use point and click graphical user interface.
4) Allows access of any data in the step program by name for easy scripting either locally or over a network and free form expression support.
5) Provides a mechanism for expressing result data in the step program in different systems of coordinates so that, for example, measurements between features in different cameras can be easily computed when the object is too big to fit in one camera image.
6) Allows any such named data to be encoded in a form that is compatible with the Internet addressing scheme known as the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) address for access to any data either locally or from remote host machines on an Internet or Intranet network.
7) Provides a mechanism for the machine vision program to create the user interface components that allow the training and setting of parameters using a GUI (Graphical User Interface) library native to the platform (computer or system) that the program is loaded on.
8) Allows the training and tryout (i.e. trial runs) of the machine vision program on a host with the vision processor plugged into a peripheral extension bus of the same host computer or plugged into the peripheral extension bus of a different host computer that is on the same network as the setup and training host.
9) Allows the training and tryout of the machine vision program on a host computer with a standalone vision processor connected to the host system network.
10) Runs the machine vision computer programs unchanged on different CPU architectures and takes advantage of image processing acceleration hardware when available. More specifically the architecture supports a variety of processing models (corresponding to the runtime configurations as disclosed in commonly-owned, co-pending U.S. Provisional Patent application No. 60/066,339, filed Nov. 21, 1997, which is incorporated herein by reference), including:
a) Execution of the program on a vision processor board (the target) plugged in to a peripheral extension bus of the host computer.
b) Execution of the program on the host using a vision board plugged into the extension bus for image acquisition and accelerated image processing.
c) Execution of the program on the host using a vision board for image acquisition (frame grabber).
d) For each output or result generated, a system of coordinates which specifies the units this output is expressed in is attached.
e) Execution of the program on a standalone vision processor system (the target) connected to the host over a network.
10) Allows machine vision programs to also be monitored once running on the vision processor board or vision processor target for the purpose of diagnostics and debugging from a local host or a remote host.
The invention describes an object oriented method of structuring a software step program, which creates machine vision programs by composing a set of software objects or steps self-organized into a hierarchical structure which both provides the execution order and the connection of inputs to outputs at each step and between steps.
Steps are also organized into an object-oriented software hierarchy to take advantage of commonality between steps that perform similar operations.
A step program encodes a wealth of information. For example, a step program:
a) contains a list of operations that together make up the machine vision application;
b) for each step (operation), encodes the set of parameters and settings required to execute that step (operation) successfully;
c) for each step (operation), defines the inputs that the step (operation) accepts and the outputs or results that are generated;
d) for outputs that are generated, attaches a system of coordinate information so that results can be expressed in real physical units;
e) contains information that allows for the calibration of a system of coordinates to physical, real-world units like inches or mm and also allows the conversion of results from one system of coordinates to another;
f) defines the physical relationships between a system of coordinates by organizing them into a hierarchical tree structure referred to as a part step tree, which allows, for example the description of a moving camera by inserting a stage part step (i.e. the motion device the camera is mounted on) between the camera system of coordinates and the world system of coordinates (usually the table or fixture the entire apparatus is bolted on);
g) contains information to detect whether a particular operation needs to be setup or trained by the operator of the system before it can run successfully;
h) for each operation, contains information to invoke the required user interface components that assist an operator when setting up and training step programs regardless of the GUI (Graphical User Interface) environment the step program is loaded on;
i) for each operation, can construct an executable computer program that runs on the host PC or on a vision target board directly and which dynamically detects hardware and uses hardware acceleration when available; and
j) names for each step operation as well as inputs, outputs, settings and parameters, which provides a straightforward mechanism for accessing any results in the step program by name from an expression, spreadsheet or script.
In addition to describing sequences of vision operations, the disclosed step program architecture can also be used to describe a variety of other cell control operations which often have to be performed in conjunction with vision processing. Such programs include but are not limited to I/O, communications, and motion control applications. The step program architecture can even be used to exclusively describe such cell control programs that do not even contain any vision processing at all.
These and other features and advantages of the present invention will be better understood by reading the following detailed description, taken together with the drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 shows the typical software components that make up a machine vision program;
FIG. 2 shows a sample user interface view of a step program within a Host Graphical User Interface window;
FIG. 3 shows how the step program of FIG. 2 is executed and in what order steps run;
FIG. 4 shows the internal step object representation that supports this execution model;
FIG. 5 details the flow of data within a step when it is executed;
FIG. 6 shows the object-oriented inheritance hierarchy that supports both the step execution and data flow models;
FIG. 7 shows the object-oriented inheritance hierarchy that supports the step execution late binding for optimal performance;
FIGS. 8A-8C are block schematic diagrams showing the host and target system network connectivity that are supported by the object oriented method of the present invention, for the purpose of creating, setting up and trying out an applications program full such as a machine vision program; and
FIG. 9 shows the relationship between the output results generated by a step program and system of coordinates in the context of a two camera sample step program which calculates the distance between features in separate camera images.
The machine vision step program architecture that is the subject of this invention is preferably implemented by a set of software objects called steps organized in a hierarchical tree structure. This representation lets client code treat objects and composition of objects uniformly. A sample tree structure representation of a step program is shown in FIG. 2.
As described herein for exemplary purposes, steps are software objects (i.e. C++ Classes) which are combined to form the step program. They are organized in a tree or hierarchical fashion where steps can contain other steps (called children steps) to perform training, preprocessing, coordinate transformation and post processing operations. Steps communicate parameters and results by using datum objects.
Datum objects are software objects that provide standard types for all results found in a vision application and allow results from one step (output) to be used as inputs to other steps. Steps and datum objects (datums) can be edited graphically by using standard GUI component object editors well known in the industry such as one or more of the following generic component type editor such as tree control, list control, text control and/or picture control.
Editors are software objects that can create all the necessary views and user interface controls to change steps and datums using a point-and-click user interface. FIG. 2 shows the editor object that is created to display an entire step program graphically in a tree control window.
In addition, each step and datum in a step program contains a special identifier or GUID (Globally Unique IDentifier) which allows the step or datum to dynamically create the editor objects that let a user change parameters and settings and train a step or datum. The GUID is stored on the host in a special database sometimes referred to as a "registry" in the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as inside the step and datum object itself.
The host provides standard operating system APIs (application programmer interfaces) to create an object dynamically given its GUID. This, in essence generates a dual object hierarchy where every runtime step or datum may contain a pointer to an editor object providing a user interface for manipulating the step parameters and inputs. These editor objects on the host in turn create software components which in the preferred embodiment are implemented as ActiveX controls for Windows95 or NT operating systems, that provide familiar views, windows and/or dialogs for editing and training the step parameters.
On the target, these identifiers are either ignored when the step program is controlled by the host or are used to generate runtime user interface editors to manipulate the step inputs when the machine vision step program is running in a standalone configuration (as described in next section).
Some steps create other steps to handle the runtime processing and setup or training. These steps are particularly useful in that they can assist the operator at setup time with intelligent training. Intelligent training is the operation wherein the step is shown a single sample image representative of the features that need to be detected during runtime and perform a training operation to self-define the optimal set of runtime settings and parameters.
The execution order is encoded by the step program 100 first by the position of the step in the tree, i.e. in the order one would enumerate them by reading their name from left-to-right and top-to-bottom. This is referred as walking or traversing the tree making sure each position is visited once until all steps have been traversed.
The execution order is further encoded by a special attribute attached to each step in the tree, which can modify the rule presented above. For example, step 112 in step program 100 may have an attribute set which causes it to be executed before step 110, therefore changing the execution order as defined by the tree traversal rule mentioned above. This is called a preprocessing step or more rigorously a step that has the preprocessing attribute turned on. As will be described later, attributes are not restricted to being execution order modifiers.
In FIG. 2, each iconic picture represents an individual step operation of step program 100 according to the present invention. Indented steps, in addition to their tree organization, have the following attributes:
Preprocessing steps, which are executed before their parent. (FindPin1, step 116, is an example of a preprocessing step);
Training steps, which assist the operator when setting up the parameters of an operation. (Find Setup, step 118, is an example of a training step); and
Post-processing steps, which are executed after their parent. (Warp Step, step 122, is an example of a post-processing step).
Therefore, the execution order is encoded by the step program 100 both by the position of the step in the tree and by the set and selected pre/post processing attribute as well.
Special steps called container steps group together children steps and set their execution order. These container steps may also provide a common input to all their children steps. For example, the SnapShot step, step 110, defines the input image that all its contained children steps, steps 112-128, operate on, while their order dictates their rank of execution.
FIG. 3 shows the step program execution order of the step program 100 of FIG. 2. The step program execution begins with the acquisition of an image, step 112. Following image acquisition, the program increments to the next step in the hierarchy, which is the 2PinFind step, step 114. However, since the 2PinFind step contains three contained children steps, FindPin1, FindPin2 and Warp Step, steps 116, 120 and 122, respectively, the program must inspect each child step's pre/post processing attribute in order to execute the steps in their proper order.
In this example, since Findpin1 and FindPin2, steps 116 and 120, respectively, are tagged as preprocessing steps, they are executed before their parent step, which is the 2PinFind step, step 114. (Note that when the FindPin1 step, step 116, is executed, its contained child step, which is the FindSetup step, step 118, is entirely skipped since its SETUP attribute tags it as a Train only step and not as a Runtime step.)
The next step in the execution order is the parent step, step 114, the 2PinFind step. Following execution of the parent, step 114, the program executes all contained post-processing steps, which, in the present example includes the Warp Step, step 122, including its contained steps, which comprise the DefectFinder and OCV Fontless Tools steps, steps 124 and 126, respectively. Finally, the step program will execute the I/O output step, step 128 and the step program will have been completed.
Referring to the representation of the step program shown in FIG. 2, it can be seen that, in addition to fixing the execution order, the children step inputs are automatically connected to their parent container outputs.
Three basic software objects encode this internal data and execution flow. FIG. 4 provides a detailed structure of these software objects. The objects comprise step objects, which may be parent objects or child objects, such as step objects 200 and 300. Additional classes of objects include reference objects, such as reference object 400 and datum objects, such as datum object 500. These objects are organized into an inheritance object-oriented hierarchy from which other steps are derived from as shown in FIG. 6.
To further define the hierarchical structure, steps that are at the same indentation level, as shown in FIG. 2, (e.g. steps 112 and 114 or steps 124 and 126) are physically stored in a data structure called a map. This map storage is part of the parent step object, which contains all these children steps, i.e. the step from which these children steps are directly indented. A map is a standard C++ library container object that is used to store and link together a set of arbitrary objects. In addition, each object in the list can be individually tagged by an attribute. In the current invention, attributes are used to refine the execution order of steps (i.e. preprocessing and post processing) as well as mark special classes of steps (SETUP steps and PART steps).
Any step within a program contains a list of contained steps called a _children list (hereinafter childlist), 210 of FIG. 4. Every step in a _childlist is tagged as either: PRE (Pre Processing) (e.g. steps 211 and 212), SETUP (Train), (e.g. step 213), PART (Calibration, coordinate transformation), (e.g. step 215) or POST (Post Processing), (e.g. step 214), to control the order in which they should be executed with respect to their parent step. The _datumlist 230 contains a list of the step inputs (IN), 231 and 232, outputs (OUT), 234 and resources (RES), 233. Resources (or resource datums) are parameters or settings that need to be set in order for that step to perform its operation.
In addition, parent objects include _reflists, 220, which list the set of objects that either are using this object datums or need to be notified when the object values are changed. This list typically contains editor objects, which provide the operator of the system with a graphical view of the step or datum on the screen. FIG. 2 above is an example of such an editor object.
Editors are created by using the _GUID (Globally Unique Identifier), 240, stored inside every step or datum which defines the type of object that can provide user interface control for changing this step parameters and settings.
During step execution, (FIG. 5) all the datums tagged as IN datums 510, such as datums 1, 2 and 3 (512, 514 and 516, respectively) are read by the step and, based on its internal resource datums, such as RES Datums 1, 2 and 3 (235, 237 and 239) the output datums, such as OUT Datum 1, 2 and 3 (236, 238 and 242) are calculated according to the operation that the step is performing.
Each output datum has a pointer, which points to a special step object called a Part step. Part steps contain information about the units for output datums. A Part step is a member of a separate tree of objects, called a "part tree", which is built when the step program is created. Special steps in the object framework, like the SnapShot step 110 of FIG. 2, create, when they are inserted into the step program tree, additional steps to provide coordinate systems or units to their output datums.
In the case of a SnapShot step, the output image is associated with this special Part step called a Snap Part step. The Snap Part step is stored in the child list of the SnapShot step and given the attribute (PART) which flags it as a system of coordinates type object. These special objects are not executed at runtime but support the Calibrate method once a camera has physically been placed into position, either on a rigid stand for a fixed camera or on a motion stage for a moving camera.
For the step program shown on FIG. 2, the part tree looks like the following:
+WorldPart << always there, World system of coordinate where everything is measured from
+SnapPart << each camera has a position in the World.
+WarpPart << Some vision tool rotate and move the image mathematically, these generate system of coordinates as well.
In the above image, the WorldPart represents the system of coordinates of the entire system with respect to some known physical position (e.g. a table, or a room in which the equipment is located). This is a default system of coordinates which is created whenever a step program is loaded from disk or created using editor objects.
The SnapPart represents the position of the camera in the world created by the SnapShot step 110 of FIG. 2.
The WarpPart represents how the image coordinates are transformed through the process of warping the image created by the WarpStep, step 122 of FIG. 2.
Each output datums, such as OUT Datum 1, 2 and 3 (236, 238 and 242) includes a part step (i.e. 501 of FIG. 4) that contains a pointer to a system of coordinates (object) which encodes the units used by this output. For an output result which is, for example, the position of a feature in an image (such as a hole) which is encoded by two numbers x and y, the system of coordinates consist of two axis where x represent the pixel position along the horizontal axis of the image and y represents the pixel position of the feature along the vertical axis of the image, with pixel position 0,0 being the top-left corner of the image.
That coordinate system object is, itself, a step that has the attribute "PART" active as shown at 501 in FIG. 4. These Part steps are inserted in the step program whenever a step that generates an image as one of its result Output datum is created.
For example, for the Step program 700 of FIG. 9 which calculates the physical distance between features (in the present example "holes") in separate camera images, consists of two SnapshotSteps 702 and 704, each containing one preprocessing AcquireStep 706 to capture the image from the camera, and one postprocessing FindStep 708 to locate the position of each desired image attribute e.g. (hole) (x and y coordinates of the "hole" center in each camera's image coordinate system), each snapshot step 704 creates a SnapshotStep PartStep (i.e. Step with the attribute "PART" set) and inserts it into its children list _childlist as shown at 215 of FIG. 4. The SnapPartStep encodes the position of the origin 0, 0 and axis (horizontal and vertical) of the coordinate system attached to the Output image Datum of the particular SnapshotStep. It also encodes the unit of measurement that the features calculated from this image are reported in.
Typically, all features and results extracted from a camera image are reported in pixels until the camera is calibrated to inches or millimeters. The Output Image Datum of the SnapshotStep in turn contains a pointer to the SnapPartStep as shown in the FIG. 4 datum list as output datum item 500 d.
Calibrating a camera is the process by which, once the camera position has been measured or is known a priori in the World (i.e. Camera 1 (710) and Camera 2 (712) Position in the table coordinate system WorldPart 705 of FIG. 9), position in a given camera image can be converted to position in the scene (the "world"). For the step program 700 of FIG. 9, the FindStep 708 reports the position (x,y) of each "hole" or other attribute in the image being sought after, in pixel coordinates as described earlier.
The x,y position is then converted to world or scene X,Y coordinates by each SnapShot 702/704 PartStep of the respective SnapshotStep output image Datum before the physical distance between the two holes can be calculated. These two coordinate systems are shown in FIG. 9 as SnapPartCaml (X1,Y1) 710 and SnapPartCam2 (X2, Y2) 712.
The Snap PartStep, when executed at runtime, converts a feature like the x,y position of each hole as in FIG. 9 from pixel coordinates to camera coordinates so that measuring the distance between the two holes, for example, can be calculated. In fact the SnapPartStep steps of the step program in FIG. 9 convert the x,y locations of each hole to a system of coordinates common to all cameras (i.e. WorldPart coordinate system 705 in FIG. 9).
The WorldPartStep 705, FIG. 9, represents the system of coordinates of the entire system with respect to some known physical position like the physical table or object to which the two cameras are mounted on, and is created whenever a step program is loaded into the system either on a host computer or on a vision processor system. Once the position of each hole or other image attribute in the step program in FIG. 9 has been converted by each SnapPartStep to a common system of coordinates (the WorldPart) the Pt—Pt Distance step 714 calculates the distance in WorldPart units (typically inches or millimeters) between the holes or other image attributes.
The _refto field of every datum object (e.g. 622 of FIG. 6) handles connections between inputs of one step and outputs of another. This field always points to a datum of the same type that contains the values to be used by the step during the execution of the step program.
FIG. 6 describes the way the foundation objects are organized. All basic objects can contain children objects, this is shown by the composite object, 600. Steps are composite objects that also contain datums objects 620, to receive inputs and calculate output results. Every datum object 620 contains one or more reference members 622 (_refto) so that steps can be connected together through their outputs. An output datum in this representation is a datum whose _refto pointer is pointing to itself. Editor object 630 serves as input to Host display object 640.
An immediate advantage of this structure is that a connected datum, i.e. a datum that is of the input or resource type, can also keep its own value separate from the one that is used when running. This is normally used to store nominal values.
Since every object in a step program is named, it is possible to construct a string, which uniquely describes the position or address of a result datum in the program. This allows a scripting language, or a formula for a spreadsheet cell, to build complex expressions that manipulate step data directly after a step program has been executed. For example, in FIG. 2, the FindPin1 step, step 116, locates a pattern in the image and returns its position as a point with two coordinates {x,y}. This output point is called "bestmatch" inside the FindPin1 step. To manipulate the point x coordinate from a script, an operator would simply type, "FindPin1.BestPoint.x". (Note that "FindPin1.BestMatch" uniquely identifies this point in the Step program.) The full address that is guaranteed to be unique is:
The expression to find out if this coordinate is greater or equal to zero is:
Given this representation and the fact that the host system is connected to the vision processor using either a local network (the vision processor on board the host system as shown in FIG. 8A) or a physical network as shown in FIGS. 8B and 8C, and also supported by co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/026,052 and entitled Apparent Network Interface For And Between Embedded and Host Processors incorporated herein by reference, it is possible to encode the vision processor location into the datum address for the purpose of displaying on the host results that are calculated by a running machine vision step program.
This representation relies on the fact that the vision processor board and/or host system is setup as a Web server and can therefore answer connection from a Web browser running on the local host system (FIG. 8A) or a remote host system (FIGS. 8B and 8C).
The full address is concatenated with the Uniform Resource Locator address or URL of the vision processor board or vision processor system that is controlled by the host. This can be used to display within a Web page on the host the data value that is being computed by the machine vision step program executing on the vision processor. For the expression above, the URL address is:
a) http://VisionProcessorNetworkName/ identifies the vision processor board or system the host is connected to.
b) exec/ShowValue specifies the program on the vision processor board or system to call to get the value of the data calculated by the machine vision step program.InspectionStep . . . BestPoint.x is the address of the Datum in_the step program that needs to be accessed as described earlier.
Step programs can be hardware or software encoded and can be executed on different CPU architectures and can take advantage of hardware acceleration for image processing operations at runtime. This is done by late-binding of a step program to a hardware platform upon which it is to be run.
In an object-oriented language, like C++, every object that is allocated into memory also needs to be initialized. Calling a special function of the object called a constructor initializes an object. Because the step code which implements the object functions or methods is part of the application code running on that CPU and not part of the step program saved on disk, it is possible to implement the object or step functions differently depending on where the object or step is loaded.
FIG. 7 shows the techniques which are used at runtime to efficiently execute a step program.
1. The root of the step program is a special container object called a Target object, which, when constructed, i.e. when the step program is loaded into memory causing the constructor method to be called, scans the computer for hardware resources. In particular, image acquisition devices as well as pipeline image acceleration hardware (as found on the Acuity Vision Processor board described in commonly owned, co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/953,772, incorporated herein by reference, are detected. In addition, memory is allocated to receive the images digitized from the camera in a location where they can be efficiently analyzed by the hardware.
At runtime, the steps 650, FIG. 7, which perform image processing operations construct low-level software objects called agents 652 a-652 c, to analyze the image. These software agents are created using a technique called a late binding method. Late binding is the process wherein the step itself creates the software object(s) to perform the processing operation (i.e. the image processing step). Late binding is the process wherein executable code is selected/generated from a number of possible executable code sets based upon certain characteristics such as physical CPU present, operating system, type of memory, etc., with a view toward maximizing performance. In the present invention, late binding is utilized to optimize performance of the image processing system based upon the physical location of the image in the image memory.
As a result, the step program transparently supports a number of runtime models. For example:
The step program can be executed on a host CPU using digitizer hardware, such as the digitizer described in co-pending Provisional Patent Application No. 60/066,339 and previously filed U.S. Patent Application identified as U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/030,411 filed Feb. 25, 1998 and entitled FLEXIBLE PROCESSING HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE, both of which are incorporated herein by reference, as a frame grabber board directly connected to the host CPU PCI bus.
The step program can be executed on a host CPU. However, image processing operations can be accelerated by using a vision processor such as described in commonly-owned, copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/953,772 incorporated herein by reference.
The step program can be executed on a target CPU board as described in commonly-owned, co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/030,411, with the board plugged inside the host CPU PCI bus.
The step program can be executed on a standalone target CPU board which is connected to the host CPU over a network or not connected at all, as described in the above-referenced U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/030,411.
Modifications and substitutions by one of ordinary skill in the art are considered to be within the scope of the present invention which is not to be limited except by the claims which follow.
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The Review Are In: Hillary 'Superb,' 'Strong,' 'Very Solid' In First Debate
WASHINGTON POST'S CHRIS CILLIZZA - HILLARY 'CRISP AND CONCISE,' 'HELPED HER CAUSE BY FLASHING HER EXPERIENCE AND THE BREADTH OF HER KNOWLEDGE': "[I]n Clinton's case, she may well have helped her cause by flashing her experience and the breadth of her knowledge on the issues... Clinton was crisp and concise, rarely going over her allotted time and keeping to her message of experience and leadership." [Chris Cillizza, The Fix, 4/26/07]
PAT BUCHANAN - HILLARY 'LEAVES THIS DEBATE AS A STRONGER FRONT-RUNNER': "Hillary Rodham Clinton entered this debate as the front-runner and leaves this debate as a stronger front-runner. She won going away. Responding in what she would do in an event of an attack, Hillary was an almost echo of Ronald Reagan." [MSNBC.com, 4/26/07]
MICHAEL CROWLEY - HILLARY 'SMOOTH AND STEADY': "Smooth and steady--she's disciplined and it shows." [TNR.com, 4/26/07]
TUCKER CARLSON - HILLARY 'RELATES TO THE CROWD,' SHOWED 'NOBODY IS BETTER IN THIS FORM THAN SHE IS': "Clinton came out and immediately got specific and earthy... There is a gospel band, voices of Christ up on the stage. She comes out and immediately says the music here world-renowned, terrific, I love South Carolina, your ROTC program has boosted all these generals, details about the school itself, the crowd loved her...Hillary Clinton always goes for the specifics, and always goes for the specifics that relates to the crowd that she is speaking to. Nobody is better in this form than she is." [Tucker Carlson, MSNBC, 4/26/07]
MSNBC'S MATTHEWS - HILLARY 'DID VERY WELL...HER PRESENTATION WAS VERY SOLID...VERY IMPRESSIVE': -- "I thought Hillary Clinton did really well tonight. As a frontrunner, I think she held her place. I think her voice, her manner, her presentation was very solid...I thought she held herself as a frontrunner and kept her status...I think that she kept her voice, and she was very controlled, and very professional and very impressive." [Chris Matthews, MSNBC, 4/26/07]
MSNBC'S SCARBOROUGH -- HILLARY 'SOLID...HER ANSWERS...WERE STRONG.': "Hillary Clinton...Not flashy but solid. Her answers on health care and government competence were strong." [Joe Scarborough, MSNBC.com, 4/26/07]
BOB SHRUM - HILLARY WAS 'SUPERB': "Clinton was superb...Winner: Hillary Clinton." [MSNBC.com, 4/26/07]
NBC'S ANDREA MITCHELL – HILLARY 'THE CLEAREST STAR': "Hillary Clinton was the clearest star in this and experience counts." [Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC, 4/26/07]
NEWSWEEK'S HOWARD FINEMAN – 'IT WAS A GOOD NIGHT FOR HILLARY CLINTON…SHE DID SUPERBLY WELL': "It's clear that the consensus among the reporters that I talked to as I was going around the spin room press room but that it was a good night for Hillary Clinton. She was calm, she was professional, she was collegial, she was on her mark, she was on her issues, she did superbly well." [Howard Fineman, MSNBC, 4/26/07]
MSNBC'S CHRIS MATTHEWS – 'MRS. CLINTON DID VERY WELL': "I thought Mrs. Clinton did very well, the Senator did very well tonight. I thought that she is the front runner in all the polls and she has to maintain a certain presence… She avoided criticizing anyone else, she talked about the president mostly." [Chris Matthews, MSNBC, 4/26/07]
AJC'S CYNTHIA TUCKER – 'CLINTON LOOKED PRESIDENTIAL…SHE'S IN A VERY GOOD POSITION TO WIN THIS RACE: "I also have to say as others have already said, that Senator Clinton looked very presidential. I don't think that she put aside forever the question of whether a woman can be commander-in-chief. I think that question will come up for her again and again and again. But if she comports herself as well throughout the rest of this very long campaign as she did this evening, she's in very a good position to win this race and that's something I didn't think six months ago." [Cynthia Tucker, MSNBC, 4/26/07]
NEWSDAY – HILLARY 'DELIVERED A COOL, CONFIDENT PERFORMANCE': "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a cool, confident performance Thursday night in the first primary debate of the 2008 presidential season." [Newsday, 4/27/07]
NEW YORK TIMES – HILLARY 'PROFESSORIAL AND EMPHATIC': "Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was professorial and emphatic as she spoke Thursday night." [New York Times, 4/27/07]
NEW YORK POST – HILLARY WAS 'PRESIDENTIAL': [New York Post, 4/27/07]
CNN'S AMY HOLMES – 'HILLARY DID HERSELF A LOT OF GOOD. SHE WAS STRONG. SHE WAS CONFIDENT': "I think Hillary did herself a lot of good. She was strong, she was confident. She was able to both talk about being a New Democrat, about Capitalism, entrepreneurship, and was also talking about corporate responsibility. I thought she finessed that well." [Amy Holmes, CNN, 4/26/07]
TERRY HOLT – HILLARY 'DEMONSTRATED SHE'S THE REAL DEAL': "I think tonight she demonstrated that she's the real deal. A lot of people said that she's too rigid, that she's too bound by the discipline of her campaign. But that came through tonight with authority, with conviction. She hit it out of the park when she talked about how she would respond to two city attack by terrorists. She was the most definitive and the strongest in that regard. I think that she did all that she could do tonight in this field to distinguish herself as the frontrunner" [Terry Holt, CNN, 4/26/07]


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We ran across this about a year ago.
Basically, MS smb over tcp over nat/vpn has been broken since win2k.
Microsoft's take:
More detailed scenario:
In our situation, this meant that because we source nat to build a wan, we can't use a MS share for file sharing.
After trying the solutions mentioned in the 2nd article, and cobbling some others together that didn't work either, we gave up and host our file share via Open Solaris.
Just wondering if anyone else has run into this, and if they ever found a verifiable way to make MS smb behave.
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Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 UTC
Lawrie Dalman Consulting is an IT service provider.
We have had this and any number of other issues with SMB and that does not take into account the whole new range of SMB dramas created with the release of Windows Vista and subsequently with Windows 7 connecting to Server 2k3.
The only thing we have had success with was disabling SMB on both clients and servers where the problems occur.
In a number of cases we put this down to the relationship between reducing vulnerabilities quite literally decreasing functionality, which of course is a bit of a paradox.
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We recently had an open trouble ticket with Microsoft in which they addressed SMB and it's poor behavior. They did acknowledge that it was a problem and suggested that we change the registry keys on all servers to use only SMB version 1 instead of the default of using version 2. We have all Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 running in a virtual environment, but seen no change at all due to the change.
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MIAMI A 20-year-old man plotted with a fugitive to hijack the "Joe Cool" charter fishing boat and fatally shot two of the four people killed on the high seas, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday in closing arguments at the man's trial.
Attorneys for Guillermo Zarabozo countered that the Hialeah man shot no one and was unwittingly lured onto the boat by a devious manipulator who promised exotic jobs with big money and possible CIA connections.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Gilbert scoffed at Zarabozo's claims that he didn't know the violence was about to take place when the men boarded the vessel out of Miami last September. Zarabozo blamed 36-year-old Kirby Archer for the crimes, contending he was in the boat's bathroom when the four victims were shot.
"It's all made up. None of that ever happened," Gilbert said of Zarabozo's testimony. "It was a joint effort. They were acting together."
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Authorities never recovered the bodies or weapons and have no witnesses who saw what happened on the boat. But they had evidence that Zarabozo brought his 9mm Glock handgun aboard and had recently purchased ammunition identical to four shell casings found on the "Joe Cool." He also carried a blow gun and darts, a military-style knife and handcuffs, prosecutor said.
Prosecutors also presented evidence that the pair took pains before leaving to cover their tracks.
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Just get it done. Makes too much sense.
Red J sure loves the "process"
It's time like this that make me realize how little I know about players. Is Dan Connor elite at his position? Forgive me for not watching any Panthers games.
Not elite. Think solid starter. Maybe a notch below Sean Lee and more of a run stuffing ILB than a coverage ILB. But he's darn good at stuffing the run and looks to bust the LOS rather than sit back and let the play come to him. He's also another PSU LB product and fits the mold well. Smart, instinctive, tough, hard worker, etc.. would love to have him here.
Wow, I thought he left and would take multiple visits.
Get this done.
Good deal
And you've poo pooing everything that's been happening. So what's the difference?
Hopefully Sean is there too
Just saw a tweet that Sean and Carter just got done working out together. Im sure he has something to do with bringing Connor in though, no doubt.
I doubt those arm bands are allowed in the NFL. They have a uniform code.


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Voonlar was a trading town and farming community located in the southwest corner of the Moonsea region of north Faerûn.[1][8] The temple itself stood at the intersection of the North Ride and Shind Road in the center of Voonlar.[1][6]
The temple and extensive gardens were surrounded by walls and took up about a third of the town proper.[2][3] The gates were circular in design and made of thick iron bars overgrown with flowering vines and moss. The frame around the gates bore a design of sheaves of wheat.[4][5]
The main temple was a beautiful edifice with multiple slender bell towers. The grounds of the compound were a maze of flagstone paths that passed by lush flower beds and blooming shrubbery interspersed with pools and trellis-covered benches. These bowers could be lit at night with dancing lights. There were also three guesthouses and several greenhouses all connected by tunnels used for heating and irrigation pipes.[4][5]
The Bounty generated some revenue by selling quince and persimmons, herbs and spices, seeds, and herbal elixirs that had various healing properties. They kept a small supply of healing potions but sold these discretely,[4][5] unlike the Lathanderites of the House of Holy Light who made it a lucrative business.[9][10] There was also a small brewery run by one of the Trueseeds, but it is unknown if the barley beer was sold or given away as gifts or favors.[2][3]
Adventurers on the run from local law enforcement, the Zhentarim, or the Cyricists from the Dark God Reformed could sometimes find shelter in the guesthouses and extensive tunnel system in the gardens of the compound.[4][5]
Despite the animosity between Voonlar and Shadowdale, the Bounty of the Goddess enjoyed a close relationship with its counterpart in Shadowdale, the House of Plenty. Lady Shrae exchanged news and information, such as intelligence about impending raids, and the activities of the Cyricists and the Zhentarim, with High Harvestmistress Glamerie Windbough via messengers with armed escort.[6] Under Lady Shrae's tenure, her messenger was Trueseed Rolivar Brimbruir, typically accompanied by at least eight mounted temple guards.[2][11]
The guards of the temple were mainly farmers and drovers, known as Harvestrods, who could be called upon to don leather and chainmail armor and defend the Bounty of the Goddess, typically against acts of vandalism, thievery, and arson by the local Cyricists. The guards had training in the broadsword, dagger, and mace.[2][3]
When the walls around the Bounty of the Goddess lands were first constructed, there was strong opposition from Bron Buorstag Hlammythyl, the elected sheriff of Voonlar. He later completely reversed his stance and became a supporter of the project.[4][3] As part of the project to build a wall around the temple grounds, the Bounty donated a large tract of their gardens north of Daerndrean Street to the town, essentially tripling the size of the Common Gardens that adjoined them.[2][3]
The temple also sold a guesthouse it owned on the North Ride near the outskirts of town to a Sembian gold merchant from Yhaunn named Ornar Harlathar who converted it into a hunting lodge. This action pleased Bron Buorstag because more hunting in the woods meant more chances to kill or drive away raiders from Shadowdale or Harper spies.[2][3]
Rumors and legendsEdit
It was speculated that the Bron's sudden change of heart about building a wall around the temple was precipitated by a suggestion from someone in a superior position within the Zhentarim who felt that the wall would make it easier to contain and observe the Chaunteans and their visitors.[4][3]
It was said that the iron bars underlying the flowery wooded gates to the Bounty of the Goddess compound were of ancient dwarven craftsmanship.[4][5]
The most well-known of the clergy at the Bounty of the Goddess were:[2][3]
- Ardethra Murmarand: Watchful Sister; expert herbalist for humans and livestock.
- Erlan Faerlnar: Watchful Brother; soil and nutrients expert.
- Haronstin "Leatherjaws" Garulth: Close One; seed-seller and carter; elderly, relaxed, high tolerance for alcohol.
- Immithra Shrae: Mother of the Harvest; high priestess of Chauntea; soft-spoken, kind, and pleasant.
- Jhalanessa Brithlar: Watchful Sister; expert herbalist; mischievous and passionate.
- Lauratha Delrym: Trueseed; prim but nosy; knew everyone in town and what they were doing.
- Lothan Maergh: Watchful Brother; expert with bulbs, seeds, and grafting.
- Rolivar Brimbruir: Trueseed; boisterous and burly brewmaster; even Cyricists laughed at his jokes and appreciated his beer.
Many of the lay servants were the mothers of the active clergy.[2][3]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jeff Grubb, Ed Greenwood and Karen S. Martin (1987). Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (Cyclopedia of the Realms). (TSR, Inc), p. 87. ISBN 0-8803-8472-7.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Ed Greenwood (April 2001–May 2003). Elminster Speaks archive (Zipped PDF). Elminster Speaks. Wizards of the Coast. p. 10. Retrieved on 2016-09-03.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Ed Greenwood (2001-04-04). Part #8: To Venerate The Great Mother. Elminster Speaks. Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved on 2016-09-13.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Ed Greenwood (April 2001–May 2003). Elminster Speaks archive (Zipped PDF). Elminster Speaks. Wizards of the Coast. p. 9. Retrieved on 2016-09-03.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Ed Greenwood (2001-04-04). Part #7: The House of the Helm. Elminster Speaks. Wizards of the Coast. Retrieved on 2016-09-13.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 John Terra (February 1995). The Moonsea (Reference Guide). (TSR, Inc), p. 22. ISBN 978-0786900923.
- ↑ John Terra (Feburary 1995). The Moonsea (Player's Guide). (TSR, Inc), p. 10. ISBN 978-0786900923.
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27.74 acres in Henderson County, Texas
Great pasture land with commercial potential. Has water on two sides. All utilities available
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