PatMax Overview

This section provides an overview of the key elements of the PatMax software. Like other pattern-location technologies, PatMax trains a pattern, then locates one or more instances of that pattern in one or more run-time images.

PatMax offers three key features that distinguish it from other pattern-location technologies available in machine vision:

High-speed location of objects whose appearance is rotated, scaled, and/or stretched
Location technology that is based on object shape, not on grey-scale values
Very high accuracy

PatMax differs from other pattern-location technologies in that it is not based on pixel grid representations that cannot be efficiently and accurately rotated or scaled. Instead, PatMax uses a feature-based representation that can be transformed quickly and accurately for pattern matching.