Editing Machine vision (section)

===Methods and sequence of operation===

The first step in the automatic inspection sequence of operation is [[digital imaging|acquisition of an image]], typically using cameras, lenses, and lighting that has been designed to provide the differentiation required by subsequent processing.<ref name=Handbook427>{{cite book|title=Handbook of Machine Vision | author=Hornberg, Alexander |page=427| date= 2006|publisher=[[Wiley-VCH]]|isbn=978-3-527-40584-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x_1IauK-M2cC&pg=PA427|access-date=2010-11-05}}</ref><ref name = "DemantBook">{{cite book | author=Demant C.| author2=Streicher-Abel B.| author3=Waszkewitz P.| name-list-style=amp| title=Industrial Image Processing: Visual Quality Control in Manufacturing| publisher=Springer-Verlag | date=1999 | isbn=3-540-66410-6}}{{Page needed|date=May 2012}}</ref> MV [[software]] packages and programs developed in them then employ various [[digital image processing]] techniques to extract the required information, and often make decisions (such as pass/fail) based on the extracted information.<ref name=Handbook429>{{cite book|title=Handbook of Machine Vision | author=Hornberg, Alexander |page=429| date= 2006|publisher=Wiley-VCH|isbn=978-3-527-40584-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x_1IauK-M2cC&pg=PA429|access-date=2010-11-05}}</ref>