影像處理技術專利侵權，Cognex向MVTec等10家公司提起ITC 337調查

提告日期

2009年5月28日

原告

Cognex Corp. of Natick, Massachusetts
Cognex Technology & Investment Corp. of Mountain View, California

被告

MVTec Software GmbH of Germany;
MVTec LLC of Cambridge, Massachusetts;
E. Zoller GmbH & Co. KG of Germany;
Zoller Inc. of Ann Arbor, Michigan;
Fuji Machine Manufacturing Co., Ltd. of Japan;
Fuji America Corp. of Vernon Hills, Illinois;
Omron Corp. of Japan;
Resolution Technology, Inc. of Dublin, Ohio;
Subtechnique, Inc. of Alexandria, Virginia;
Visics Corp. of Wellesley, Massachusetts.

地點

United States International Trade Commission (美國國際貿易委員會)

案號

337-TA-

系爭專利

U.S. 7,016,539 (Method for fast, robust, multi-dimensional pattern recognition )

U.S. 7,065,262 (Fast high-accuracy multi-dimensional pattern inspection)

U.S. 6,959,112 (Method for finding a pattern which may fall partially outside an image)  

爭議議題

Cognex alleges that proposed respondent MVTec’s “HALCON” machine vision software and systems infringe the asserted patents.  Cognex further alleges that machine vision systems and products made abroad by equipment manufacturers, such as Zoller GmbH, Fuji Machine Manufacturing Co., Ltd, and Omron Corp. incorporate the infringing MVTec machine vision software and/or machine vision systems, and are then imported, sold for importation, and/or sold after importation to U.S. customers.  Cognex also alleges that MVTec sells for importation and/or sells after importation its machine vision software and systems to U.S. entities such as Resolution Technology, Inc., Subtechnique, Inc, or Visics Corp. that incorporate such software and systems into U.S. manufacturing equipment.

系爭產品

被告公司名稱

被控原因

HALCON

Version 8.0

MVTec

系爭產品為該公司產品

• Zoller GmbH
• Fuji Machine Manufacturing Co., Ltd
• Omron Corp.

替MVTec在海外生產製造與HALCON有關之產品

• Resolution Technology, Inc.
• Subtechnique, Inc.
• Visics Corp.

MVTec將HALCON相關產品販賣給左列的廠商作為進一步使用或銷售

專利名稱

應用領域

U.S. 7,016,539
U.S. 7,065,262

Identifying an object and determining the object’s ‘pose’ in the image using so-called geometric matching.” 

U.S. 6,959,112

A method for determining the presence of an object of interest in an image when a portion of the object falls outside the boundary of the image, as sometimes occurs.”