New Patent for Auto-Generated LabVIEW Code

[SteveChandler]

Apparently National Instruments has been up to some interesting things. Here is a link to an article I found about a new patent for a "system and method for programmatically generating a graphical program based on a sequence of motion control, machine vision, and data acquisition (DAQ) operations."

Did it just get easier to write LabVIEW? I can't wait to see what the generated code looks like.

[Ben]

Not reading the link I'm thinking...

What now, we are going to dance infront of it?

For those of us that carry a little extra baggage, will that introduce jitter in RT apps?

Ben

[Dennis_Knutson]

Pretty sure we've seen the generated code from Vision Assistant, DAQ Assistant, etc.The patent was applied for in 2006.

[SteveChandler]

I have never used any of those tools. I don't even use DAQ. I'm just a LabVIEW only guy with a bunch of GPIB instruments.

I was checking one of my stocks (woo hoo!) when I saw the news release. I thought it was really cool and didn't realize it that it is already productized. But as long as it takes to get a patent I should not have been surprised.

So what does the code look like? Does VI analyzer like it?

[Darin.K]

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Steve Chandler wrote:

So what does the code look like? Does VI analyzer like it?

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Posted by Darren here.  He claims it is auto-generated, but I have poked around vi.lib enough to be dubious...

[SteveChandler]

Ouch!

[Dennis_Knutson]

And this is what the Instrument I/O Assistant can generate.

[Matthew_Kelton]

Perhaps I misunderstood/misheard the keynote that morning of NI week way back in 1999 or 2000, when I first saw some of this demonstrated.  It was with Vision Assistant (or what was to become Vision Assistant).

I sat in awe as the demonstrator basically had a GUI that allowed him to adjust his image, then clicked a button and had the LabVIEW code automatically generated for him.  During this demo, the speaker spoke about LabVIEW being able to do this and we being able to send a file (text/binary/who knows) that would create a LabVIEW VI for someone.  I don't know why someone wouldn't just send the VI, but the thought of having a script to geenrate LabVIEW code was cool.  When I was first introduced to scripting, I figured this must be the magic under the hood, but it sure didn't sound like the magic box NI presented.  Snippets come pretty close now, though.  JKI's april fool joke seemed pretty close, too.

[RayFarmer]

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@Ben wrote:

What now, we are going to dance infront of it?

For those of us that carry a little extra baggage, will that introduce jitter in RT apps?

Ben

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Maybe using a Kinect box we can all weave about in front of the screen and generate our code....lose a few pounds (kilos) at the same time

[aeastet]

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@Ray Farmer wrote:

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@Ben wrote:

What now, we are going to dance infront of it?

For those of us that carry a little extra baggage, will that introduce jitter in RT apps?

Ben

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Maybe using a Kinect box we can all weave about in front of the screen and generate our code....lose a few pounds (kilos) at the same time

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Sounds like a good plan for those of us that spend a lot of time in front of the computer.