How to Coordinate system in vision builder?

Hello,
I'm trying to perform a pattern matching in 8bit images but my image is not always in the same place so I need to stablish coordinates to analize the image, I'm using vision builder 6.1, does anybody have an example of how to stablish coordinates in vision builder?
Thanks in advance,
Ray

Ray-
Unforutunately, Vision Builder does not support coordinate systems. To do Coodinate systems, you will eiter need to port the code to LabVIEW and use the Vision Toolkit, or else upgrade to Vision Builder for Automated Inspection.

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