Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Fumitoshi Yoshimura

Masao Yamazaki

Junichi Naemura

Kenzo Nozaki

Junji Ogawa

An image recognition apparatus includes a light source including a plurality of light emitting diodes having different wavelengths, for illuminating an object, a driver for selectively operating the light emitting diodes and adjusting the brightness thereof, an image pick-up device for photoelectrically transferring the light reflected from the object into an image signal, and an image decision device for comparing a reference image signal with the image signal obtained by the image pick-up device and then deciding whether an image corresponding to the obtained image signal is clearer than an image corresponding to the reference image signal, the image decision device making the driver sequentially operates the light emitting diodes and change the brightness thereof in such a manner that the image corresponding to the image signal is clearer than the image corresponding to the reference image signal.

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Sakurai, Japan

Fumitoshi Yoshimura