Omron Corporation

Masanori Sato

Toyoo Iida

Tomoki Ishizawa

Hitoshi Oba

Toshimichi Masaki

An image recording system includes first imaging means for imaging operations of manufacturing equipment in a production line, second imaging means arranged downstream from the manufacturing equipment for imaging articles processed by the manufacturing equipment, inspection means for inspecting the processed articles based on image data outputted from the second imaging means, and an image recording apparatus for acquiring data outputted from the first imaging means and the inspection means, wherein the image recording apparatus is equipped with a temporary storage portion for temporarily storing image data from the imaging means, storage means, and control means for reading out any desired interval from the image data stored a prescribed time interval portion in the past in the temporary storage portion and storing such read out interval when a signal based on inspection results outputted from the inspection means is received.

Image recording apparatus and image recording system

An image recording apparatus for recording image data of an inspection object and inspection data corresponding to inspection results outputted at their own respective timings from an inspection apparatus which judges quality by an image recognition process is equipped with a temporary storage portion for temporarily storing the image data and the inspection data, a storage device, and a control portion for synchronizing the image data and the inspection data and storing the synchronized image data and inspection data in the storage device based on relative position data from a prescribed signal sent from the inspection apparatus, wherein the control portion accesses the temporary storage portion to acquire previous data for at least the prescribed signal.

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Kyoto, Japan

Masanori Sato