Keyence Corporation

Naoya Uchiyama

Yosuke Shiota

Hidetoshi Morimoto

A user can easily execute image processing from setting to data utilization without acquiring programming skills. An inspection setting device includes: a screen generation unit that generates a display screen displaying a palette region in which a plurality of tools including an imaging setting tool, a positioning setting tool, an inspection setting tool, and an output tool can be arranged and a work sheet region in which data related to the plurality of tools is referred to and calculated; and an input unit that receives selection of a tool arranged on the palette region and receives a setting related to input, reference, or calculation of data related to the selected tool via the work sheet region.

Inspection setting device

A movement command to move an end effector to a plurality of predetermined positions is transmitted to a robot controller so as to change a relative position of a target, which becomes an imaging target, with respect to an imaging device. First coordinate values are acquired, the values being each of position coordinates of the end effector having moved in accordance with the movement command, and an image of the target is captured at each movement destination, to which the end effector has moved. Second coordinate values being position coordinates of the target are detected based on the image of the target captured at each movement destination, and a conversion rule between both of the coordinates is calculated based on the first coordinate values and the second coordinate values.

Image processing apparatus, image processing system, image processing method, and computer program

There is provided an image processing apparatus, which are capable of controlling a motion of a robot with high accuracy without coding a complex robot motion control program point by point. First coordinate values being each of position coordinates of movement destinations of an end effector of a robot are acquired. Second coordinate values being position coordinates of a target are detected based on an image of the target captured at each of the movement destinations. Selections of a plurality of operations which a robot controller is made to execute are accepted out of a plurality of operations including at least an operation of moving the end effector to the first coordinate values or an operation of moving the end effector to the second coordinate values, to accept a setting of an execution sequence of the plurality of operations the selections of which have been accepted.

Inputs of a plurality of images constituting a group of images of items regarded as non-defective items are previously accepted and stored, and a defect threshold for detecting a defective portion of an inspection object is set based on the plurality of stored images. A defect amount to be compared with a determination threshold for making a non-defective/defective determination on the inspection object is calculated with respect to each of the plurality of stored images based on the set defective threshold, and whether or not each of the calculated defect amounts is an outlier is tested by use of at least one of a parametric technique and a non-parametric technique. Outlier information for specifying an image whose defect amount has been tested to be the outlier is displayed and outputted.

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Osaka, Japan

Naoya Uchiyama