Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Sachi Minami

Masashi Nishiyama

Yojiro Tonouchi

Hisayoshi Fukai

Hidemitsu Hohki

Providing an equipment manufacture supporting technique in which a plurality of departments that cooperate with one another can unify management of components constituting equipment. An equipment manufacture supporting apparatus including: a component information receiving unit that receives discrimination information and image information of each of components constituting equipment; an electronic code giving unit that gives an electronic code corresponding to the discrimination information; a component information registering unit that links and registers mutually connected components; an image receiving unit that receives imaged data of a plurality of components mounted on the equipment; an electronic code recognizing unit that recognizes the electronic codes respectively marked on the plurality of components, from the imaged data; and a connection determining unit that determines whether a connection relation of the plurality of components mounted on the equipment is right or wrong, on a basis of the electronic codes recognized from the imaged data.

Equipment manufacture supporting apparatus, equipment manufacture supporting method, and storage medium for equipment manufacture supporting program

According to an embodiment, a reader includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire an image containing a code; a detecting unit configured to detect a plurality of local regions containing parts of the code from the image; an integrating unit configured to integrate the local regions to obtain an integrated region; and a reading unit configured to read the code on the integrated region.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Sachi Minami