Industrial Technology Research Institute

Ting-Yao Chen

Jia-Ming Shyu

Inn-Ming Chen

Han-Chieh Chang

Yunghsueh Chao

Hsien-Yei Chen

Chung C Ku

A real-time apparatus for detecting surface defects on a moving object under test comprises a high-frequency linear light source for generating linear light which is focused on a line position of the tested object, a linear CCD (charge coupled device) camera for scanning the line position and generating an image signal, an image-signal processing device for converting the analog image signal to digital image signal and further converting the digital signal to a HIGH or a LOW signal, a combination of the HIGH and LOW signals constituting constituting binary image data in the form of binary pulses, an image-storing circuit connected to the image-signal processing circuit for storing the binary image data, a defect-detecting unit for detecting if an area unit has a valid defect which meets one of a set of predetermined defect patterns or detecting statistical defects which are not valid defects but a plurality of small defects combined together still counted as defects, and a defect detecting statistic unit connected to the image-storing circuit for calculating a total amount of defect, and the area and location of each defect by a well-known connectivity analyzation process.

Real-time apparatus for detecting surface defects on objects

A method and apparatus is provided for controlling the laser cutting of a laser beam machine by image processing techniques. A photographing device is provided to photograph a pattern or material object and to obtain a pattern image. According to the pattern, an article is cut by the laser beam machine. The photographed pattern image is digitized and stored in an image processing card. In turn, by using image processing techniques, the digitized pattern image is thresholded, and contours and/or skeletons are extracted therefrom. Each of the extracted contours and/or skeletons is linked point by point to form a series of characteristic points, and the linked lines are stored in a memory device of a microcomputer. The linked lines are replaced by a plurality of vector points in a curve approximation process, and the vector points for each linked line form a series of line vector data. The sequence of all of the series of line vector data is rearranged from the innermost line to the outermost line, and the rearranged series of line vector data are converted into a computer numerical control (CNC) program which is in turn entered into a CNC device to control the cutting paths of the laser beam machine.

Method and apparatus for controlling laser cutting by image processing

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Ting-Yao Chen