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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2016
Ishida Co., Ltd., Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, JP;
Yoshinori Tarumoto, Ritto, JP;
Kazuhiro Suhara, Ritto, JP;
Osamu Hirose, Ritto, JP;
Atsushi Iwai, Ritto, JP;
ISHIDA CO., LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
Ad. X-ray inspection apparatus includes a conveyance unit, an X-ray radiation unit, an X-ray detection, unit, and an image processing unit. The X-ray detection unit has a plurality of direct conversion-type X-ray detection element arrays disposed, side-by-side in rows along a direction intersecting both a conveyance direction in which an object is conveyed by the conveyance unit and a radiation direction in which X-rays are radiated by the X-ray radiation unit The image processing unit has an edge detection unit configured to carry out edge detection processing on an X-ray transmission image to generate an edge detected image, a horizontal direction gradation unit configured to carry out horizontal direction gradation processing on the edge detected image to generate a horizontal direction gradation linage, and a synthesizing unit configured to synthesize the X-ray transmission image and the horizontal direction gradation image to generate a post-processing X-ray transmission image.