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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2020
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Tomohiro Matsuda, Toyota, JP;
Yutaka Sugie, Toyota, JP;
Yuichi Hirano, Nisshin, JP;
Shun Sato, Nagoya, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A component discrimination apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire image-pickup data obtained by taking an image of a component using a camera; a dividing unit configured to divide the image-pickup data into first image-pickup data and second image-pickup data so that they respectively include at least one characteristic part of the component; a specification identifying unit configured to identify a specification of the characteristic part in the first image-pickup data using the first image-pickup data, thereby identifying a type of the component; and a specification correctness determination unit configured to perform, using the second image-pickup data, correctness determination of whether or not a specification of the characteristic part in the second image-pickup data is the same as a specification of the component of the type identified by the specification identifying unit.