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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2023
Keyence Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Zhuoli Sun, Osaka, JP;
Satoshi Obuse, Osaka, JP;
KEYENCE CORPORATION, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An industrial camera includes an electric zoom optical system, an imaging unit generating a captured image with a number of pixels larger than a number of pixels of an inspection target image, an image generation unit executing downscaling a captured image corresponding to an output region of the imaging unit, an interface unit receiving designation of a zoom magnification, and a calculation unit calculating an optical magnification of optical zooming and a magnification of the downscaling based on the zoom magnification. When the zoom magnification is smaller than or equal to a predetermined magnification, an inspection target image is generated by downscaling a captured image at a scaling magnification calculated based on the zoom magnification. When the zoom magnification is larger than the predetermined magnification, the zoom optical system is driven at the optical magnification calculated based on the zoom magnification to generate an inspection target image.