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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2002
Masayuki Arase, Saga, JP;
Takayuki Hatase, Fukuoka, JP;
Masayuki Arase, Saga, JP;
Takayuki Hatase, Fukuoka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for mounting electronic parts and a method of mounting electronic parts capable of effectively performing image capturing at the time of position recognition of the electronic parts. In the apparatus, when images of electronic parts are taken for position recognition of the parts in the mounting of a plurality of the electronic parts held by a mounting head on a circuit board, it is adapted such that pixel signals are output only from specific necessary pixels. More specifically, pixel selecting information for allowing image signals to be selectively output from a plurality of specific pixels of a photodetecting section () of a CMOS area sensor is generated based on mounting schedule data (C) related to a mounting sequence of the electronic parts and part data of the electronic parts stored in data storage (). A pixel selector () is operated in accordance with the pixel selecting information, and thus the image signals are output from the selected specific pixels.