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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2005
Yoshihiro Akiyama, Tokyo, JP;
Yong Yang, Tokyo, JP;
Sakie Akiyama, Tokyo, JP;
Saki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An appearance inspection apparatus for inspecting a board is provided with multiple imaging units for capturing respective images of the board. Multiple slave personal computers respectively provided for the multiple imaging units inspect the board by referring to data of images of the board captured by the respective imaging units. Each of the multiple slave personal computers transmits, to other slave personal computers, shared data that are necessary for inspection by other slave personal computers. The shared data is acquired by each of the slave personal computers from data of an image of the inspection piece captured by an associated imaging unit. Each of the slave personal computers inspects an appearance of the board by referring to the shared data received from another slave personal computer.