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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2012
Fumihiko Koshimizu, Zama, JP;
Fumihiko Koshimizu, Zama, JP;
MITUTOYO CORPORATION, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A hardness tester having an image capturer capturing an indentation image, a data memory, an automatic size-scanning program scanning an indentation size, and a hardness calculation program includes: an identification information providing program providing image data with test specimen identification information and indentation identification information; a memory control program having the image data associated with the identification information stored; a specifying program specifying, when a scanning error occurs, identification information of image data in which the scanning error has occurred; an obtaining program obtaining the image data from the data memory based on the specified identification information; and a re-scanner (a display, an operator, and a manual size-calculation program) re-scanning an indentation size from the obtained image data.