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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2014
Keyence Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Kazuhito Saeki, Osaka, JP;
Keyence Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A head section includes: a light projecting part for projecting incident light as structured illumination of a predetermined projection pattern; the image capturing part for acquiring reflected light that is projected by the light projecting part and reflected on an inspection target, to capture a plurality of pattern projected images; a distance image generating part capable of generating a distance image based on the plurality of pattern projected images captured in the image capturing part; a head-side storage part for holding the distance image generated in the distance image generating part; and a head-side communication part for transmitting the distance image held in the storage part to the controller section. The controller section includes: a controller-side communication part for communicating with the head-side communication part; and an inspection executing part for executing predetermined inspection processing on the distance image received in the controller-side communication part.