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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2014
Applicant:
Ishida Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ishida Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G01V 5/00 (2006.01); B65B 65/08 (2006.01); G01N 23/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 5/0016 (2013.01); B65B 65/08 (2013.01); G01N 23/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
An inspection device is provided that is capable of counting the number of contained objects of a product in which objects each having a predetermined shape are contained in a package in an overlapping manner. An inspection deviceincludes a total-number calculatorthat estimates a total mass of a plurality of objects based on grayscale information on a transmission image and calculates the total number of objects by dividing the total mass estimated by a mass of one object.