640 results about "Image Inspection" patented technology

Disclosed herein are a wireless terminal-interoperable home network system and a method for controlling the same. A home server is linked with a security device and camera installed in a building to, when the security device senses entrance/exit of an outsider into/from the building, acquire an internal image of the building from the camera and send the acquired image to a wireless terminal of a user to enable the user to monitor the internal situation of the building in real time. The user can access the home server over a wireless communication network from a remote place outside of the building without separate access to the Internet to receive the internal image of the building and check the internal situation of the building on the basis of the received internal image, resulting in an increase in convenience of use.

A pattern inspection apparatus is used for inspecting a pattern, such as semiconductor integrated circuit (LSI), liquid crystal panel, and a photomask by using an image of the pattern to-be-inspected and design data for fabricating the pattern to-be-inspected. The pattern inspection apparatus includes a reference pattern generation device for generating a reference pattern represented by one or more lines from design data, an image generation device for generating the image of the pattern to-be-inspected, a detecting device for detecting an edge of the image of the pattern to-be-inspected, and an inspection device for inspecting the pattern to-be-inspected by comparing the edge of the image of the pattern to-be-inspected with the one or more lines of the reference pattern.

An image-type intubation-aiding device comprises a small-size image sensor and a light source module both placed into an endotracheal tube to help doctors with quick intubation. Light from light emission devices in the light source module passes through a transparent housing and is reflected by a target and then focused. The optical signal is converted into a digital or analog electric signal by the image sensor for displaying on a display device after processing. Doctors can thus be helped to quickly find the position of trachea, keep an appropriate distance from a patient for reducing the possibility of infection, and lower the medical treatment cost. Disposable products are available to avoid the problem of infection. The intubation-aiding device can be used as an electronic surgical image examination instrument for penetration into a body. Moreover, a light source with tunable wavelengths can be used to increase the spot ratio of nidus.

An image inspection apparatus includes: an imaging section for capturing an image of a workpiece from a certain direction; an illumination section for illuminating the workpiece from different directions at least three times; an illumination controlling section for sequentially turning on the illumination sections one by one; an imaging generating section for driving the imaging section to generate a plurality of images; a normal vector calculating section for calculating a normal vector with respect to the surface of the workpiece at each of pixels by use of a pixel value of each of pixels having a corresponding relation among the plurality of images; and a contour image generating section for performing differential processing in an X-direction and a Y-direction on the calculated normal vector at each of the pixels, to generate a contour image that shows a contour of inclination of the surface of the workpiece.

An apparatus for verifying an inspection result includes an inspection result obtaining unit to obtain inspection result indicating defect amount and defect position in a scanned image, from an inspection result of defect judgment of the scanned image with respect to an inspection reference image, the defect judgment being performed through dividing at least one of the scanned image and the inspection reference image and conducting position matching of the scanned image and inspection reference image; and a verification unit to count defect amount occurring to the scanned image, to determine whether a defect pattern occurring to the scanned image matches a pre-set condition corresponding to a false detection condition causable by failure of the position matching, and to determine that defect occurring to the scanned image is a false detection when the counted defect amount is a threshold or more, and the defect pattern matches the false detection condition.

A prepress system comprises a raster image processor for developing first print image data to display resolution to create first raster image data, and for developing second print image data to the display resolution to create second raster image data. A plate image inspection processor executes a plate image inspection process by comparing the first and second raster image data, and displays on a display device the result of the plate image inspection process.

A digital image processing method for a centralized multi-mode medical tongue image inspection system, comprising the steps of: forming at least one service unit (300) for performing tongue record (220) construction; forming a processing unit (320) for tongue record inspection (308); and providing communication links (330) between the service units and the processing unit.

A method for inspecting a wafer includes telecentrically illuminating, with a radiation source, a region of the wafer surface to be inspected. An image of wafer region is acquired using a camera. The wafer region is inspected using the acquired image.

Acquired mask data of a defect portion is sent to a simulated repair circuit 300 to be simulated. The simulation of the acquired mask data 204 is returned to the mask inspection results 205 and thereafter sent to a wafer transfer simulator 400 along with a reference image at the corresponding portion. A wafer transfer image estimated by the wafer transfer simulator 400 is sent to a comparing circuit 301. When it is determined that there is a defect in the comparing circuit 301, the coordinates and the wafer transfer image which is a basis for the defect determination are stored as transfer image inspection results 206. The mask inspection results 205 and the transfer image inspection result 206 are then sent to the review device 500.

An image inspection system inspects quality of image prepared from source image data by an image forming apparatus. The image inspection system includes a scanner, a storage unit, an inspection color designating unit, an inspection area determination unit, a reference color extraction unit, an inspection color extraction unit, and an image quality judgment unit. The scanner scans reference and inspection document to prepare reference and inspection image data. The inspection color designating unit designates an inspection color. The inspection area determination unit extracts an inspection area having the inspection color from the source image data. The reference color extraction unit extracts an image having first-extracted-color from the reference image data. The inspection color extraction unit extracts an image having a second-extracted-color from the inspection image data. The image quality judgment unit compares the first and second-extracted-colors to determine image quality of the inspection document image.

A reference image and a target image for image inspection are displayed side by side in a monitor. The reference image is taken in approximately identical shooting condition to the target image for the image inspection, and corrected with a reference correction parameter. The reference correction parameter and the reference image are stored in a memory. The target image for the image inspection is corrected with the reference correction parameter. The operator determines image quality while comparing the reference image to the target image for the image inspection. When the image quality is unsatisfactory, the target image for the image inspection is corrected. When the correction parameter is changed during the image correction, the changed correction parameter is used for correcting the next image instead of the reference correction parameter.

An image inspection apparatus for inspecting a scanned image of an output image includes an inspection reference image generator to generate an inspection reference image; an image inspection unit to determine a defect by comparing a difference between the inspection reference image and the scanned image with a threshold; a threshold determiner to determine the threshold; and a defect range determiner to determine a range of defect level of a plurality of artificial defects. Based on a difference computed for a defect selected from the plurality of artificial defects, the threshold determiner determines a threshold to be compared with the difference of the selected defect. The defect range determiner conducts a defect determination for the scanned image at the upper and lower limits for a threshold to determine a range of defect level of the plurality of artificial defects.

A method for detecting phase features or phase defects on photomasks for optical lithography is described. The asymmetric imaging behavior through focus of defects or features with a phase other than 0° or 180° is used to distinguish them from other features on the mask. The mask is inspected at equally spaced positions about an optimum focus in both positive and negative directions. The images are subtracted from one another to produce a differential image of the mask. While opaque features as well as transmitting features at 0° and 180° behave identically at positive and negative defocus, thus leading to a zero-valued differential image, the focus asymmetry of phase defects and features produces a non-zero differential image from which these phase defects and features can be located. By comparing the locations on the mask for which a non-zero differential image is obtained with the designed data for the mask, the phase defects can be sorted from the phase features and the absence of phase features can be detected. Additional image processing can be applied to verify the integrity of the phase features. The differential image inspection technique can be implemented on existing optical inspection tools by employing a two-pass inspection performed at positive and negative defocus in sequence. In addition, a new apparatus with parallel inspection optics is described for inspecting the mask at positive and negative focus simultaneously.

An image inspection device to automate and simplify inspection of an output image. A paper discharge tray of a printer is a different color from paper. A CCD camera is disposed above a paper discharge portion of the printer, at which paper is discharged, and can capture the whole upper face of the paper discharge tray. When, directly after a state in which there is no paper on the paper discharge tray, a print job is received and a first print-processed sheet is outputted to the paper discharge tray, a CPU controls the CCD camera to capture the paper discharge tray in this state. Captured image data including the paper is acquired, corrections are applied to the captured image data and to original image data by image processing, and image characteristics thereof are made substantially the same. Thereafter, the outputted image is inspected by comparison of the two data sets.

An image checking device checks a printed image printed out on a printing medium. The image checking device includes a data acquiring unit that acquires checking-image data, original reference image data input to an image forming device, and, from an attribute-information storage unit of the image forming device, attribute information about a printing medium; a correction-parameter storage unit that stores therein a correction parameter corresponding to the attribute information; an image generating unit that reads, from the correction-parameter storage unit, a correction parameter corresponding to the attribute information, corrects the original reference image data by using the correction parameter, and generates corrected reference image data; and an image checking unit that compares the checking-image data with the corrected reference image data by using a pre-set value to determine the degree of matching between the checking-image data and the corrected reference image data, thereby performing image checking on the printed image.

A distributed architecture allows for decoupling of mammographic image acquisition and review, thereby enabling more efficient use of resources and enhanced processing. In one embodiment, the system (100) includes a number of image acquisition stations (102) and a number of image review stations (110) all associated with a central server (104). The server (104) is operative to access an image repository (106), a patient information data base (108) and a number of DICOM tools (112). The invention allows for more efficient and/or more convenient use of the image acquisition equipment and image processing stations. Moreover, the distributed architecture including the central image repository provides certain processing and analysis advantages. The invention also provides certain processing and workflow enhancements that allow for a more full realization of potential digital mammography advantages.

The method comprises a first step (S1 in FIG. 1) of obtaining a transmission image, a second step (S2) of applying a quadratic differential filter to the transmission image, thereby to emphasize a part of large luminance change as a quadratic differential filter image, a third step (S3) of binarizing the quadratic differential filter image with a predetermined threshold value, and then storing the resulting binarized image, a fourth step (S4) of binarizing the transmission image with another predetermined threshold value, and then storing the resulting binarized image, a fifth step (S5) of performing the measurement of binary feature quantities for the binarized image stored at the third step (S3) and the binarized image stored at the fourth step (S4), and a sixth step (S6) of deciding the quality of the object to-be-inspected from the binary feature quantities.

An apparatus, system, method, and non-transitory recording medium storing an image inspection control program, each of which is capable of inspecting a printed image are provided. While generating an inspection image to be used for inspecting a read image obtained by reading the printed image, attribute data indicating, for each pixel in the inspection image, whether the pixel belongs to drawing data in the inspection image is generated. The attribute data is used to process inspection of the read image based on comparison between the read image and the inspection image.

An image inspecting device includes: an image inspection unit that inspects a read image obtained by reading an image formed by an image formation output, based on threshold information including one or more types of thresholds and a difference image indicating a difference between the read image and a reference image generated based on print data of the image formation output, and specifies a defect portion; and a screen information generation unit that generates and outputs threshold adjustment screen information including a threshold image indicating each value of the thresholds and an inspection result image indicating an inspection result of the defect portion, and threshold adjustment result screen information including a threshold image and a reinspection result image using adjusted threshold information; and a threshold information changing unit that changes the threshold information to the adjusted threshold information based on a threshold information change input.

The present invention aims to effectively prevent spoofing in authentication and maintain convenience of the user. In a face authentication unit of the portable telephone, the face image checking part checks the face image of the person to be authenticated, which is acquired by a face image acquiring part through a photographing unit, with face feature information contained in a face feature DB of the storage unit and calculates the matching degree. A threshold value determining section determines the threshold value by searching the evaluation DB based on the position information of the own device acquired by the position information acquiring section through the GPS receiver. An authenticating section compares the matching degree calculated by the face image checking section and the threshold value determined by the threshold value determining section, and determines success and failure of the face authentication.

An apparatus for making recording media with audio code images by combining visual images converted from image information and audio code images encoded to be optically readable from audio information relating to the image information. This apparatus includes a monitor 60 for displaying composite images of visual images and audio code images. To transmit to a speaker audio signals corresponding to the audio code images displayed on the monitor 60, the apparatus has a first audio code image checking function including a pointing device 81 or keyboard 86, an audio data retriever 82, an audio reproducer 83, a speaker 84 and a controller 100, and a second audio code image checking function including the pointing device 81 or keyboard 86, audio reproducer 83, speaker 84, a reverse converter 85 and controller 100.