Laser Cutout Support Judgment for Rising Workpieces

The patent divides the supports into two categories: supports aligned in a straight line (first supports) and supports not aligned in a straight line (second supports). The judgment unit performs rising judgment separately for each category, applying different judgment logic to each segment. This segmentation allows the system to maintain ease of operation for aligned supports while improving accuracy by identifying cases where non-aligned supports indicate potential rising issues.

The patent applies different judgment criteria to different locations or configurations of supports. Specifically, when supports are aligned in a straight line, a simpler judgment method is used, whereas when supports are not aligned in a straight line, a more stringent judgment criterion is applied. This local differentiation of judgment quality improves overall accuracy while maintaining operational simplicity for standard cases.

The patent extracts and identifies only the outermost supports (supports at the outer edge of the cutout region) as the critical supports for rising judgment. By taking out these specific supports from the complete set of all supports, the system reduces the number of supports that need to be processed while still maintaining comprehensive judgment reliability, as the outermost supports are the most critical for detecting component rising.

Instead of performing exhaustive analysis on all supports, the patent applies partial action by focusing judgment only on the outermost supports. This selective approach performs sufficient analysis on the critical subset of supports that matter most for rising detection, thereby reducing processing load while maintaining adequate judgment reliability.