Measurement-data collecting apparatus and computer program
AssigneeMitutoyo Corporation
InventorShinsaku Abe
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Abstract
A measurement-data collecting apparatus configured to read a measurement value from a measurement result displayed on a measurement tool and easily collect measurement data irrespective of whether the measurement tool is an analog measurement tool or a digital measurement tool is provided. The measurement-data collecting apparatus of the present invention includes an image capturing unit configured to capture image of an exterior view of a target measurement tool on which a measurement result is displayed and a measurement-value reading unit configured to read a measurement value from an exterior view image of the target measurement tool imaged by the image capturing unit.
Claims8
A measurement-data collecting apparatus comprising:
- an image capturing unit configured to capture image of an exterior view of a target measurement tool on which a measurement result is displayed;
- a tool-specifying-information storing unit configured to store tool specifying information, which is a three-dimensional shape model for each of types of measurement tools;
- a tool specifying unit configured to compare the exterior view image of the target measurement tool and the tool specifying information using a plurality of exterior view images from a plurality of viewpoints extractable from the three-dimensional shape model and specify a type of the target measurement tool;
- a reading-method storing unit configured to store measurement-value reading methods for reading a measurement value from the exterior view image for each of the types of the measurement tools;
- a reading-method specifying unit configured to specify, referring to the reading-method storing unit, a measurement-value reading method corresponding to the type of the target measurement tool specified by the tool specifying unit;
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- a processor and a memory that stores an instruction, wherein upon execution of the instruction, the processor operates as a measurement-value reading unit configured to read a measurement value from an exterior view image of the target measurement tool captured by the image capturing unit with the measurement-value reading method specified by the reading-method specifying unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.