Component assembly inspection method and component assembly inspection apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsNaoki Koike, Kimihiro Wakabayashi
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Abstract
A component assembly inspection method includes taking an image of a first light spot group possessed by a first component with a camera after the first component is assembled in a second component, the first light spot group including plural light spots. The method further includes recognizing a position and an attitude of the first component based on a light image that is on the image taken with the camera and represents each of the light spots of the first light spot group; and determining quality of an assembly state of the first component in the second component based on the position and attitude of the first component.
Claims16
A component assembly inspection method comprising:
- taking an image of a first light spot group possessed by a first component with a camera after the first component is assembled in a second component, the first light spot group including a plurality of light spots;
- recognizing a position and an attitude of the first component based on a light image that is on the image taken with the camera and represents each of the light spots of the first light spot group;
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- determining quality of an assembly state of the first component in the second component based on the position and attitude of the first component.
A component assembly inspection apparatus comprising:
- a camera;
- an imaging control unit that causes the camera to take an image of a first light spot group possessed by a first component after the first component is assembled in a second component, the first light spot group including a plurality of light spots;
- a position and attitude recognizing unit that recognizes a position and an attitude of the first component based on a light image that is on the image taken with the camera and represents each of the light spots of the first light spot group;
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- a quality determining unit that determines quality of an assembly state of the first component in the second component based on the position and attitude of the first component recognized by the position and attitude recognizing unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.