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Granted Patent B1
US 12,273,612 · App. 18/858,729 · Granted Apr 8, 2025

Test system

Inventors: Yuhei Hayashi (Moriyama, JP); Jun Mitsudo (Moriyama, JP)
Assignee: Leimac Ltd.
H04N23/56H04N23/95G01N2021/8838
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Patent No.
US 12,273,612
App. No.
18/858,729
Granted
Apr 8, 2025
Kind
B1
Abstract

The disclosed test system includes: a lighting apparatus which emits light from multiple light-emitting elements to illuminate a product to be inspected; a lighting controller which divides the light-emitting elements into N number of areas, and sequentially supplies current to emit light in each lighting period; a camera which sequentially captures images of the product in an image-capturing period synchronizing with the lighting period; a test system control device; a first wiring cable which supplies DC power from the camera to the light controller; and a second wiring cable which supplies DC power from the test system control device to the camera. N number of images captured by the camera are reconstructed to one inspection image through inter-image calculation or inter-pixel calculation. The disclosed system simplifies wiring.

Claims (18)

1. A test system, comprising:

a lighting apparatus which includes a plurality of light-emitting elements, and which emits light from the plurality of light-emitting elements so as to light a product that is to be inspected;

a lighting controller which divides the plurality of light-emitting elements into N number of areas with N being a natural number that is 2 or more, and which sequentially supplies current to each of the N number of areas so as to emit light in each lighting period;

a camera which sequentially captures images of the product in an image-capturing period synchronized with the lighting period;

a test system control device;

a first wiring cable which supplies DC power from the camera to the lighting controller or from the lighting controller to the camera; and

a second wiring cable which supplies DC power from the test system control device to the camera or from the test system control device to the lighting controller, wherein

N number of images captured by the camera are reconstructed to one inspection image in the test system control device or in the camera, through inter-image calculation, or through inter-image calculation and inter-pixel calculation.

2. The test system according to claim 1 , wherein the inter-image calculation is a calculation, for each pixel, of selecting a brightness value of one image out of the N number of images, or selecting and adding brightness values of a plurality of images out of the N number of images, or is a calculation of selecting and averaging brightness values of a plurality of the images out of the N number of images.

3. The test system according to claim 1 , wherein

the first wiring cable supplies the DC power from the camera to the lighting controller and transmits a signal to control the lighting period, and

the second wiring cable supplies the DC power from the test system control device to the camera and transmits a signal to control the image-capturing period.

4. The test system according to claim 1 , wherein

the first wiring cable supplies the DC power from the lighting controller to the camera and transmits a signal to control the image-capturing period, and

the second wiring cable supplies the DC power from the test system control device to the lighting controller and transmits a signal to control the lighting period.

5. The test system according to claim 1 , wherein

the lighting apparatus includes red, green and blue light-emitting elements for each of the N number of areas, and

the lighting controller sequentially supplies current to the light-emitting elements having a first color out of the red, green and blue in each of the N number of areas to emit the light in the lighting period, then sequentially supplies current to the light-emitting elements having a second color, other than the first color, in each of the N number of areas to emit the light in the lighting period, and then sequentially supplies current to the light-emitting elements having a third color, other than the first color and the second color, in each of the N number of areas to emit the light in the lighting period.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 21, 2024
From: HAYASHI, YUHEI; MITSUDO, JUN
To: LEIMAC LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-093359 · Jun 8, 2022 · national
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