摘要 |
The method and the arrangement according to the invention for monitorin g and controlling processes in the field of the further processing of products of a printing machine into finished printed products such as newspapers, magazines, and similar items is based on a functional cross-linking of a plurality of image processing modules (1.1 to 1.5). In each of the image processing modules clocked comparing steps are carried out in which actual images recorded by at least on image recording device (2) are compared with reference images stored in the image processing modules and control signals are generated according to the result of the comparison and according to the momentary operating state of the image processing module. Each image processing module comprises in and outputs (Ii, Oi) for images and in- and outputs (I1 to I5, O1 and O2) for control signals. Through the functional cross-linking of the image processing modules (1.1 to 1.5) via their in- and outputs the operating state and/or the stored reference image of every image processing module becomes changeable by control signals from other image processing modules and/or by control signals generated by the module itself. Therefore a process is not only monitored by the inventive method but c an also be controlled by it.
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