| 摘要 |
A method and an apparatus for inspecting a figure inscribed on curved surface (2a/3a) of an article (1) is disclosed. The article under inspection (1) is rotated at pre-set angular increments for dividing the figure inscribed on the curved surface (2a/3a) of the article into plural fractions and fetching the picture information from plural directions. The picture information of the fractional pictures is synthesized into picture information for one full-format picture based on which the figure inscribed on the curved surface of the article (1) under inspection is inspected. Decision on acceptability may be given automatically and quantitatively as compared to the conventional functional inspection. That is, the inspection may be performed without regard to the difference in skill from one operator to another. In addition, the operator may be relieved from an monotonous inspecting operation, while the cost in manpower may be saved. By sorting the articles into good and no-good ones based on the results of inspection of the figures, the inspection of the articles and sorting into good and no-good articles may be performed automatically for saving the manpower. In addition, by recognizing the characters or symbols inscribed on the curved surface of the article under inspection one by one based on the information of the synthesized fullformat picture, and by comparing the character string consisting of the recognized characters or symbols to a pre-set control character string, the decision on acceptability can be given accurately. <IMAGE> |
