Developer's Aside
We received several ale

We have received several shout-outs from visitors, phone calls and e-mails. I am able to write what I want because of my background with FlexInspector. I am also able to write what I want to write because of my background with FlexInspector.

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Developer's Aside
sell on sale, buy on sale

In all business, be pleased with what you sell and pleased with what you buy. There is no such thing as 100 points in image processing inspection. On the contrary, a score of 70 is good. In such a situation, are you able to explain the problem to the "buyer"? Are you able to explain to them that "anything is possible" and [...]...

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Developer's Aside
Why wasn't there one before?"

When I explain FlexInspector's features in a nutshell, I am almost certain to be asked. "Why didn't we have it before?" And so they do. The idea is simple and the logic is not unreasonable. It's obvious if you ask me. But I've never seen anything like it [...].

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Developer's Aside
From a field worker's perspective

I think the important point in "image processing inspection" is whether or not it can be thought of from the "viewpoint of the on-site worker". In that light, I think that "simplicity" is more important than anything else. If it is not simple, it is impossible to understand what is going on and to make adjustments [...].

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Now under development
Support for HT-Penitum4

FlexInspector's support for HT (HyperThreading)-Pentium4 is now available. FlexInspector is based on Parallel-HALCON technology for multi-CPU support, and the board [...].

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Developer's Aside
Akitsugu Maebayashi

I saw "More Darwin", a performance by Tadasu Takamine with the participation of Akitsugu Maebayashi. Mr. Akitsugu Maebayashi was in charge of the "interactive sound system" for this piece. In fact, this is the fourth time I have assisted him in the "image sensing" part of his work. This time [...].

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Developer's Aside
The problems facing the industry."

The other day, I received a document from a technical information magazine that listed five problems facing the machine vision industry in Japan. One of them was that "there are not enough opportunities to hear the real voices of users. To be honest, [...]...

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Developer's Aside
Why is a "defect" a "defect"?

Why is a "defect" determined to be a "defect" in visual inspection? How can a defect be determined to be "defective" even if neither the binarization level nor the dimensional tolerance is known? One reason is "because it is different from usual. It looks the same as other good products [...].

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Developer's Aside
Make what you want to use yourself.

In a sense, the development of FlexInspector is a hobby. If I find it difficult to use, I immediately revise the GUI. If I hear from users that they want a feature like this, I add it. We experiment and [...].

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For your consideration
All on-site visual inspection equipment...

One of our sales representatives was asked by a customer, "What is the difference between AG50V2 and FlexInspectorBasic? What is the difference between "AG50V2" and "FlexInspectorBasic"? Incidentally, the AG50V2 is Matsushita's top-of-the-line imaging equipment. The decisive difference is that the "AG50 [...]...

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