Developer's Aside
From the perspective of the "user."

We are "users" in the eyes of manufacturers of cameras, lenses, and other equipment. Furthermore, as a platform for running software, we are in the position of recommending it to end users, which means that we are necessarily very selective. We place importance on the following factors: ・What kind of person is in charge of the [...].

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Could be groundbreaking.

TODAY I RECEIVED THE LATEST EDITION OF MISUMI'S "FA/INDUSTRIAL PC COMPONENTS" CATALOG. TO MY SURPRISE, IN ADDITION TO CONVENTIONAL PC COMPONENTS, THE NUMBER OF CCD CAMERAS, LENSES, AND IMAGE INPUT BOARDS HAS INCREASED. MISUMI'S PC PARTS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: ・PROCUREMENT IS EASY [...].

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Developer's Aside
About Automated Product Inspection

This is not limited to "image inspection. I believe that every "automatic inspection machine" on the market today extracts "information" from the object to be inspected in some way, and makes a judgment as to whether the "information" is as expected or not. This [...].

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Developer's Aside
This could be reality.

We received an inquiry from an electronic board mounting manufacturer, who was referred to us by a competitor who had evaluated our FlexInspector. As you can see, we are receiving more and more inquiries related to electronic circuit boards these days. However, we have to be calm and [...]...

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Developer's Aside
Fee-for-service imaging consultants

Our sales method for FlexInspector is 1) We will introduce "this kind of thing" but we will not sell it to you. (2) We lend out demo units for users to evaluate, and if they like it, they buy it. (3) We will ask users to evaluate [...].

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Developer's Aside
Image Recognition and Image Inspection

Image recognition is a technology to "extract information from an image". Character recognition, face recognition... If we extend the concept, it also includes dimensional and area measurement from images. It is achieved by setting where, how, and what information is to be extracted from an image [...].

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Developer's Aside
Standard experimental environment

Recently, one experiment and report per day is becoming our quota. We receive a wide variety of samples. If we had to select lighting for each sample, we would never make it in time. We have naturally developed a "pattern" for our experimental environment. We have had users check the [...]...

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Developer's Aside
Idle" inspection equipment

Every day we receive inquiries from a variety of sources, and surprisingly, many of them want to do something about idle inspection equipment. We can see that many companies are struggling with image inspections. The response we get is, "Handling is not a problem, but we need to do something about [...].

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Developer's Aside
"Good/good judgment on the measured value."

The concept is simple and straightforward. By sampling multiple normal values, a "normal range" is statistically determined. If it is within that range, it is normal; otherwise, it is abnormal. If it is within that range, it is normal; if not, it is abnormal. FlexInspector processes on a two-dimensional array, but [...].

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Developer's Aside
Significance of FlexInspector in the Imaging and Inspection Industry

We believe that FlexInspector's inspection method will bring about a major revolution in the image inspection industry. 1) "Binarization Level per Pixel" Each of the 300,000 pixels in a low-resolution camera has an upper and lower brightness limit (binarization level) [...].

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