Patent ID: 9535011
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G01N,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising an inspection device for monitoring bottles, said inspection device comprising a lighting unit, a color-sensitive camera, and a control-and-evaluation unit, wherein said lighting unit is arranged above a transport path of bottles to be examined, wherein said lighting unit comprises a light-source circuit-board having light sources that emit light having a light-source color, wherein said control-and-evaluation unit is configured to change said light-source color to a bottle color that is determined in a region of a mouth of a bottle, and wherein said light sources are arranged in radially spaced light source rings, each of which is concentric about a midpoint of said light-source circuit-board, and wherein emitted light is coupled at least partially into an interior of a wall of said bottle mouth.