Patent ID: 9728168
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06T,G09G

Claim:
1. An image processing apparatus for processing images of target objects under conveyance on a production line conveyor, the target objects to be inspected, the image processing apparatus comprising: a target image display unit that displays an image of a target object of the target objects under conveyance on the production line conveyor in an image frame over the entirety of a screen of the target image display unit; a menu display unit that displays a menu image in a menu frame over the image of the target object in the image frame, the menu image including a plurality of user interface parts displayed in a translucent manner, each of the plurality of user interface parts being a separate image; and a model area frame creation unit that creates, based on a user input, a model area frame displaying a partial image in the image of the target object, the model area frame being positionable by the model area frame creation unit over any portion of the image of the target object in the image frame, the partial image serving as a reference image for inspection processing, the menu display unit comprising a display switching unit that displays the menu image in the menu frame over the target image of the object in the image frame in accordance with a switching instruction, the display switching unit switching a number of the plurality of the user interface parts displayed in the menu image displayed in the menu frame so as to change an amount of area occupied by the menu image displayed in the menu frame over the image of the target object in the image frame, the menu display unit displaying one of the plurality of user interface parts in a form of a slide bar or a chart in a non-translucent manner directly over a portion of the image of the target object in the image frame, the one of the plurality of user interface parts displayed in the form of a slide bar or a chart sets or displays at least one of a plurality of parameters of a color model for image extraction, including hue, saturation, and value, while an image extraction result of the setting of the at least one of the plurality of parameters of the color model is checked using the partial image displayed in the model area frame as the reference image for the inspection processing of the target object while the target objects are under conveyance on the production line conveyor.