Patent ID: 9170206
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: A24C,B41F,G01N,G06T,G07D,H04N

Abstract:
1. An inspection apparatus for a sheet including a pattern portion printed with an ordinary ink and a pattern portion printed with an ink containing an infrared component, comprising: a white light source configured to irradiate the sheet with light containing visible light; an infrared light source configured to irradiate the sheet with light containing infrared rays; two visible light imaging means for imaging the sheet; one infrared imaging means for imaging the sheet, the infrared imaging means being located in a position which is out of fields of view of the two visible light imaging means; an infrared filter configured to eliminate the visible light in the light emitted from the white light source and the infrared light source and reflected off the sheet, and to make only the infrared rays incident on the infrared imaging means; and a control device configured to determine appropriateness of the pattern portion printed with the ordinary ink on the sheet on the basis of the visible light emitted from the white light source and the infrared light source, reflected off the sheet, and made incident on the two visible light imaging means, and to determine appropriateness of the pattern portion printed with the ink containing the infrared component on the sheet on the basis of the infrared rays emitted from the white light source and the infrared light source, reflected off the sheet, and made incident on the one infrared imaging means.