Patent ID: 6920180
Filing Date: 2005-07-19
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing inspection apparatus, comprising: a TV camera; an image processing board connected to said TV camera, said image processing board having an image capture memory that stores an image captured by said TV camera and having an image-processing means for carrying out image processing on the image stored in said image capture memory; a central processing control device having an extension bus, a main CPU, and a main memory, said image-processing board being connected to said extension bus; image-transfer means for transferring the image stored in the image capture memory to said main memory; CPU operation controlling means for providing control so that said main CPU carries out image processing on the image that has been transferred to said main memory; and parallel process controlling means for providing control so that said main memory and said image-processing means carry out image processing on the image captured by the TV camera in a shared manner; wherein the image processing includes at least one of a windowing process, a feature extraction process, and a matching process, and, as the parallel processing, said main CPU carries out at least one of the windowing process, the feature extraction process, and the matching process at the same time that the image-processing means carries out a different at least one of the windowing process, the feature extraction process, and the matching process.