Patent ID: 8406503

Claim:
A mounted component inspection apparatus comprising: an inspection processing unit for carrying out an inspection of a component by using a component library holding updatable inspection information; a match rate acquisition unit for acquiring, respectively for inspection information before and after updating held by the component library, a match rate that indicates a degree to which inspection information is suitable for an inspection by the inspection processing unit, on a basis of results of inspections by the inspection processing unit; and a judgment unit for selecting the inspection information having a higher match rate, of the inspection information before updating and the inspection information after updating, wherein the component library can hold the inspection information before and after updating, after carrying out inspections of components using the inspection information before and after updating held in the component library, the inspection processing unit carries out an inspection of a component using inspection information selected by the judgment unit, and each match rate of the inspection information before and after updating is a value obtained by dividing a count value obtained by counting the number of times that acceptable information is generated, the acceptable information indicating that a result of an inspection by the inspection processing unit using the inspection information is satisfactory, by a total number of times that the inspection information has been used.