Patent ID: 7075565

Claim:
An optical inspection system for inspecting an object, comprising: a plurality of cameras for imaging the object, each of the plurality of cameras being asynchronously triggerable; an illumination system for providing a plurality of lighting modes to illuminate the object for the plurality of cameras; a frame grabber unit for transmitting image data from the plurality of cameras to a memory; and a main computer for controlling image acquisition of the object, wherein the plurality of cameras are adapted to obtain image data of the object based upon a plurality of fields of view of the object and a series of firing positions within each field of view, each of the firing positions having associated therewith at least one of the plurality of cameras and at least one of the plurality of lighting modes provided by the illumination system, wherein the optical image system is adapted to image a first one of the plurality of fields of view of the object with the at least one of the plurality of cameras in first and second ones of the plurality of lighting modes in a single pass.