Patent ID: 7173703

Claim:
An apparatus on a textile fibre processing machine for inspecting and evaluating textile fibre material, the apparatus comprising an opto-electronic system for scanning the textile fibre material, there being relative movement between the opto-electronic system and the fibre material in a working direction and the fibre material having a working width extending transversely to said working direction, the opto-electronic system comprising two or more partial camera modules which are displaced from one another across the working width of the fibre material and which are in communication with a common image-evaluation device, each partial camera module consisting essentially of an objective in combination with a sensor, the system further comprising remote camera components located remotely from said partial camera modules, said remote camera components being common to each of the two or more partial camera modules and comprising one or more components selected from printed circuit boards, synchronizers, power supplies, and devices for reading individual pixels.