Patent ID: 8605984

Claim:
A cigarette inspection device for imaging filter end faces in a cigarette bundle containing a predetermined number of filter cigarettes horizontally arranged when wrapping process of the cigarette bundle is unfinished, analyzing an inspection image in which the filter end faces are imaged, and inspecting quality of the filter end faces, comprising: cigarette-location detecting means for determining a pattern image to be used for detecting a cigarette location on the basis of a preset location of each cigarette in the cigarette bundle, setting a search area with respect to each cigarette's location on the inspection image for detecting the cigarette location by the use of the pattern image, moving the pattern image obtained on the basis of cigarette location in the cigarette bundle within the search area that is determined with respect to each cigarette's location on the inspection image, and obtaining an image position at which the pattern image coincides with an image of the filter end face of the cigarette; and quality inspection means for cutting out an image of a filter end face of the cigarette from the inspection image according to the detected image position of the cigarette, and inspecting the quality of the filter end face of the cigarette.