Patent ID: 8081213

Claim:
A test support system comprising: a camera which photographs an object to be tested, to generate a camera image; an image processing controller which acquires the camera image from the camera, extracts a measurement result from the camera image, and determines a quality of the object to be tested based upon this measurement result, to output a determination signal; and a program creation apparatus which creates a control program of the image processing controller, wherein the program creation apparatus includes a processing unit storing part for holding, as processing units, an image pick-up unit that acquires a camera image from the camera based upon an image pick-up trigger signal, and two or more measurement units that extract a measurement result from the camera image acquired by the image pick-up unit, a flow chart generating part for arranging the processing units on an execution flow that is started with a start symbol and completed with an end symbol, to generate a flowchart, a program generating part for generating a control program for the image processing controller based upon the flowchart, and a program transferring part for transferring the control program to the image processing controller, the image processing controller includes a program storing part for holding the control program, a program executing part for repeatedly executing the control program with an acquirement cycle of the camera image taken as a measurement cycle, a log collecting part for sampling a terminal state when executing the control program, and holding the terminal state as an execution log shown in time series, and a log transferring part for transferring the execution log to the program creation apparatus, and the log collecting part holds the execution log in association with the processing unit.