Patent ID: 8224063

Claim:
An inspection apparatus which detects an amount of misalignment, from a predetermined mounting position, of a component mounted on a surface of a panel through an adhesive which contains conductive particles, said inspection apparatus comprising: a camera which captures an image of a panel recognition mark formed on the panel and a component recognition mark formed on the component; an obtaining unit configured to obtain, from the image captured by said camera, a position of a feature point of the panel recognition mark and a position of a feature point of the component recognition mark; a calculation unit configured to calculate an amount of misalignment of the feature point of one of the panel recognition mark and the component recognition mark in the image from a predetermined position that is determined using the position of the feature point of the other one of the recognition marks as a reference; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the feature point of the panel recognition mark and the feature point of the component recognition mark are recognizable in the image; and a correction unit configured to correct the image when said determination unit determines that the feature points are not recognizable, wherein said obtaining unit is configured to obtain the positions of the feature points from either the image for which said determination unit has determined that the feature points are recognizable or the image corrected by said correction unit, and when said determination unit determines that the feature points are not recognizable, said correction unit is configured to delete the conductive particles from the image and perform either linear interpolation or curve interpolation of a part of the image from which the conductive particles have been deleted.