Patent ID: 7549586

Claim:
An optical measurement system which manages whether an optical property of a sample falls within a predetermined management range, said optical measurement system comprising: a measuring device which measures the optical property value of the inspected sample, the optical property value being a color-related property value; a reader which reads an attribute identification information of an identification tag attached to the inspected sample; a storage section which stores optical property management information concerning a plurality of kinds of samples each in a manner corresponding to attribute identification information of each sample; a data control section which reads out from said storage section the optical property management information corresponding to the attribute identification information of the sample read by said reader; a determination section which receives the optical property management information from said data control section as well as the optical property value of the sample from the measuring device, compares the optical property management information with the optical property value of the sample, and determines whether the optical property value falls within an allowable range in the optical property management information; and a storing section which stores whether the optical property value falls within an allowable range in the optical property management information.