No.5（2010）4.Usability improvement of X-ray food inspection equipment

Norihiro Ohira, Takashi Yamaguchi, Mamoru Ohara, Hideaki Shimizu, Kunio Kamimura, Hideo Saiki

  To properly set up X-ray inspection equipment of foreign bodies in foods properly has become more and more complicated and time-consuming, because digital image processing used in it has more parameters for more precise inspecting. In this paper, it is reported some methods to lighten the work load of workers who set up the parameters. Using Statistical methods, we construct an auto setting lookup table for adjusting contrast and parameters of inspection algorithm. With the former we confirmed an expansion of a range of grey levels that include domain of foreign bodies in sample data. Furthermore, with we constructed in our former research, we can set automatically limit of parameters that judge input product’s image to be not including foreign bodies. It is suitable for food inspection system, since users prefer severely inspecting of foreign products.

Keywords

inspecting foreign bodies, image processing, look-up table, parameters, auto setting

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