Table 6: Comparison for deviations of light values and gray-scale.
deviation of light value(R,G,B) gray-scale(R,G,B)
The previous work (80,81,46) (9.6,19.6,13.4)
Manual calibration (74,44,26) (8.7,9.0,10.1)
The proposed method (9,10,6) (3.9,4.1,5.1)
Figure 12: The result of the proposed method.
pact of Bayer filter. In addition, in the case that the de-
viation of lighting value is high butit is converged,the
camera calibration which should make similar gray-
scale values with same light values is not proper. The
deviation of gray-scale values is measured on the cen-
ter area of body in the product. The deviation of light
values and the average gray-scale values are shown
in Table 6. The result of the previous work does not
include the failed cases. Because the previous work
does not calibrate the gain value and the balance ra-
tios, the deviation of light values is huge and the de-
viation of average gray-scale values is over than 10.
Moreover, 35 of the total 50 lots are failed to con-
verge to the target, and it needs to be calibrated man-
ually. The manual inspection gives better image qual-
ity within 10 difference of gray-scale values, but the
deviation of the light values is large. It means that
the difference of colors is improved but the camera
calibration is improper. On the other hand, the pro-
posed method can provide the deviation of the gray-
scale values within 5 and the deviation of the light
values within 10. And, all the lot with the proposed
method are successfully calibrated. The results of the
calibrations are shown in Fig 10, Fig 11, and Fig 12.
4 CONCLUSIONS
In this paper, an automatic calibration method of the
optical system has been proposed for passive compo-
nent inspection. The proposed method calibrated the
gain and white balance ratios of the inspection cam-
eras using the relation between the gain and the bal-
ance ratios. The proposed method set the gain and
the balance ratios to make the obtained images sim-
ilar with same light conditions and make the differ-
ences of the image intensities and the light values
minimized. In the experiment, we compared the pro-
posed method to the previous method and the manual
calibration method. The proposed method gave better
performance than previous work and the manual cali-
bration method. It took less time to calibrate the opti-
cal system and minimized the difference of the image
intensities.
Since the experiment was performed for 50 lots,
we have a plan to experiment more various models
and lots. Furthermore, we need to reduce the re-
quired time for the calibration and apply the calibra-
tion method to other camera models.
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