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Chapter V Main Working Principles
This equipment performs inspection mainly based on optical principle and comprehensive use of
principles color operation, color extraction, gray scale operation, image contrast.
5.1 Optical principle
AOI's light source is composed of red, green and blue LED lamps. The three primary colors
are combined into different colors. Combined with the specular reflection, diffuse reflection
and oblique reflection in the optical principle, the welding of the patch elements on the PCB is
displayed. As shown in the following figure:
5.2 Color operation principle
Through rasterization of a BMP picture, the imaging details, such as the position coordinates
of the color distribution of each pixel and the color transition relationship between imaging grids,
are analyzed and several functional formulas are listed. Then, data extracted from several similar
pictures with the same area size is analyzed and calculated. The calculation results are restored
according to the weight relationship set by software and the pixel colors and coordinates of the
original BMP image to a virtual and weighted digital image. The main digital information covers
the image's graphic outline, color distribution, weight relationships allowing changes, etc.
5.3 Principle of image contrast
During test, the equipment captures the images of the inspected circuit board through the
CCD camera system, transfers the images into the computer through digital processing,
calculates and compares the images with the standard images (the comparison items include the