EP0661108A2 - Procédé de tri optique de matériau en vrac - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
- B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
- B07C5/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
- B07C5/36—Sorting apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution
- B07C5/363—Sorting apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution by means of air
- B07C5/365—Sorting apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution by means of air using a single separation means
- B07C5/366—Sorting apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution by means of air using a single separation means during free fall of the articles
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
- B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
- B07C5/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
- B07C5/34—Sorting according to other particular properties
- B07C5/342—Sorting according to other particular properties according to optical properties, e.g. colour
- B07C5/3422—Sorting according to other particular properties according to optical properties, e.g. colour using video scanning devices, e.g. TV-cameras
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
- Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y10S209/00—Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
- Y10S209/939—Video scanning
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- the invention relates to a method for the optical sorting of bulk material according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
- test material is conveyed on tapes and its image is recorded for testing with a diode line camera or a television camera.
- the signal is preferably recorded in flight, e.g. the test material is transferred from one belt to another belt.
- the test material can be examined from several sides with a defined background.
- the color is also recorded during image acquisition.
- the color is used to detect conspicuous areas in the image.
- the image of the test item is evaluated in step-by-step with the image scanning, so that a test item can be classified immediately after it has passed through the measuring station. This makes it possible to eject the parts in flight using flaps or air nozzles.
- a disadvantage of the known methods is that the detection rate for color-heterogeneous products is low if the detection of conspicuous pixels is limited to the detection of color values that are not contained in the product because there are many different color values in the product. If the detection is expanded to include color values which are also contained in the product, an unbearably high proportion of the error-free product is generally detected as a reject even when extending to colors which rarely occur in the product.
- the light of each pixel is blocked by color filters in front of the detection elements of a line e.g. broken down into the three color components red (R), green (G) and blue (B). It is thereby achieved that a detection of conspicuous pixels (points with color values which rarely occur in the fault-free product) is possible by evaluating the color values (intensities of the respective color components) measured by the line elements. The geometry is then evaluated in terms of local clusters of conspicuous pixels.
- the entire range of possible color values in the color space is divided into several sub-areas, the color space being spanned by the different color components that are measured for each pixel.
- the three color components red, green and blue form a three-dimensional color space.
- Allow classifiers ie means for evaluating the measured values on the basis of predetermined criteria a classification of the measured color values, with a classifier concentrating on only one sub-area and thereby recognizing detection areas in this sub-area for the color-heterogeneous product, that is, coherent areas of conspicuous pixels.
- the reject part is detected as a relatively large area of pixels of the color values of the selected sub-area and can be recognized by the classifier by evaluating this detection area.
- the defect-free product within such a sub-area large areas of conspicuous pixels are generally found only in rare cases, and the number of incorrect detections thus remains small. This improvement in the classification is used in practical application by dividing the committee into typical classes and setting up a classifier for each class, with the classifiers working in parallel during the test.
- the distribution of their color values is learned in the sub-areas in which reject parts are suspected by showing reject parts.
- the bulk material preferably moves in flight past an observation head with a light source and a product signal receiver arranged in the vicinity of the light source.
- the reflected light from each pixel of the test material is transmitted through different color filters of adjacent line elements of a camera line, e.g. a CCD line, the receiver divided into the three colors red (R), green (G) and blue (B).
- the line elements thus measure the brightness of the pixels, also called color values, in their respective spectral ranges. This results in a three-dimensional distribution of color values, the evaluation of which is discussed below using one-dimensional examples.
- the test material is measured without rejects in a pre-learning process and the frequency distribution 1 of the color values is determined.
- the test material is also measured without rejects and in a first step a color value range for good test material is determined by placing a threshold 2 based on experience on the frequency distribution 1 of the color values, the intersection between the threshold 2 and the curve of the frequency distribution being derived from the intersection points 1 result in the limits of the test material color value range.
- threshold 2 With the selected setting of threshold 2, pixels will also appear in the case of the error-free test material, which are classified as conspicuous. However, these pixels would erroneously serve as a committee if they clustered into large areas classified. Experience has shown that such an agglomeration in turn occurs preferentially in certain color value ranges. In order to measure these color value ranges, a large area detected in the error-free test material is stored in the learning process and the distribution of its color values is measured. This distribution is introduced as threshold 3 after standardization.
- the color value ranges of the product are divided into sub-ranges.
- each of the classifiers A, B and C working in parallel concentrates only on one sub-area. If the color components of the color-homogeneous reject part are preferably in the selected sub-area, the reject part is detected as a relatively large area and can be recognized by evaluating the detection areas.
- the distributions of the color values of these large areas are measured and introduced as thresholds after their normalization. All color values at which these thresholds 4, 5 and 6 exceed the color value distribution 1 of the test material parts are interpreted as rejects and lead to an error detection.
- the defect-free product large-area detection areas are detected in a color value range covered by a classifier, and the defect-free product is thus classified as a reject.
- these color values in particular, which lead to large-area detection areas in the fault-free product area are learned and recognized as good test material by changing the thresholds.
- the threshold 8 shows the Color value distribution of a reject part. Within the color value range determined by threshold 8, error-free test material is classified as a reject.
- the color value distribution of this large-area detection area is measured in the error-free test material and introduced as a threshold 7 after standardization. All color values at which the threshold 7 exceeds the threshold 8 of the reject part are interpreted as belonging to the test material and thus do not lead to an error detection.
- the classification system is doubled.
- One system takes over the test task, while the other system measures the current color value distribution of the product.
- the measurement of the current color value distribution is monitored by the checking classifier so that no color values of the rejects are recorded during this measurement.
- the learning classifier with the newly measured distribution is activated for the test task, while the classifier which has been set to test so far takes over the learning task.
- the test object When the signal is recorded, the test object is illuminated, for example, by two lamps from the direction of the line scan camera.
- the optical axis of the line scan camera lies between the two lamps.
- test material is taken up lying on the conveyor belt.
- the tape is not of a uniform color due to dirt and wear.
- shadows form on the conveyor belt, which leads to a significant expansion of the color value distribution when measuring the error-free test material. For this reason, the test material is observed in flight.
- the background has the color of the test material, which has the advantage that the contrast between the background and the test material is low and therefore the color value distribution of the test material is not significantly expanded by edge effects at the transition from the background to the test material.
- This variant provides the best results in terms of color and spatial resolution.
- the background as a rotating roller, which immediately throws away deposits.
- the shadow of the test material on the background becomes diffuse and, depending on the bulk density, harmless if the rotating roller is installed at a suitable distance from the test material.
- the background can be a cylindrical emitter that emits the color of the test material and is surrounded by a transparent rotating roller that throws away the deposits.
- the background is a dark hole, which has the advantage that the test material can be segmented from the background and there is no impairment due to dirt and shadows.
- segmentation of the test material for example, the form for separating good parts and rejects can be used.
- the line scan camera looks into this container through a slit.
- the width of the slot is adapted to the aperture and focal length of the camera lens and to the distance to the focus plane.
- the light of each pixel is broken down into the three colors red (R), green (G) and blue (B).
- the color components are not ideally measured at the same location, but rather at different locations.
- the color sensors are even located side by side, so that the color sensors see different spatial areas of the measurement object with respect to a pixel.
- the color sensors (R, G, B) are arranged horizontally, while the measurement object moves past this horizontal line from top to bottom.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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| DE4345106A DE4345106C2 (de) | 1993-12-28 | 1993-12-28 | Verfahren zum optischen Sortieren von Schüttgut |
| DE4345106 | 1993-12-28 |
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| EP0661108A2 true EP0661108A2 (fr) | 1995-07-05 |
| EP0661108A3 EP0661108A3 (fr) | 1997-02-12 |
| EP0661108B1 EP0661108B1 (fr) | 1999-11-03 |
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| EP94250285A Expired - Lifetime EP0661108B1 (fr) | 1993-12-28 | 1994-11-25 | Procédé de tri optique de matériau en vrac |
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| US (1) | US5586663A (fr) |
| EP (1) | EP0661108B1 (fr) |
| JP (1) | JP3517292B2 (fr) |
| AT (1) | ATE186242T1 (fr) |
| BR (1) | BR9405268A (fr) |
| CA (1) | CA2136779C (fr) |
| DE (2) | DE4345106C2 (fr) |
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| DE19511534C2 (de) * | 1995-03-29 | 1998-01-22 | Fraunhofer Ges Forschung | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Erfassung von 3D-Fehlstellen bei der automatischen Inspektion von Oberflächen mit Hilfe farbtüchtiger Bildauswertungssysteme |
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| CA2136779C (fr) | 2004-04-06 |
| JP3517292B2 (ja) | 2004-04-12 |
| HK1013038A1 (en) | 1999-08-13 |
| CA2136779A1 (fr) | 1995-06-29 |
| DE4345106A1 (de) | 1995-06-29 |
| US5586663A (en) | 1996-12-24 |
| DE59408885D1 (de) | 1999-12-09 |
| JPH08206611A (ja) | 1996-08-13 |
| EP0661108B1 (fr) | 1999-11-03 |
| BR9405268A (pt) | 1995-09-19 |
| DE4345106C2 (de) | 1995-11-23 |
| ATE186242T1 (de) | 1999-11-15 |
| EP0661108A3 (fr) | 1997-02-12 |
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