ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,746, issued on May 20, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Feeder operation inspection device" was invented by Shuichiro Kito (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeder operation inspection device includes an image processing section configured to deduce a position of a brightness change point group, which is a set of brightness change points where an amount of change in brightness relative to a periphery in an image datum is equal to or larger than a specified value, for each of multiple image data, a calculating section configured to calculate an actual conveyance amount of a carrier tape which is actually conv...