Identification method, identification system, matching device, and program
First Claim
1. An information acquisition and identification system comprising:
- an image characteristics storage configured to store image characteristics of textured patterns formed over an n-dimensional symbol displaying information on a part, a product, or a product including the part as its component on component or products, wherein n is a natural number; and
a processor programmed to;
extract an image of the n-dimensional symbol and an image of a textured pattern over the n-dimensional symbol from an image including at least the n-dimensional symbol and a textured pattern formed on the part or the product;
acquire information on the part or the products from the extracted image of the n-dimensional symbol;
identify the part, the product, or the product including the part as its component by matching image characteristics of the extracted image of the textured pattern with image characteristics stored in the image characteristics storage; and
extract the image of the textured pattern by removing a high frequency component corresponding to granularity of a satin finished surface from a captured image and taking a difference between the captured image and an image captured after the high frequency component is removed.
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Abstract
The present invention addresses the problem of acquiring information regarding a component or product and identifying said component or product easily and inexpensively. The present invention has an image-feature storage, an extracting means, an acquiring means, and an identifying means. The image-feature storage stores image features of texture patterns formed on components or products. The extracting means extracts an n-dimensional-symbol image and a texture-pattern image from a taken image containing at least the following: an n-dimensional symbol (n being a natural number) that represents information regarding a component, a product, or a product comprising said component; and a texture pattern formed on said component or product. The acquiring means acquires, from the extracted n-dimensional-symbol image, the aforementioned information regarding the component or product. The identifying means identifies the component, product, or component-comprising product by matching image features of the extracted texture-pattern image against the image features stored by the image-feature storage.
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21 Claims
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1. An information acquisition and identification system comprising:
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an image characteristics storage configured to store image characteristics of textured patterns formed over an n-dimensional symbol displaying information on a part, a product, or a product including the part as its component on component or products, wherein n is a natural number; and a processor programmed to; extract an image of the n-dimensional symbol and an image of a textured pattern over the n-dimensional symbol from an image including at least the n-dimensional symbol and a textured pattern formed on the part or the product; acquire information on the part or the products from the extracted image of the n-dimensional symbol; identify the part, the product, or the product including the part as its component by matching image characteristics of the extracted image of the textured pattern with image characteristics stored in the image characteristics storage; and extract the image of the textured pattern by removing a high frequency component corresponding to granularity of a satin finished surface from a captured image and taking a difference between the captured image and an image captured after the high frequency component is removed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A processing system comprising:
a processor programmed to; form a textured pattern for identifying a part, a product, or a product including the part as its component over an n-dimensional symbol displaying information on the part or the product, wherein n is a natural number, wherein the textured pattern is provided on each of at least one die with predetermined granularity in order to identify a die used in manufacturing, wherein each individual is processed, in order to identify the each individual manufactured by a same die, with granularity smaller than the granularity at the time of processing the each of the at least one die, and wherein the textured pattern is formed in order to identify the part, the product, or the product including the part as its component. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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17. A registration system comprising:
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a processor programmed to; capture, an image including at least an n-dimensional symbol which indicates information on a part, a product, or a product including the part as its component, and a textured pattern having granularity smaller than a short side of a cell of the n-dimensional symbol, the textured pattern being formed over the n-dimensional symbol, under specific image capturing conditions, wherein n is a natural number; extract an image of the textured pattern from the captured image; and register in storing means identification information for identifying the part or the products and image characteristics of the extracted image of the textured pattern after they are associated with each other, wherein the textured pattern is provided on each of at least one die with predetermined granularity in order to identify a die used in manufacturing, wherein each individual is processed, in order to identify the each individual manufactured by a same die, with granularity smaller than the granularity at the time of processing the each of the at least one die, and wherein the textured pattern is formed in order to identify the part, the product, or the product including the part as its component. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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19. A matching device comprising:
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a processor programmed to extract an image of an n-dimensional symbol and an image of a textured pattern from an image including at least the n-dimensional symbol for displaying information on a part, a product, or a product including the part as its component and the textured pattern formed over the n-dimensional symbol, wherein n is a natural number; acquire information on the part or the products from the extracted image of the n-dimensional symbol; acquire and output a check result obtained by checking the extracted image of the textured pattern against a database which stores image characteristics of textured patterns formed on component or products; and extract the image of the textured pattern by removing a high frequency component corresponding to granularity of a satin finished surface from a captured image and taking a difference between the captured image and an image captured after the high frequency component is removed.
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20. An information acquisition and identification method comprising:
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extracting, by using a processor, an image of an n-dimensional symbol and an image of a textured pattern from an image including at least the n-dimensional symbol for displaying information on a part, a product, or a product including the part as its component and the textured pattern formed over the n-dimensional symbol, wherein n is a natural number; acquiring, by using the processor, information on the part or the products from the extracted image of the n-dimensional symbol; identifying, by using the processor, the part or a product including the product as its component by using image characteristics of the extracted image of the textured pattern; and extracting, by using the processor, the image of the textured pattern by removing a high frequency component corresponding to granularity of a satin finished surface from a captured image and taking a difference between the captured image and an image captured after the high frequency component is removed.
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21. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium Storing program for causing a computer to execute
extraction processing extracting an image of an n-dimensional symbol and an image of a textured pattern from an image including at least the n-dimensional symbol for displaying information on a part, a product, or a product including the part as its component and the textured pattern formed over the n-dimensional symbol, wherein n is a natural number; -
acquisition processing acquiring information on the part or the products from the extracted image of the n-dimensional symbol; acquisition and output processing acquiring and outputting a check result obtained by checking the extracted image of the textured pattern against a database which stores image characteristics of the formed textured pattern; and extracting processing extracting the image of the textured pattern by removing a high frequency component corresponding to granularity of a satin finished surface from a captured image and taking a difference between the captured image and an image captured after the high frequency component is removed.
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