Television – Special applications – Manufacturing
Patent
1996-12-19
2000-08-29
Kelley, Chris S.
Television
Special applications
Manufacturing
382145, H04N 718
Patent
active
061116025
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for inspecting solder joints are provided. A method for inspecting test solder joints includes the steps of illuminating the test solder joints on a printed circuit board to obtain sample images of the test solder joints by grabbing reflected light with a charge coupled device (CCD) camera, classifying the sample images by an inspector into a number of classes according to the soldering quality, inputting a specific sample image belonging to each class to a neural network to divide the class into a predetermined number of clusters; determining a synaptic weight of each class by learning each cluster, determining a confirmed synaptic weight by adjusting the synaptic weight according to a boundary condition between the clusters belonging to neighboring different classes, and selecting a similar cluster by comparing the similarities between the outputs of the neural network with respect to the test solder joints based on confirmed synaptic weights, and each output of the inspector's class. The method and apparatus for inspecting solder joints can guarantee satisfactory classification accuracy with the minimum number of prototype images.
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Kelley Chris S.
Philippe Gims
Samsung Electronics Co,. Ltd.
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