JP2016083840A - Abnormality-watching image management system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an abnormality-watching image management system in which the management of the abnormality-watching image can properly be carried out.SOLUTION: Provided is an abnormality-watching image management system in which a watching image 11 is stored in image storing memories 6,10 for every predetermined time interval following the elapse of time, and said stored watching image 11 is reproduced following the hysteresis and displayed on an image display unit 8, and the result is that the user can easily grasp an abnormality-occurrence image 12 occurred during the watching action.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

Description

  The present invention relates to an abnormality monitoring image management apparatus, which is suitable for application to, for example, an injection molding machine monitoring apparatus.

  Conventionally, for example, as a monitoring device for an injection molding machine for injection molding of a synthetic resin material, an injection molding machine based on a video signal obtained by capturing an image around a mold of a main body of an injection molding machine with a television camera as an imaging means What is used to determine whether or not the injection molding operation of the insert molding of the main body is normal (see Patent Document 1).

  The injection molding machine body repeats the injection molding cycle every time one injection molding machine product is molded.

  That is, the main body of the injection molding machine is in a state in which the upper metal mold is in contact with the lower mold after the insert metal fitting is set in an appropriate place by manual operation on the lower mold (this state). Is called a mold clamping state), by injecting a synthetic resin material between the lower mold and the upper mold, which are insert molds, an injection molded product integrated with the insert fitting is molded.

  When the upper mold is retreated to a position away from the lower mold (this state is called a mold open state), the injection-molded product attached to the lower metal fitting is ejected from the lower mold by the ejection pin (this The state is called a sticking operation state) and is taken out by the take-out machine.

  Thus, when one injection molded product is taken out from the main body of the injection molding machine, one cycle of the injection molding process (that is, one injection molding cycle) is completed and the next injection molding cycle is started.

JP 2012-91354 A

  In an injection molding machine monitoring device for an injection molding operation of this type of injection molding machine, whether or not an abnormality has occurred by acquiring a monitoring image around the mold based on a video signal obtained by imaging with a television camera. Therefore, it is necessary to appropriately manage whether or not an abnormality monitoring image has occurred.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and intends to propose an anomaly monitoring image management apparatus that allows a user to properly manage an anomaly monitoring image by reliably grasping the occurrence of the anomaly monitoring image. Is.

  In order to solve such a problem, in the present invention, based on the imaging signals of the television cameras 2A and 2B, the monitored image 11 including the abnormality monitoring area 12 is sequentially displayed at predetermined time intervals as the time elapses. 10, the history data 36 is stored in the image storage memories 6 and 10 and the monitored image 11 is sequentially reproduced based on the stored history data 36, thereby causing an abnormality occurrence image in which an abnormality has occurred. 12 is displayed on the image display unit 8.

  According to the present invention, the monitored image is stored in the image storage memory at predetermined time intervals as time passes, and the stored monitored image is reproduced according to the history and displayed on the image display unit. By this, it is possible to easily grasp the abnormality occurrence image generated during the monitoring operation by the user.

It is a block diagram which shows one Embodiment of the abnormality monitoring image management apparatus of this invention. It is a basic diagram which shows the image during monitoring. It is a basic diagram which shows an NG image. It is a basic diagram which shows a driving record data display image. It is a basic diagram which shows a preservation | save NG moving image management screen. It is a basic diagram which shows a NG moving image reproduction image. It is a basic diagram which shows a system setting image.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

(1) In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes an abnormality monitoring image management apparatus as a whole, and video information consisting of images around a mold imaged by two television cameras 2A and 2B is inputted as image information via a camera link IC. The image signal S1 is taken into the central processing unit 4 via the unit 3.

  The central processing unit 4 performs management processing upon receiving an instruction input from the user for the abnormality monitoring image management apparatus 1. The image processing unit 5, which is an image processing processor, uses the input image signal S 1 as an input image signal S 1 X. The data is converted into data S2, thereby being converted into input image data S2 every moment and stored in the image processing memory 6 (comprising a flash memory).

  The input image data stored in the image processing memory 6 is sequentially read out as image processing data S3 by the central processing unit 4 at a predetermined timing as necessary, and transferred to the display / drawing memory 7 as stored image processing data S3X1. The stored image processing data S3X2 is transferred to the external storage memory 10 (also referred to as a USB memory) via the connection terminal 9.

  Thus, the central processing unit 4 displays the image by reading the stored image processing data S3X1 stored in the display / drawing memory 7 according to the user's operation input and giving it to the image display unit 8 as the display / drawing signal S4.

  In the case of this embodiment, the stored image processing data S3X2 stored in the external storage memory 10 is separated from the connection terminal 9 and connected to, for example, a personal computer, so that the main body of the abnormality monitoring image management apparatus 1 is stored. Apart from the stored image processing data S3X1 stored in the image processing memory 6 on the side, data processing can be performed externally.

(2) Abnormal Moving Image Display Operation During Monitoring The central processing unit 4 displays the monitoring image 11 shown in FIG. 2 on the image display unit 8 during the monitoring operation of the injection molding machine body.

  In the case of FIG. 2, the central processing unit 4 has an abnormality in one of the six monitoring areas when the injection molding machine main body is in a mold-clamping state (this is called a primary monitoring state). (This abnormality occurrence state is referred to as “NG”), indicating that the vehicle is in a stopped state.

  The occurrence of an abnormality in the mold clamping state, that is, the primary monitoring state is referred to as “primary NG”, while the mold open state, that is, the occurrence of abnormality in the secondary monitoring is referred to as “secondary NG”.

  When primary NG (or secondary NG) occurs during the monitoring operation in this way, as shown in FIG. 2, injection molding is performed with the image portion of the abnormality occurrence monitoring area 12 where the abnormality has occurred displayed in red. The machine is stopped.

  At this time, the user presses the NG moving image button 13 of the monitored image 11 to reproduce the captured image immediately before the occurrence of the abnormality stored in the image processing memory 6 by the central processing unit 4 and display the image on the image display unit 8. 3 is moved to the NG moving image 15 shown in FIG. 3 so that the user can confirm the state immediately before the occurrence of the abnormality as a moving image.

  The storage time for confirmation here is selected to be a length that can be easily confirmed by the user, and depends on the capture size of the television cameras 2A and 2B and whether it is a color camera or not, and a color camera with 1.3 million pixels was used. Sometimes it takes about 6 [seconds], and when using a 300,000 pixel monochrome camera, it takes about 9 [seconds].

  In the NG image 15 shown in FIG. 3, a play / pause button 16 is an operation button for executing playback or pause of a moving image, and seek can be performed by touching the playback bar.

  At this time, the playback time display 17 is displayed on the right side of the playback bar, thereby displaying the playback time of the moving image and the current playback position.

  The save button 18 saves the NG image 15 in the image processing memory 7 provided on the main body side of the abnormality monitoring image management apparatus 1 or the USB memory 10 provided as an externally connected device.

  Further, the image saving button 19 saves the image being displayed in the USB memory 10 provided as an external connection device.

  The camera switching button 20 switches to the one to be used among the two television cameras 2A and 2B.

  Here, when only one television camera is connected, the camera switching button 20 is not displayed.

  The return button 21 operates to return to the previous screen.

(3) Anomaly occurrence moving image display operation When an abnormality occurs in the monitored image 11 (FIG. 2), the central processing unit 4 executes the process of the anomaly occurrence movie (NG animation) according to the following procedure.

(3-1) First, the central processing unit 4 enters a state of displaying the monitoring image 11 of FIG.

(3-2) Subsequently, the raw images of the television cameras 2A and 2B displayed during the monitoring process are stored in the image processing memory 6 for 5 to 10 frames per second.

  At this time, when the image memory use limit of the image processing memory 6 is reached, the old image is overwritten.

(3-3) During this time, when the central processing unit 4 detects the occurrence of an abnormality, the storage of the raw image in the image processing memory 6 is terminated.

(3-4) Reproduction of an abnormality occurrence image (NG image) is realized by causing the image display unit 8 to sequentially display the raw images sequentially stored in the image processing memory 6 by the central processing unit 4.

(3-5) In such processing, when saving to the image processing memory 6 (or USB memory 10) is executed, the sequentially saved images are converted into moving image data (GIF file) that can be played back by a personal computer. And save.

  All of the reproduction of the stored NG image data is to reproduce and display the GIF file.

(4) Management of NG moving image from operation record When the central processing unit 4 manages the NG moving image from the operation record, the operation processing data display image 30 shown in FIG. 4 is displayed to display the NG image. Present to the user.

  In a state in which the operation record data display image 30 is displayed, the user presses the display item button 31 to display a history of monitoring or setting change as a “history” screen or registered as a “reference image”. The reference image is displayed, or the NG image stored as “NG image” is displayed.

  When a history item is selected with the display item button 31 in the operation record data display image 30, the central processing unit 4 generates an image in which no abnormality has occurred as a stored image data, as shown in FIG. The history data 36 with the selected image is displayed in time sequence.

  In the case of FIG. 4, it is displayed that the first to twentieth image inputs have been made, that the thirteenth image is an NG image, and the others are normal images.

  For the item with the information, the user can touch to display the contents of the image.

  The display of this NG image cannot be browsed during monitoring.

  Next, in the operation record data display image 30, the user presses the display camera selection button 32 to select the television camera 2A or 2B to be displayed.

  In addition, the user presses the display monitoring button 33 in the operation record data display image 30 to select whether the monitoring mode to be displayed is primary monitoring or secondary monitoring.

  Further, the user selects a data display format by pressing the display switching button 34 in the operation record data display image 30.

  In this embodiment, the data display format can be selected from a list format, a thumbnail format, or an image format.

  At this time, the previewed image is an image when an abnormality occurs (that is, at the end of reproduction).

  In addition, the user presses a storage selection button 35 in the operation record data display image 30 to select a storage to be called.

  In the case of this embodiment, the storage that can be selected displays data stored in the image processing memory 6 that is a flash memory of, for example, 10 gigabytes mounted on the abnormality monitoring image management apparatus 1 or is externally connected. One of the data stored in the external storage memory (USB memory) 10 can be selected.

  Further, the user can save all data in the external storage memory (USB memory) 10 by pressing the save button 37 in the operation record data display image 30.

  Further, the user can delete all data by pressing the delete button 38 in the operation record data display image 30.

  Furthermore, the user can edit the history data by pressing the edit button 39 in the operation record data display image 30.

  Furthermore, the user can move the display to the page before and after the current display image by pressing the page switching button 40 in the operation record data display image 30.

  Further, the user can return to the previous screen by pressing the return button 41 on the operation record data display image 30.

  When the NG video item is selected by the display item button 31 in the operation record data display image 30 described above with reference to FIG. 4, the central processing unit 4 displays the saved NG video management screen 29 shown in FIG.

  In the case of the saved NG video management screen 29 in FIG. 5, the occurrence of four NG images is displayed according to the history of occurrence of an abnormality, which causes the user to have an abnormality in a series of injection molding operations. All images of the injection molding cycle can be extracted and displayed.

(5) NG movie playback On the saved NG movie management screen 29 in FIG. 5, the user can display the NG movie playback image 50 in FIG. 6 on the image display unit 8 by touching one of the NG history data. .

  In the NG movie playback image 50, when the user presses the playback / pause button 51, playback of the movie is paused, and seek can be performed by touching the playback bar.

  At this time, the playback time display 52 on the right side of the playback bar displays the playback time of the NG moving image and the current playback position.

  Further, when the user presses the save button 52 in the NG moving image playback image 50, the NG image is saved in the image processing memory 6 or the external storage memory (USB memory) 10.

  Further, the user saves the image being displayed on the image display unit 8 in the external storage memory 10 by pressing the image saving button 54 of the NG moving image reproduction image 50.

  Further, when the user presses the delete button 55 of the NG moving image playback image 50, the central processing unit 4 deletes the moving image from the image processing memory 6 or the memory of the external storage memory (USB memory) 10.

  Further, the central processing unit 4 can return to the previous screen when the user presses the return button 56 of the NG moving image playback image 50.

(6) System setting mode In the case of this embodiment, the central processing unit 4 of the abnormality monitoring image management apparatus 1 receives the system setting processing command from the user, and the standard monitoring / system setting mode as shown in FIG. The system setting image 60 is displayed on the image display unit 8 so that the system operation mode of the abnormality monitoring image management apparatus 1 is designated by the user.

  Thus, the central processing unit 4 turns on or off the settings for “NG image storage”, “NG color image storage”, “NG moving image”, and “reference image backup” in the system setting image 60 of FIG. By making the user set whether to set (default), the operation of the entire system can be set.

  Thereby, the central processing unit 4 monitors the image 11 in the “standard monitoring / monitoring” setting mode as shown in FIG. 2 and the NG image in the “standard monitoring / monitoring NG video” setting mode as shown in FIG. 15. Operation record data display image 30 in the “standard monitoring / operation record / history” setting mode as shown in FIG. 4, and storage in the “standard monitoring / operation record / NG moving image” setting mode as shown in FIGS. The NG movie management screen 29 and the NG movie playback image 50 can be displayed on the image display unit 8.

  The present invention is suitable for application to an injection molding machine monitoring device.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Abnormality monitoring image management apparatus, 2A, 2B ... Television camera, 3 ... Image information input part, 4 ... Central processing part, 5 ... Image processing part, 6 ... Image processing memory, 7 ... Display / drawing memory, 8 …… Image display section, 9 …… Connecting terminal, 10 …… External storage memory, 11 …… Monitoring image, 12 …… Abnormality monitoring area, 13… NG video button, 15 …… NG image, 16 ... play / pause button, 17 ... playback time display, 18 ... save button, 19 ... save image button, 20 ... camera switch button, 21 ... return button, 29 ... save NG Movie management screen, 30 …… Operation record data display image, 31 …… Display item button, 32 …… Display camera selection button, 33 …… Display monitor button, 34 …… Display switching button, 35 …… Storage selection button, 37 …… Save button 38... Delete button, 39... Edit button, 40 .. Page switch button, 41 .. Return button, 50 .. NG movie playback image, 51 .. Play / pause button, 52. …… Save button, 54 …… Image save button, 55 …… Delete button, 56 …… Back button, 60 …… System setting image.

In order to solve such a problem, in the present invention, the input image data S2, which is an image around the mold of the injection molding machine main body obtained by the television cameras 2A and 2B , is stored in the display / drawing memory 7 every moment. When the injection molding machine main body is in the primary monitoring state or the secondary monitoring state, the input image data S2 around the mold is displayed as history data of a moving image including an image in which no abnormality has occurred and an image in which the abnormality has occurred. The time-sequential storage in the drawing memory 7 and the history data can be reproduced and displayed on the image display unit 8, and the image reproduced and displayed on the image display unit 8 from the display / drawing memory 7 is an image in which an abnormality has occurred. In some cases, by playing back the image immediately before the image where the abnormality occurred, the user can check the video around the mold of the main body of the injection molding machine immediately before the occurrence of the abnormality as a video. Kill so.

According to the present invention, the input image data composed of the image around the mold of the injection molding machine main body, the history data composed of the image in which no abnormality has occurred and the image in which abnormality has occurred are stored and reproduced as a moving image. When the image is an image in which an abnormality has occurred, by reproducing the image immediately before the image in which the abnormality has occurred, the user can easily confirm the cause of the abnormality around the mold as a moving image.

The central processing unit 4 performs management processing upon receiving an instruction input from the user for the abnormality monitoring image management apparatus 1. The image processing unit 5, which is an image processing processor, uses the input image signal S 1 as an input image signal S 1 X. converted to data, thereby converts every moment input image data S2 is stored in the image processing memory 6 (made in flash memory).

Further, when the user presses the save button 53 in the NG moving image reproduction image 50, the NG image is saved in the image processing memory 6 or the external storage memory (USB memory) 10.

In order to solve such a problem, in the present invention, in the injection molding machine main body, when the movable side mold comes into contact with the fixed side mold, or when the movable side mold moves away from the fixed side mold, the reverse side moves backward. When the mold opening operation is performed , input image data S2 composed of images around the movable side mold and the fixed side mold obtained by the television cameras 2A and 2B is displayed in the display / drawing memory 7 every moment in the primary monitoring operation record image. NG image display data indicating whether or not an abnormality has occurred and stored as data or secondary monitoring operation record image data ,
The user reproduces and displays the primary monitoring operation record image data or the secondary monitoring operation record data, and designates the input image data to which the NG image display data is added, so that the image immediately before the designated input image data is designated. by reproducing the data, the image around a mold of an injection molding machine main body of the abnormality immediately before the user has to be confirmed as a moving image.

According to the present invention, the input image data composed of the image around the mold of the injection molding machine body is used as the primary monitoring operation recording image data or the secondary monitoring operation recording image data, indicating whether or not an abnormality has occurred. Save denoted by the NG image display data, the cause of the user by abnormal by specifying the NG image display data is to reproduce the image of the image immediately before that occurred, the user is abnormal around the mold occurs Can be easily confirmed as a moving image.

The save button 18 saves the NG image 15 in the image processing memory 6 provided on the main body side of the abnormality monitoring image management apparatus 1 or the external storage ( USB ) memory 10 provided as an external connection device.

Further, the image saving button 19 saves an image being displayed in an external storage ( USB ) memory 10 provided as an external connection device.

The camera SWITCHING button 20, out of the two television cameras 2A and 2B, switches are to be used.

In the case of this embodiment, the storage that can be selected displays data stored in the image processing memory 6 that is a flash memory of, for example, 10 gigabytes mounted on the abnormality monitoring image management apparatus 1 or is externally connected. I was able to select one of the data to an external Symbol 憶(USB) memory 1 0 have saved.

Further, the user, in operation the recording data displayed image 30, by pressing the save button 37, it is possible to store all data outside SL 憶(USB) in memory 1 0.

The user, in NG video playback image 50, and presses the storage button 53 or the image processing memory 6, and stores the NG image outside SL 憶 (US B) memory 10.

Further, the user saves the image being displayed on the image display unit 8 in the external storage (USB) memory 10 by pressing the image saving button 54 of the NG moving image reproduction image 50.

The central processing unit 4, the user if the user presses down the delete button 55 of the NG video playback image 50, to remove the video from the image processing memory 6 or the external Symbol 憶(USB) memory 1 0 memory.

Claims (3)

Based on the imaging signal of the television camera, the history image is retained in the image storage memory by sequentially storing the monitoring image including the abnormality monitoring area in the image storage memory at predetermined time intervals as time passes. An abnormality monitoring image management apparatus, wherein an abnormality occurrence image in which an abnormality has occurred is displayed on an image display unit by sequentially reproducing the monitoring image based on the history data thus obtained. The abnormality monitoring image management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image storage memory is an image processing memory provided in the abnormality monitoring image management apparatus main body. The abnormality monitoring image management device according to claim 1, wherein the image storage memory is an external storage memory provided outside the abnormality monitoring image management device main body.