Virtual electronic measuring instruments

The virtual electronic measuring instruments are virtually existing in AR world with their graphical metaphors. There are several advantages in comparison with usual electronic measuring instruments.

• Free design possibility of displaying measured values.
  It is possible to set up the display of measured values freely by the computer graphics unlike a usual electronic measuring instrument; analog indicator, bar meter, seven-segment number display.

• Prompt of measuring points visually.
  For example, because such as dual in-line IC has many pin leads, it is severe task to identify a certain pin lead. Instead of written document like 'PIN 23 of IC 8', the virtual electronic measuring instruments indicate the target portion directly by superimposing markers.

• Concealment of work branching depending on measured result.
  In the electronic inspections, there are lots of tuning tasks; the voltage of a certain test pin ranges within fixed margin by rotating a variable resister. In these tasks, if the voltage is in the margin, there is no need to tune the resister. At that case, the worker has to skip some portion of the instruction in the manual procedure. It is process branching of the instruction. Thereupon, it is possible to search and show the correct work process to be proceeded next by the process control PC. While PC analyzes the output from the measuring instruments and maintain the process control, the worker gets to concentrate on only the work process which is conducted by the PC, without concerning work branching.

• Inspection plural targets simultaneously
  As the process status is controlled by the PC, the status can be temporally stored in any time. It makes a good advantage that the system can handle plural number of targets to be inspected simultaneously. Also, the worker may pauses the inspection anytime.

It is possible to overcome the various problems that are conceivable with usual inspection work by using a virtual electronic measuring instruments.