Abstract:
The invention concerns an optical inspection method for the line inspection of transparent or translucent objects (2) travelling at fast rate between a light source (3) and means (4) to take images of the objects and to analyze the images taken, so as to detect defects in the objects.According to the invention, the method consists of: controlling the single light source (3) so that said source successively produces two types of illumination for each object travelling in front of said source, the first type being homogeneous illumination whilst the second type is formed of alternate dark areas (s) and light areas (c) with discontinuous spatial variability, taking images of each travelling object when each thereof is successively illuminated by both types of lighting, and analyzing the images taken with the first and second types of illumination, with a view to detecting high contrast defects and low contrast defects respectively