TIRE INSPECTION DEVICE

A tire inspection apparatus capable of performing appearance inspection of the inner surface or the outer surface of a tire, for instance, in shortened processing time by efficiently shooting the images of the tire and accurately synthesizing the images captured. The tire inspection apparatus is so arranged that a plurality of cameras (11) to (13) are located at relatively displaced circumferential positions and also set for the respective shooting positions different from each other in the axial direction of the tire. Thus the images of the inner circumferential surface of the tire are shot by the plurality of cameras as the tire is rotated circumferentially relative to the plurality of cameras. During this operation, markers are inserted at the same time in the images shot by all of the cameras. The images thus shot by all of the cameras are synthesized using these markers as reference positions in aligning the shot images in accordance with the relative displacements of the cameras in the circumferential direction.