SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD

A technique is provided that uses AI processing to enable stable discrimination of various defect types for a defect occurring in a sheet product. Provided is an assistance device that assists a determination inspection for determining a type of an abnormality. The assistance device includes a classification processing unit and a learning discrimination unit. The learning discrimination unit discriminates an abnormality type for each of the one or more classes to be processed selected by the classification processing unit, based on an individual discrimination result from the learning discriminator trained with the discrimination criterion for each abnormality type.