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Briefs: Imaging
Software for Non-Contact Measurement of an Individual’s Heart Rate Using a Common Camera
A software application detects the heart rate of an individual by using a real-time video stream from a common camera connected to their computer. This involves no contact between the user and the camera, or calibration between individual users. NASA’s...
Articles: Imaging
Aging aircraft are an increasing concern. Commercial and government vehicles are being flown past their originally intended service life in order to save money. The answer, however, isn’t merely to...
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Measuring 23 × 26.5 × 21.5 mm (.9 × 1.04 × .84"), the uEye™ XS from IDS Imaging Development Systems (Woburn, MA) delivers images from distances of 10 cm, either automatically or manually using software. The...
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MicroPower Technologies (San Diego, CA) has announced the Helios ™ IR Camera. With the addition of an energy-efficient IR illuminator, the Helios day/night device captures and transmits IR-illuminated video data...
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Ircon® (Santa Cruz, CA) has introduced the ScanIR® 3 infrared linescanners and thermal imaging system. The ScanIR3 Series includes a choice of eight models. Robust housing incorporates standard watercooling and air...
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Products: Imaging
The pylon 4 Camera Software Suite offered by Basler (Ahrensburg, Germany) supports USB3 Vision and Windows 8. The Basler pylon 4 includes all drivers necessary to establish the various camera interface standards (USB3 Vision,...
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FLIR Systems (Portland, OR) has announced the FLIR A6700sc midwave infrared camera. The device features a 640×512 pixel resolution thermal detector. Short exposure times allow users to freeze motion and achieve accurate...
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Products: Imaging
Teledyne DALSA (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) has released the GEVA 3000 vision system. The fanless GEVA 3000 is equipped with a Gen3 Core i7 processor, choice of camera interface, and application software.
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BitFlow (Woburn, MA) provides an alternative to four-link CoaXPress (CXP) frame grabbers with its Karbon™ CXP2, a two-link frame grabber. BitFlow Karbon-CXP2 frame grabbers offer video acquisition speeds up to 6 Gigabits per...
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The S-MIZE EM high-speed camera from AOS Technologies AG (Baden, Switzerland) has built-in PowerPC architecture, which duplicates the control and status lines of a film camera. A range of available connectors also enable...
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Edmund Optics (Barrington, NJ) has doubled its offering of stock Zinc Selenide Plano-Convex (PCX) Lenses. The Zinc Selenide Plano-Convex Lenses are available individually, in diameters of 12.7, 25.4, and 50.8 mm, with a variety of...
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American Industrial Systems (Irvine, CA) has announced industrial, widescreen, multi-touch HMI monitors and displays. A Projected Capacitive Sensor provides a gesture-based HMI interface that allows interactions such as...
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Application Briefs: Imaging
Lumenera Corp. Ottawa, Canada 613-736-4077 www.lumenera.com Lumenera recently partnered with an ophthalmology diagnostic device manufacturer that required a camera for integration...
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Articles: Imaging
Thermal imagers allow a user to see an object’s heat signature, and heat provides an entirely different set of performance data than the visible spectrum available to the...
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Articles: Imaging
Industries as diverse as architecture, engineering, construction, advertising, and medical have all incorporated an array of 3D visualization technologies into their design,...
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News: Defense
Army Works To Develop New Combat Headgear
In their quest for better helmet technologies to keep soldiers and marines safe on the battlefield, researchers at Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center are making a "HEaDS-UP" play.
Products: Imaging
The EPIX (Buffalo Grove, IL) PIXCI®e104 x4 Gen2 Camera Link frame grabber acquires from dual deca cameras or from 4 base cameras. The PCIe gen2 x4 interface transfers data to the host processor in bursts of 20 gigabits per...
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Matrox® Graphics (Dorval, Quebec, Canada) offers MuraControl™ 2.0 for Windows® video wall management software. Features include transparency and color-keying effects, the addition of local inputs and control,...
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Basler (Exton, PA) has expanded its sprint series of line scan cameras. The existing Camera Link models with 39 kHz, 70 kHz, and 140 kHz line scan rates are now joined by monochrome and color cameras offering 50 kHz at 2k and...
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The Imaging Source (Charlotte, NC) offers industrial monochrome/color 29 × 29 × 57 mm cameras. Features include an Aptina CMOS sensor; Sony CCD sensor; resolution from VGA to 5 MP; frame rate up to 150 fps; GigE with PoE (Power...
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LightWise™ IQ Cameras from Imaging Solutions Group (Rochester, NY) support Dual GigE Vision, the new CoaXpress interface, and Truesense Imaging (Kodak) KAI CCD products. The 16 Mp camera (7.4 micron pixel – KAI-16070)...
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Teledyne DALSA (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) has introduced the Remote RadEye™ HR x-ray camera. The Remote RadEye HR is a compact, CMOSbased industrial x-ray sensor, featuring over 2 million pixels in an active area measuring 33...
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ADLINK Technology (San Jose, CA) has released the EOS-1220 GigE Vision-compliant embedded vision system, featuring third generation Intel® Core™ i7 quadcore processors, four independent PoE (Power over Ethernet) ports,...
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Vumii™ Imaging (Atlanta, GA) has released its Accuracii family of long-range, dualchannel thermal surveillance camera systems. The Accuracii camera systems combine two advanced video channels on an integrated...
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Vision Research (Wayne, NJ) has expanded its line of Phantom ® Miro cameras to include a ruggedized body style. The RCUcompatible Phantom Miro R-Series features flexible tools for both qualitative and quantitative analysis....
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Integrated Microwave Technologies, LLC (Mount Olive, NJ), a Business Unit within the Vitec Group’s Videocom Division, offers new Concealment Video Kits (CTVK). The CTVK all-in-one kit includes a hide with an integrated miniature...
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A motorized fine focus stage from Santa Barbara Imaging (Santa Barbara, CA) features a stepper motor drive, cross roller stage, integrated motor controller, optical limit switches, and joystick actuator. Stage travel is 50 mm...
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CRAIC Technologies (San Dimas, CA) has announced ImageUV™ microscope camera control and image analysis software for Windows™ 8. Windows™ 8 includes features such as native touchscreen control, quick resizing of...
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OmniVision Technologies (Santa Clara, CA) has announced the OV8865, an 8- megapixel CameraChip™ sensor. The sensor features an improved 1.4-micron OmniBSI-2™ pixel.
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