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Products: Imaging
NorPix, Montreal, Canada, has released StreamPix4 software to view, control, and acquire images from single or multiple cameras simultaneously in the same interface. The interface provides a management console for cameras,...
Products: Imaging
Longwatch, Norwood, MA, has introduced the Operator’s Console Recorder, a software module that automatically records images being shown on multiple HMI or SCADA operator’s displays. The module takes signals...
Products: Imaging
The CMOS IK-HR1H miniature remote camera head from Toshiba Imaging Systems Division, Irvine, CA, can be configured with either of two camera control units (CCUs), the IK-HR1CD and the IK-HR1CS. The lightweight remote camera...
Products: Imaging
IDEC Corp. USA, Sunnyvale, CA, offers Datasensor SVS Series smart vision sensors for machine vision applications. They feature a frame rate of 60 frames per second, Ethernet communication, a teach button, 640 × 480 pixel...
Products: Imaging
Sharpshooter vision-based sensors from Balluff, Florence, KY, offer 360° part rotation recognition. All configured inspections are compensated for the parts rotation, minimizing the need to tightly fixture parts. Output...
Products: Imaging
The FD-1665P camera system from FluxData, Rochester, NY, collects video at three linear polarization orientations simultaneously. The simultaneous registered video is captured from three sensors, and the optical system is...
Products: Imaging
DALSA, Billerica, MA, has introduced the BOA vision system, an integrated smart camera that comprises the elements of an industrial machine vision system, and incorporates multiple processing engines. This enables algorithm...
Products: Imaging
Photron, San Diego, CA, offers the Fastcam SA4 high-speed CMOS sensor that provides 3,600 frames per second operation at 1024 × 1024 pixel resolution. The camera offers frame rates at up to 500,000 frames per second at reduced...
Products: Imaging
Olympus NDT, Waltham, MA, offers the IPLEX LX and IPLEX LT industrial videoscopes for a range of remote visual inspections of parts or structures where access is limited. The scopes weigh 2.7 kg, including the battery,...
Briefs: Imaging
Processing Images of Craters for Spacecraft Navigation
A crater-detection algorithm has been conceived to enable automation of what, heretofore, have been manual processes for utilizing images of craters on a celestial body as landmarks for navigating a spacecraft flying near or landing on that body. The images are acquired by an electronic camera...
Briefs: Imaging
CMOS Camera Array With Onboard Memory
A compact CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) camera system has been developed with high resolution (1.3 Megapixels), a USB (universal serial bus) 2.0 interface, and an onboard memory. A compact design of a 2×4 in. (≈5×10 cm) multilayer PCB (printed circuit board) was designed that contains the...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Objective Lens Optimized for Wavefront Delivery, Pupil Imaging, and Pupil Ghosting
An interferometer objective lens (or diverger) may be used to transform a collimated beam into a diverging or converging beam. A typical objective lens is optimized to deliver a diffraction-limited beam to an optic or optical system under test. Often, imaging...
Briefs: Imaging
Utilizing a Compact Color Microscope Imaging System (CCMIS), a unique algorithm has been developed that combines human intelligence along with machine vision...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Process Photonics (Ottawa, ON, Canada) builds processing systems for the PCB, electronics assembly, and medical device markets. Their ProVisionTM series is a solution that uses...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Dr. Greg Olsen has had an illustrious career as a research scientist and entrepreneur. With degrees in physics and materials science, Olsen founded EPITAXX, a fiber-optic...
Eye on Innovation: Imaging
For many years, infrared vision was limited to government and laboratory applications, but the picture is rapidly changing. With the cost of thermal cameras decreasing, military, aerospace, and...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
TriDAR vision system Neptec Design Group Ottawa, ON, Canada 613-599-7602 www.neptec.com
NASA is conducting a Detailed Test Objective (DTO) with Neptec’s TriDAR vision...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Improved scanners to be incorporated into hyperspectral microscope-based imaging systems have been invented. Heretofore, in microscopic imaging, including spectral imaging, it has been...
Briefs: Imaging
Improving the Visible and Infrared Contrast Ratio of Microshutter Arrays
Three device improvements have been developed that dramatically enhance the contrast ratio of microshutters. The goal of a microshutter is to allow as much light through as possible when the shutters are in the open configuration, and preventing any light from passing through...
Briefs: Imaging
An apparatus for mid-infrared reflectance imaging has been developed as means of inspecting for subsurface damage in thermal-barrier coatings (TBCs). The apparatus is designed, more...
Articles: Imaging
Munitions accuracy provides an advantage in leveraging and applying force and has been sought after by political and military strategists for decades. Reflecting recent advances in...
Products: Imaging
Z Microsystems, San Diego, CA, offers the Ground Control Station display panels with real-time enhanced video. The LCD panels use an FPGA to execute image enhancement algorithms in real time for live video surveillance feeds. The...
Products: Imaging
SICK, Minneapolis, MN, offers the ICR890-2000 CCD-based camera system that reads 1D and 2D bar codes, and includes an integrated real-time JPEG encoder that allows high-quality images to take up less storage space. It also...
Products: Imaging
Cognex Corp., Natick, MA, offers the DataMan 200 image-based ID reader that features real-time data and image transfer, and integration with plant controllers and information networks. Liquid lens technology, an optional...
Products: Imaging
Maple Systems, Everett, WA, offers three widescreen graphic operator interfaces available in 4.3", 7", and 10" sizes. They feature a 400 MHz CPU and 128 MB of Flash and 64 MB DRAM. The 7" widescreen displays...
Products: Imaging
Vision Research, Wayne, NJ, has introduced the Phantom Miro eX-Series handheld digital high-speed cameras available in three models: the Miro eX1, eX2, and eX4. They offer a custom-designed CMOS sensor and are offered in...
Products: Imaging
Single-Board Cameras
Vision Components, Hudson, NH, has introduced the VCSBC64XX series of stereo single-board cameras with a computational power of 7200 MIPS, 256 MB DDRAM, 16-MB Flash EPROM for program and data storage, and can be equipped with multiple head options. The cameras feature the internal VCRT real-time operating system that enables...
Products: Imaging
ProgRes® CT1, CT3, and CT5 CMOS cameras from Jenoptik, Jena, Germany, are equipped with USB 2.0 interface and feature a resolution up to 5 megapixels and a live frame rate to 20 fps. The cameras combine the maximum readout of CMOS...
Products: Imaging
Vivid Engineering, Shrewsbury, MA, offers the CLV-411 Camera Link video splitter that interfaces one camera to up to four frame grabbers using standard Camera Link cables. This enables the use of multiple frame...
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