With speeds up to 6.25 Gbits/s, the CoaXPress high-speed image transfer interface offers designers a way of extending camera-to-computer interfaces to 40 m.
Railway tunnels, bridges, and underpasses can be imaged at high speeds using linescan and area-array cameras.
High-performance LEDs are replacing halogen and metal halide lamps in fiber-optic illumination systems.
Many fascinating products and technologies were on display during VISION 2010, held in Stuttgart last November. Indeed, the tradeshow was proof beyond question of the vitality and creativity to be found in the machine-vision world. This creativity nurtures the growing number of machine-vision applications, which further drive the industry.
The interiors of drains, train tunnels, and arteries are not so dissimilar, and designers of machine-vision systems should bring 3-D imaging to this frontier.
In November 2010, the EMVA announced the latest revision to EMVA-1288, Version 3.0, which allows monochrome and color area and linescan cameras with linear photoresponse characteristics to be compared.
To overcome limitations in conventional fixed-focus-lens-based cameras, a few manufacturers have developed lightfield cameras that, like traditional cameras, gather light using a single lens but place an array of lens elements at the image plane.
In medical imaging, spectral characteristics can be used to determine skin pigments and accurately predict different types of skin cancer. To perform these tasks, the spectral signature of the material or objects must first be determined.
The importance of jitter and latency to those deploying standard cameras and frame grabbers is application dependent, according to Eric Carey, R&D director of DALSA.
To eliminate the manual labor associated with unloading cast-iron plates for assembling stoves while at the same time increasing throughput, the manufacturer, Jøtul, enlisted Tordivel to develop a vision-guided pick-and-place system.
