Engineers have developed a modular vision system targeted at packaging inspection.
Multispectral camera systems are singling out defective potatoes at the rate of 16 tons per hour.
With the introduction of faster megapixel image sensors and cameras, system integrators now require frame grabbers that support higher data rates.
Whether you earn just a pittance or a fortune, one of the rewards of any job is a letter of praise from your employer, customers, or suppliers.
The ChamberCam is an environmental chamber equipped with a vision system that captures images of components under test.
Researchers at the Stanford University schools of engineering and medicine have developed a software-based system called Computational Pathologist, or C-Path, that can objectively and accurately assess images of breast cancer tissues to predict patient survival.
The world's first prototype of a handheld fingerprint drug-testing device has been developed by University of East Anglia spin-out company Intelligent Fingerprinting (Norwich, UK).
In work that could lead to the development of greener aero engines, Manchester University (Manchester, UK) academics plan to measure and image the molecular and particulate species in gas turbine aero-engine exhausts using tomographic imaging techniques.
To more accurately determine the date of the filming of A Trip Down Market Street, Richard Greene of Bio-Rad Laboratories (Hercules, CA, USA) has used photogrammetric analysis to determine that the historic film was most likely taken from March 24–30, 1906, three weeks before the earthquake and resulting fire of April 18 that largely destroyed the city of San Francisco, CA.
By mounting specialized optics onto commercially available CCD and CMOS imagers, researchers are developing low-cost miniaturized imaging systems to tackle applications ranging from multispectral analysis to stress testing and biomedical imaging.
System integrators often rely on individual software packages from well-known vendors such as Cognex (Natick, MA, USA), Matrox Imaging (Dorval, QC, Canada), and National Instruments (Austin, TX, USA).
In Part II of this two-part series, Vincent Rowley, system architect at Pleora Technologies and vice-chair of the GigE Vision technical committee, describes the features and capabilities of the new GigE Vision 2.0 standard.
