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3-D flash cameras destined to meet carbonaceous asteroid

May 11, 2012

3-D flash light detection and ranging (lidar) cameras developed by Advanced Scientific Concepts (ASC; Santa Barbara, CA, USA) have been chosen for the OSIRIS-REx planetary science mission that will return a sample of a carbonaceous asteroid to Earth in 2016.

Active pixel sensor gives night vision to Apache pilots

May 11, 2012

Intevac Photonics, a subsidiary of Intevac (Santa Clara, CA, USA), has received a $10m contract to develop a camera for the US Army’s Apache Helicopter.

Oral cancer detected by handheld probe

May 4, 2012

Researchers led by Dr. John Zhang from the University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA) have created a portable, miniature microscope that may help reduce the time taken to diagnose oral cancer.

US distribution deal signed for UK fingerprint drug-testing system

May 3, 2012

Intelligent Fingerprinting (Norwich, UK) has signed a deal with Smart Start (Irving, Texas, USA) granting it exclusive North American marketing and distribution rights for its fingerprint drug-testing device.

Novel Sensors Help Smart Cameras Serve Niches

May 1, 2012

Smart camera vendors are developing products for niche applications using novel optics, filters, and sensors.

3-D INSPECTION: Robots team with 3-D scanners for fast part profiling

May 1, 2012

AV&R Vision & Robotics has developed a system that combines visual inspection, robotics, and 3-D profiling techniques to inspect critical components such as those used in the aerospace and medical manufacturing industries.

AGRICULTURE AUTOMATION: Linescan-based system counts seeds

May 1, 2012

Coleman Technologies Inc. (CTI; Newtown Square, PA, USA) has developed a linescan-based imaging system that counts a variety of seeds at rates of up to 1000 seeds/sec with a counting accuracy greater than 99%.

SEMICONDUCTOR/ELECTRONICS PRODUCTION: Contact image sensors speed solder-paste printing

May 1, 2012

Using an automated optical inspection (AOI) tool based on a contact image sensor system from Tichawa Vision, Ersa's Versaprint solder-paste printer provides a 100% in-line inspection at a speed of 9.1 m/sec.

Rice graduate rolls out his own 3-D camera

May 1, 2012

Graduate student Steven Arroyo of Rice University (Houston, TX, USA) has built a 3-D imaging system using structured light and has detailed the design on The Hackengineer web site.

Looking forward to looking back

May 1, 2012

Any nostalgic feelings for the past may be better put aside with the understanding that the future will only bring with it more exciting technologies, products, and applications.

EMVA severs links with VDMA at tenth anniversary meeting

May 1, 2012

The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is to break away from the German Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau (VDMA) to become an independent non-for-profit association.

Major advance for bionic eye

May 1, 2012

University of New South Wales (UNSW; Sydney, Australia) researchers have unveiled the first microchip which is expected to power Australia's first bionic eye.

Image sensor goes down the throat

April 24, 2012

An image sensor from OmniVision Technologies (Santa Clara, CA, USA) has been designed into Ambu's (Glen Burnie, MD, USA) aScope 2, a single-use intubation videoscope intended for medical procedures such as percutaneous dilational tracheostomy (PDT).

Sensor spots pirates on the high seas

April 19, 2012

Navy unmanned aircraft will be able to distinguish small pirate boats from other vessels when an Office of Naval Research (ONR; Arlington, VA, USA)-funded sensor starts airborne tests this summer.

ESA selects chip vendor to track the stars

April 18, 2012

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded On Semiconductor (Phoenix, AZ, USA) a joint development contract for the next generation star tracker CMOS Image Sensor (CIS), known as the High Accuracy Star Tracker 3 (HAS3).

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