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    Imaging Boards and Software

    Frame grabbers target embedded imaging

    April 3, 2014
    Both the VME and CompactPCI computer architectures allow different types of computer and peripheral I/O boards to be configured as industrial embedded systems.
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    Cameras and Accessories

    Using optical filters to enhance image contrast

    April 3, 2014
    Obtaining the highest image contrast is probably the most important factor in designing any machine vision system.
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    Vision enhances undercarriage security

    April 3, 2014
    To ensure that drugs, weapons or even individuals are not illegally entering a country across its borders, customs and border protection officers must routinely examine the undercarriag...
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    Modular vision system eases printed circuit board traceability

    April 3, 2014
    Today's portable cell phones, tablets, and electronic devices require increasingly smaller printed circuit board (PCB) footprints.
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    Emerging

    Image Sensors: Novel sensor designs tackle multispectral applications

    April 3, 2014
    While the Bayer filter is perhaps the most well-known color filter array currently in use, a number of recent variations of both filter and photodiode structures have led to the...

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    Cameras: Low light level cameras appear at Photonics West

    April 3, 2014
    If there was one trend that was apparent at this year's Photonics West show, held in San Francisco in February, it was that of low-light-level imaging.
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    Cameras and Accessories

    3D imaging estimates pothole volume

    April 3, 2014
    As well as creating dangerous driving conditions, potholes may collect water that may further degrade the condition of the road.
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    Cameras and Accessories

    March 2014 snapshots: Computer vision and Google's Project Tango, Vision system identifies tumors, 3D movie of living sperm, marsupial robot

    April 3, 2014
    Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute and Department of Neurosurgery (Los Angeles, CA, USA) have developed a vision system that uses a CCD camera...
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    What makes a product unique?

    April 3, 2014
    Whether they be the latest high-resolution CMOS imagers, high-speed frame grabbers, lighting products or software packages, novel products are not difficult to find in the machine...