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Daily Product Highlights 2006 p11 of 22:

• Board converts four channels
  Tetra-PMC+ board is a high-speed analog input board that provides data capture for four 14-bit A/D channels running at up to 105 MHz, streaming the data directly to an Altera Cyclone II reconfigurable FPGA. The Cyclone II provides control over the A/Ds and handles the distribution of the high-speed converted data while providing configurable preprocessing of the data, enabling digital filtering, decimation, and digital down conversion.
• Wizard eases lens decisions
  Automated lens selector, the Optical Wizard, generates basic and customized solutions for machine-vision applications. After entering fundamental parameters of an imaging system, such as field of view, working distance, camera format/sensor size, or type of camera mount, the Optical Wizard offers a step-by-step process for adding motorization, lighting, polarization, and various mechanical features.
• Sensor has expanded FOV
  KAC-00400 is an optical-format image sensor that can capture still and motion images. Designed in a wide-VGA format (768 ? 488 pixels) that offers 20% more pixels than a standard VGA sensor, the expanded field of view provides additional data for pattern-recognition and object-detection algorithms. Frame rate is 60 frames/s, allowing capture of rapid movements.
• DataMatrix library updated
  Combined with a DataMatrix code reader, intelligent cameras can identify 2-D codes that are, for example, printed on pharmaceutical drug packaging. Depending on the camera type, DataMatrix 4.2 enables up to100 readings/s. This is made possible by the integration of the fast library software FASTlib. Another add-on is the IMG 3.C tool for cameras without video output.
• Subsystem has two heads
  Matrox Nexis, an image-acquisition subsystem, features two remote camera heads combined with a dual camera-control unit and frame grabber on a single PC/104+ card. Matrox Nexis supports simultaneous acquisition from the two camera heads. The camera heads make use of interline-transfer progressive-scan CCD image sensors with square pixels.
• Lens gives multiple FOVs
  FlexLens is available with 1--4 arms; each arm transmits an image back through the system into a C-mounted camera. The images can be combined or processed individually. The FlexLens features integrated LED-based illumination for applications with a short working distance and optional fiberoptic illumination for applications with longer working distances or where more light is required.
• Card captures video in real time
  Aexeon Quattro is a real-time, four-channel video capture and compression card for multiple camera applications. Each asynchronous video channel is fully independent, allowing for complete control of resolution, frame rate, video adjustment, and compression parameters per camera input. Aexeon Quattro comes equipped with a multipicture video output, image-processing functions, on-board motion detection, watchdog timer, I/O triggers, and relay alarm outputs.
• Sensor has Camera Link interface
  Mini-CIS provides contact image scanning in a package designed for use in computer vision systems and custom document scanners. Four models provide 100-, 200-, 400-, or 600-dpi resolution over a 216-mm active length. The Mini-CIS includes an internal red LED illuminator and a GRIN lens focused at the outer surface of the glass window. There is also a video processor providing correlated double sampling and automatic black-level control for the segmented CCD sensor array.
• Cameras support three sensors
  EagleEye II series smart cameras support three kinds of area sensors: progressive CCD (1280 ? 1024 B/W and color), global shutter CMOS (720 ? 480 B/W and color), and rolling-shutter CMOS (2048 ? 1536 color). They have a shutter time of 10 μs to 20 s; the trigger delay is a constant 10 μs; and they are powered by a TI 32-bit DSP (600 MHz).
• Cameras fit multiple applications
  Scout family of cameras is based on Sony CCD or Micron CMOS sensors and offers a variety of resolutions and speeds. Resolutions run from VGA to 2 Mpixels with either FireWire-b or GigE Vision interface, and provide up to 12 bit depths and no bandwidth limitation on 8-bit data flow inside the camera.

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