The growing demand for more multi-functional cameras has made the machine vision market flush with new and exciting possibilities. Many line scan color cameras are leading the way, allowing the user to have control over each color band in the image without having to use more than one imager. Other manufacturers are incorporating complex, multi-scan functionality directly into their imagers and cameras through custom partitioning: a section that scans 3-D images, a section that performs a traditional grayscale line scan, a section that measures permeability, and so on.
Imagine a manufacturing landscape in which all of the data for a particular product could be gathered from one camera, in one scan, without the need for add-ons of any kind. As camera functionality continues to advance, speed, accuracy, and efficiency have followed suit, allowing for high-definition, multi-scan technology systems that provide multiple spectrums, types, and dimensions from a single camera in a single pass.