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Articles Tagged with ''imaging systems''

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VISION & SENSORS - LENSES

Protecting Lenses

Imaging systems have specific design requirements to maintain performance without degrading over time.
Lisa Tsang Kyle Firestone
March 9, 2021

Imaging lenses enable machine vision systems to inspect, sort, and measure objects for a variety of applications including manufacturing, robotics, autonomous (self-driving) vehicles, and more. 


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Deciphering Lens Specifications and Choosing the Proper Lens

In the past, cameras were once the limiting component for performance in and imaging system. Today, lenses have become the critical component in many applications.
Lisa Tsang
March 2, 2020

Imaging and machine vision are becoming more integrated into our daily lives. From autonomous vehicles to advanced medical diagnostics, camera and lens systems are now commonplace.


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Better Processing Power Makes Fast and Precise Color Vision a Reality

As manufacturers today face increasingly stringent quality requirements, new and improved color vision technology provides a welcome solution.
James Mortell
December 2, 2019

In the past, the amount of processing power necessary to perform color-based machine vision applications was often an insurmountable hurdle. Even when manufacturers did offer color vision, they would typically convert images to grayscale prior to analysis—a strategy that significantly reduces precision and fails to detect edges defined by similar colors.


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4 Reasons Why CT is the Best Method for Medical Device Quality Inspection

CT is a huge benefit to the medical device industry and will only continue to grow.
Rahul Alreja
October 1, 2019

The medical industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world today, with the U.S reaching a market cap of $156 billion.


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Bruker announced the release of the Luxendo MuVi SPIM CS light-sheet fluorescence microscope for imaging optically cleared samples.

Luxendo MuVi SPIM CS Microscope

December 1, 2018

Bruker announced the release of the Luxendo MuVi SPIM CS light-sheet fluorescence microscope for imaging optically cleared samples. The MuVi SPIM technology allows fast, long-term imaging of large samples with highest resolution and optical sectioning, as well as minimized photodamage.


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Fast-Evolving Smart Cameras are Transforming Machine Vision

Fulvio Pozzalini
July 1, 2018

First introduced in the 1980s, smart cameras or “smart sensors” combine lenses, embedded sensor, processors, interfaces and software together into small, all-in-one vision systems.


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INDUSTRY HEADLINE

Renishaw's RA802 Pharmaceutical Analyser Wins Measurement Award

April 27, 2017

The new RA802 is a compact benchtop Raman imaging system, designed exclusively for the pharmaceutical industry.


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Vision Technologies and the Rise of the Robot

MANUFACTURERS ARE NOW ACTIVELY SEEKING NEW SOLUTIONS THAT CAN HELP FURTHER BOOST PERFORMANCE AND LOWER COSTS.
John Phillips
May 5, 2015

According to Hollywood script writers, robots are either secretly intent on overthrowing humanity or they’re beeping, blinking, and buzzing sidekicks that provide comedic relief.


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When to Consider Inline Illumination

It is critical to consider characteristics of the object you’re imaging and the information you need to extract from the image.
Nicholas James
January 3, 2014
The choice of illumination can often mean the difference between success and failure of an imaging system.


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Vision & Sensors - Lenses

Imaging Lenses Explained

Understand what you can expect to achieve from your imaging lens.
Nicholas James
September 11, 2013
Last time we discussed resolution, working distance, depth of field and field of view, and this time we will be diving into distortion, relative illumination and telecentricity.
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