Vision & Sensors - Articles - Page 57

V&S HEADLINE

Ximea Names Framos as Distributor in North America

September 16, 2016

The two companies look to enhance their customers' experience by jointly supporting device OEMs, plant equipment OEMs and system integrators with a team of researchers that are continually producing best of breed solutions for demanding imaging applications.

Aspherical lenses

September 1, 2016

The technology group SCHOTT unconventionally relies on aspherical lenses to increase the effect of LED cold light sources in the illumination of stereomicroscopes in the area of Lighting and Imaging. This delights the experts in laboratories who can now perform microscopy more precisely.

Mobile Terminals

September 1, 2016

Senior Operations LLC Metal Bellows has updated its line of PRIME MOVER pneumatic actuators.

Camera

September 1, 2016

The CamPerform CP 70-1 by Optronis is a high-performance, high-speed camera for high end automation in the machine vision sector and 2D/3D AOI applications.

Camera System

September 1, 2016

Photron, Inc. introduced the PhotoCam SpeederV2.

Vision Interfaces 101

As resolution and frame rates increased over time, so have the requirements for camera interfaces.

Lumenera

September 1, 2016

Since the inception of industrial machine vision cameras, various camera interfaces have been developed to meet the needs of the camera manufacturers.

A Closer Look at 3D Imaging

Capturing the third dimension can be done in many different ways, and each of the machine vision technologies available has its pros and cons.

Jim Anderson

September 1, 2016

There are often many possible ways to solve a specific vision task. In some cases, the choice of either 2D or 3D vision is obvious, but in other cases both technologies could work though each provides certain benefits.

Figure 1. (Top) Camera is normal to the object’s surface. (Bottom) Camera is angled. Source: IDS

How to Set Up a Stereo Machine Vision Solution

Understanding the strengths and limitations of this technology will increase your probability of successful integration.

Kevin McCabe

September 1, 2016

Three-dimensional imaging is a rapidly expanding segment of the machine vision market.

Figure 1: Smart camera or PC based vision system with common vision software. Source: Matrox Imaging

Deploying a Vision System

Integration, adaptation and coexistence are vital for successful vision system deployment.

Pierantonio Boriero

September 1, 2016

Vision systems play a critical role in factory automation. They guide, inspect and track product manufacturing, assembly and packaging to meet today’s quality standards.

Board level cameras for embedded vision applications. Source: Basler

Machine Vision goes Embedded Vision

In this new embedded setting the individual components are combined and become one device, so machine vision becomes embedded vision.

Frank Karstens

September 1, 2016

The term machine vision refers to the ability of machines to visually perceive their environment. A typical setting consists of a camera for capturing the images, a cable which links the camera to a PC, and the PC which does the image processing.