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Assembly Required

A work cell with FireWire cameras, extenders, and diffuse fluorescent lighting tracks parts and steps in aircraft engine assembly.

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Facing Interfaces

Proposed interface standards target high-speed and large-format cameras, enabling new ways to increase bandwidth.

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Laser triangulation system measures food products

To accomplish economical product portioning, manufacturers of food slicing and packaging equipment are incorporating volumetric scanning systems into their products.

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Novel Illumination

Proper illumination of any specific part hinges upon choosing the correct color and type of illumination system.

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ProMat and Robots, Vision & Motion Control shows to co-locate in 2011

FEBRUARY 8, 2010--Material Handling Industry of America and the Automation Technologies Council announce that ProMat and The International Robots, Vision & Motion Control Show will co-locate in 2011.

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Specialised Imaging opens US office

FEBRUARY 8, 2010--Specialised Imaging Ltd. has announced it will open a North American partner company—Specialised Imaging Inc.—in April 2010.

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Sofradir supplies additional IR detectors for GMES Sentinel-2

FEBRUARY 2, 2010--Sofradir has been awarded an additional EUR2.5 million contract to provide a second batch of 15-micron-pitch multilinear SWIR arrays for the space-borne Global Monitoring for Environment and Security initiative.

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AIA releases GigE Vision standard v1.2

FEBRUARY 2, 2010--The GigE Vision camera interface standard that has been used by the machine-vision industry since 2006 has recently been updated and Version 1.2 is now available.

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Imaging industry veterans form Vision Systems Technology

JANUARY 29, 2010--Vision System Technology, led by Kris Balch and Terry Guy, will provide customers with the latest technology in digital cameras, lighting, optics, and software.

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Boulder Imaging and Basler announce distribution agreement

JANUARY 29, 2010--Boulder Imaging and Basler Vision Technologies have entered into a distribution agreement for sales and marketing of Basler high-speed cameras. This partnership couples Boulder Imaging's digital video recording and analytic systems with Basler's line of high-speed cameras.

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Vision Insider
Conard Holton
by Conard Holton

BigShot could be a big deal for machine vision

Simpler cameras with embedded intelligence sounds like a good idea. In fact many vendors of smart cameras for machine vision are already heading in this direction, adding FPGAs, DSPs, and CPUs to their products so that their customers can build ever-more...

My View
by Andy Wilson

A possible inconvenience

Several years ago, I had the pleasure of attending a talk presented by Chris Anderson, the author of The Long Tail (www.thelongtail.com). If you have read this nook, you will be aware of its simple but powerful message.



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Fundamentals of Machine Vision: Smart Cameras
Replacing camera and frame grabbers in numerous automation applications, smart cameras have become one of the largest growth areas in machine vision....

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Fundamentals of Machine Vision: High-Speed Imaging
High-speed cameras are often used in factory automation, research, or destructive testing to capture a sequence of events at high speed. This webcast - Fundamentals ...
Integration Insights - 3-D Imaging for Machine Vision
This Webcast - 3-D Imaging for Machine Vision will provide engineers and system integrators with the basic information tools they can use to implement 3-D machine ...
Integration Insights - Machine Vision for Solar Cell Inspection
To meet changing market demands, vendors of solar cells and modules are seeking ways to increase yields and improve quality while lowering costs. In turn, these ...
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Gigabit Ethernet and Line Scan Cameras - Do They Really Fit?
Jan 1, 2009
On a unit-wise basis, a majority of line scan camera applications are still running older 1k and 2k cameras. The market for line scan cameras has been and still ...
GigE Vision - CPU Load and Latency
Jan 1, 2009
GigE Vision has become a powerful, reliable interface in the machine vision marketplace. The GigE Vision standard makes persuasive arguments especially regarding ...
GenlCam - The New Programming Interface Standard for Cameras
Jan 1, 2009
Can an image processing library use a standardized application programming interface (API) to access any feature implemented in any machine vision camera from any ...
Vision Systems Design
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