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Effictive December 15, 2009, SONY has announced the discontinuation of their XCL-V500 and XCL-X700 Camera Link cameras. The XCL-V500 and XCL-X700 are 1/3 type progressive scan, B/W, C-mount CCD machine vision cameras that capture high quality black and white images at a high frame rate in a lightweight body. As of today there is no word on what the replacement...

In September, the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) announced the first certified SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) commercially available product. The host controller from NEC Electronics Corporation will enable the SuperSpeed USB ecosystem and represents the first step to broad adoption among host and peripheral device manufacturers. NEC Electronics` µPD720200 host controller uses a PCI Express Gen 2 system interface bus, allowing...

Last month, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences made the annoucement that the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three people who have contributed groundbreaking achievements which helped to shape the foundations of today’s networked societies. Charles K. Kao of Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong was awarded "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the...

October 3, 2009 - Arizona based Aegis Electronic Group, Inc., a stocking distributor specializing in the distribution, integration and support of visible and Near IR cameras, components and modified integrated system solutions for industrial and machine vision imaging applications has announced the upcoming release of a new configurable, push button controller created specifically for SONY’s lines of FCB block cameras...

Several months back I wrote a bit on the survival of analog cameras and their place in the industrial imaging industry, "Analog isn't dead yet, Sentech's STC-400 and its counterparts still have a place in industrial imaging." Today I ran across a similar article from Test & Measurement World that I found interesting... Analog cameras still play a role Analog...

Sony Electronics will exhibit its new XCG series of vision cameras using the GigE Vision® interface at the 2009 PACK EXPO show. These four new cameras address a range of vision applications, including a new model that offers ultra-high 5-megapixel resolution and another that provides outstanding image quality in extreme low-light conditions. The GigE interface incorporated in the XCG series...

“Same great interface but a less bulky connector” would be the slogan for the latest proposed Camera Link standard developed by the Japan Industrial Imaging Association (JIIA; Tokyo, Japan; www.jiia.org). The standard has been conceived by Shigeo Oka, chairman of the JIIA and Senior Fellow in the Machine Vision and Medical Imaging Division of Toshiba Teli (Tokyo, Japan; www.toshiba-teli.co.jp), and...

Available towards the end of September 2009, CIS Americas has announced the impending availaibility of their first ever PoCL lite camera, the VCC-GC10V31L.  Weighing less than 20g, encased in a small chassis and about the size of a quarter, this 1/3" CMOS black and white industrial camera is 22mm³ and delivers up to 60 frames per second (fps) at VGA...

Presenting more than 175 education sessions designed and vetted by experts and industry peers to bring you the latest intelligence and techniques from across the security spectrum and around the globe, ASIS 2009 kicks off today (Sept 21) through Thursday (Sept 24) in Anaheim, CA. Aegis Electronic Group, although not exhibiting this year, will be in attendance and walking the...

Two camera control units (IK-HR1CD/IK-HR1CS) and one interchangeable remote head camera (IK-HR1H) make Toshiba Imaging's latest addition to their suite of HD cameras an instant success. The new 1/3" single-chip, true HD progressive scan color 2.1 Megapixel CMOS remote-head camera system is available in two configurations. The IK-HR1H camera head, when used with the IK-HR1CD control unit, outputs full 1920...