There are two common methods for "painting" a video image on an electronic display screen by scanning or displaying each line or row of pixels, the first is Interlace Scan and the second is Progressive Scan. Progressive scan video cameras are used in a variety of applications in industrial vision, such as machine vision, robotics and military. A progressive scan...
Aegis Electronic Group, the proud recipient of National University's 2007 Peak Performance Award, is sponsoring the 2008 Peak Performance Award in conjunction with National University's School of Business and Management, The San Diego Daily Transcript and Cox Communications. Aegis CEO Carolynn Larson-Garcia has joined the panel of industry expert judges for this years Peak Performance Award. Last year, National University's...
Today, Sony officially announced the impending release of their new addition to the already popular FCB block camera series, the FCB-EX20D/FCB-EX20DP color block camera, a new version of their popular FCB-EX11D/P. These new cameras have a new 1/3-type Super HAD™ CCD II sensor that provides increased sensitivity compared to previous block cameras featuring the successful 1/4-type Super HAD CCD. With...
In my quest to write an article on the integration of Gigabit Ethernet technology in the Machine Vision industry, I ran across a similar article from Test & Measurement World that I will share instead... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The GigE Vision interface standard brings several benefits to machine-vision inspection of PCBs (printed-circuit boards), semiconductors, and wafers. A flurry of product introductions this...
As of September 30, 2008, Toshiba Teli America, Inc., the North American subsidiary of Toshiba Teli Corporation, has a new Vice President of Sales for the Eastern Territory, Joseph Cook. With more than a decade of experience in executive leadership and sales roles, Mr. Cook is ideally suited to contribute to the company's overall growth in the machine vision market...
Hitachi Kokusai Electric's new line of Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) cameras includes 7 camera models of monochrome, color and 3CCD color cameras, all with a GigE Vision interface for ease of use. The new lineup consists of 7 models; a 1.45M pixel 3CCD color camera, 3 single CCD color models and 3 monochrome models with resolutions of VGA, XGA, and SXGA...
In a recent annoucement made by PixeLINK, their PL-B774 Machine Vision and PL-B622C Microscopy lines of USB 2.0, FireWire and Gigabit Ethernet cameras will be discontinued. Discontinued Machine Vision Camera Models to include: PL-B774U (USB 2.0) PL-B774F (FireWire) PL-B774G (GigE) Click here for a complete list of the Machine Vision cameras we have available Discontinued Microscopy Camera Models to include: PL-B622C...
In an unofficial annoucement from PixeLINK, a new, smaller and "sexier" line of FireWire B cameras will be announced at the 2008 Vision Expo being held in Stuttgart, Germany in November. While there is very minimal information released about the new line of cameras, the preliminary information that has been revealed is as follows: The new PL-C series of CCD...
Toshiba-Teli has announced the release of a new FireWire B, smart camera inspection system. The new inspection system includes a very small embedded computer used in conjunction with fast inspection software. This inspection system can be trained to inspect labels, characters, cap integrity, defects on bottles or objects and many other machine vision appplications. The anticipated inspection system hardware will...
In the world of smart cameras, Sony's 100 smart camera series is genius. The 1 GHz VIA pentium-class processor is open to a variety of applications, thanks to its compatibility with leading software packages including Cognex® VisionPro™ software. Remember more with 512 MB SDRAM. Think fast with 90 frames per second (VGA resolution). See the world in monochrome or color...
