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Vision Research introduce the Phantom v640 CineMag camera providing maximum detail at ultra high-speed: 2500x1600pixels @ 1400fps

Infectious diseases causing fever can easily spread due to international travelling. Early detection of elevated body temperature (fever) is crucial to avoiding this spreading. An effective disease-prevention strategy with infrared thermography needs to be in place.

DALSA Corporation recently announced it has advanced the color capability of its Sapera Essential software for machine vision applications. Sapera Essential (Edition 01/2009) is a cost-effective machine vision software toolkit that bundles board-level acquisition and control with advanced image processing capability. It is intended to deliver the critical functionality needed to design, develop and deploy high-performance machine vision applications, while at the same time significantly lowering deployment costs. This version of Sapera Essential provides support for Windows 64-bit and the .Net interface.

Among the many benefits in using the new CEI Bit-Maxx cabling components are greater production efficiencies and lowered overheads. Customisable on request, these high-quality cables comply with CameraLink standards.

A series of top-end cameras offering multiple functionalities that combine high image quality with industrial-grade reliability.

Allied Vision Technologies recently released the AVT 1394 Bus Driver package for Windows. The AVT 1394 Bus Driver eliminates the existing speed limitations of the original Windows driver with 1394b.

JAI recently introduced the CM-030PMCL-RH industrial CCD camera with small remote head and Power over Camera Link (PoCL) digital interface. With many of the advanced features of the other Jai Compact camera series this camera is designed specifically for space and weight constrained applications that require quality with compact size.

The Xeva-FPA-1.7 is an industrial Infrared camera manufactured by a leader in InGaAs sensors - Xenics from Belgium. It is available in 320 x 256 pixel or 640 x 512 pixel resolution and is sensitive up to 1.7 micron wavelength of light which makes it suitable for a variety of applications including night vision.

By replacing several standard cameras with one megapixel camera using Theia’s ultra wide lens, you can save money on installation, monitoring, and maintenance. With Theia's ultra wide no distortion lens on a megapixel camera, the entire wide image is continually recorded, even while digitally panning and zooming from area to area.

AQSENSE recently released their 3D Shape Analysis Library: SAL3D. SAL3D is a C++ software development library for 3D machine-vision industrial applications. It is capable of accurately inspecting parts at production-line speeds. The library features the SAL3D CORE module which has optimised point cloud operations and data types, which provide unparalleled speed and accuracy levels for 3D machine-vision applications.

DALSA Corporation is pleased to introduce the Spyder3 Colour dual linescan camera to provide high colour fidelity, ease of use, and affordable solutions for the fast growing colour imaging market. The Spyder3 Colour camera is based on DALSA’s successful Spyder3 monochrome models using dual line sensor technology. Dual line scan architecture features two rows of pixels and a higher quantum efficiency tripling image sensor responsivity without shot noise penalty. This is invaluable for line scan applications where integration times are short and typically struggle for enough light intensity.

Dual line scan architecture doubles image sensor responsivity without shot noise penalty. Machine vision performance requirements always increase. Over the last decade, feature sizes in applications such as semiconductor wafer inspection have shrunk by a factor of 3.3 in each dimension (~10.8x overall), while wafer areas have grown by a factor of 2.25 (from 200 mm to 300 mm lines) even though wafer throughputs in wafers per hour have remained the same. Measured as the product of speed and resolution, performance has increased by roughly a factor of 25. Nowhere are these demands stronger than in linescan imaging, where integration times are mere microseconds and budget and safety concerns limit the available light.

Photonfocus AG, Switzerland, has recently released the MV-D1024E-3D01 camera which is optimised for 3D profiling using laser triangulation. The MV-D1024E-3D01 camera contains an image pre-processing module that specifically detects laser lines and locates the central axis of the laser line in 3D using triangulation. This enables the 3D profile of an object to be measured by the camera.

Components Express, Inc. is a cable manufacturer specializing in GigE Vision, Camera Link, FireWire and related cable assemblies serving the machine vision industry. Since its inception in 1992 CEI has today become a high quality manufacturer of machine vision cable, power and data products. The high quality in-house manufacturing capabilities and cost-effective international import operations allow CEI to offer both simple components and complex sub assemblies.

Kowa offers high-quality lenses designed and manufactured in Japan for machine vision and industrial applications. Their wide range of lenses caters for any colour or monochrome vision application and provides the highest quality at a cost effective price.

The CamRecord fast cameras from Optronis offer the possibility to capture the movement of a fast event and freeze it to a single image. These cameras can be used for high speed production machinery diagnostics, animation, sport, biomechanics, crash testing and many others that require high speed events to be viewed slower. Offering outstanding speeds and high quality at unmatched low prices the CamRecord series stands out among fast cameras.

Photonfocus has released their Pixel Professor CMOS Smart cameras that feature on-camera image pre-processing. The high performance pre-processing in the camera enables the design of machine vision systems with distributed intelligence.

Common Vision Blox from Stemmer Imaging is an open architecture hardware independent toolkit that supports both PC and embedded smart camera technology. It is acclaimed internationally as having the widest support for cameras and grabbers. It supports classical programming via compilers as well as more modern programming using graphical user interface tools.

Adept is pleased to announce that it has recently been appointed as a distributor for Vision Research for Australia and New Zealand. Vision Research is a world leader in the design and development of high-speed cameras and selected Adept to expand their existing business in Oceania because of Adept's prominence in the region and because of the technical expertise in the company.

NBC is using a super slow motion replay system for gymnastics and track & field events at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The slow-motion replays are being shown on-air as well as archived in the NBC Olympics web site.