Smart cameras

What’s the status of autonomous vehicles in industrial applications? Part 1

January 18, 2019 By Randy Frank

First of all, what is an autonomous vehicle (AV)? The SAE provides classifications that many industries use for vehicular products. For automated driving, SAE has five classifications for on-road vehicles. In SAE J3016, Level 1 through Level 5 define increasing amount of automation and Level 0 designates no automation. Level 3 through Level 5 provide […]

New Phantom S210 and S200 streaming cameras from Vision Research

January 11, 2019 By Lisa Eitel

Vision Research, a leading manufacturer of digital high-speed Phantom imaging systems, has introduced the Phantom S210 and S200, 2Gpx/sec (16 Gbps) machine vision cameras. The S210 reaches 1,730 frames per second (fps) at full 1.3Mpx resolution, while the S200 achieves 7,000 fps at full 0.3Mpx VGA resolution. Both cameras provide the frame rates and throughput […]

High-resolution global shutter image sensors for machine vision applications

September 25, 2018 By Mike Santora

OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a developer of advanced digital imaging solutions, has announced two new high-resolution additions to its family of global shutter image sensors—the OG02B1B/OG02B10 and the OV9285. These new sensors are designed to be cost-effective solutions for a wide range of consumer and industrial machine vision applications. In particular, OEMs developing products for high-growth […]

Smart photoelectric sensor from Balluff is easily configured via IO-Link

August 17, 2018 By Mary Gannon

Generating, transporting and processing information are central tasks in the Industry 4.0 environment. The basis for all this information is intelligent sensors which provide the required input. With its new BOS 21M ADCAP, Balluff has created a smart photoelectric sensor. The versatile all-rounder uses red light and lets you choose from among four sensor modes: background […]

What’s new in robotic sensing?

July 20, 2018 By Randy Frank

At 2018 Sensors Expo in San Jose, CA, Jacob Hicks, an Applications Development Manager from Omron Electronic Components, discusses including sensors in the Omron LD autonomous robot. The robot is linked to sensor technologies from Omron including cross-referenced Raspberry Pi based cameras to provide locations and status information, similar to what might be required in […]

Teledyne DALSA’s newest Genie Nano camera

February 21, 2017 By Mike Santora

Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company, has introduced a new model to its Genie Nano GigE Vision camera series. Built around the ON Semiconductor AR1820HS 18 Megapixel, backside illuminated (BSI) image sensor, this camera (C4900) brings system integrators and OEMs even greater choice from a growing number of Genie Nano models powered by more than […]

What does it take to create natural virtual reality imaging?

February 7, 2017 By Randy Frank

At CES 2017, Jeremy Miller for HumanEyes Technologies describes how a Vuze 360-degree camera can be used to provide a virtual reality 3-D video. The Vuze has 4 pairs of Full High Definition (FHD), 180 x 120 field of view (FOV) lenses. With the company’s proprietary software, the stereoscopic cameras provide a more natural 4K […]

Baumer LX VisualApplets industrial cameras with image preprocessing

April 4, 2016 By Andrew Zistler

Baumer is pleased to announce series production of LX VisualApplets cameras with integrated image preprocessing. These cameras are capable of image preprocessing in the camera’s FPGA without the need for expensive and complex VHDL programming. They utilize the graphical programming environment VisualApplets by Silicon Software, thanks to which even non-expert users without extensive programming experience […]

Full HD WDR cameras with Sony CMOS sensor IMX236

September 2, 2015 By Mike Santora

The Imaging Source, an international manufacturer of machine vision cameras, has just announced the immediate availability of new industrial cameras with the Sony Full HD WDR Sensor IMX236. The cameras feature compact, robust industrial housing with C/CS- or S-Mount and are available as GigE (PoE) and USB 3 versions in monochrome and color. With integrated […]

VRmagic’s new frame grabbers for both end users and developers

August 13, 2015 By Zak Khan

VRmagic’s AVC-2 is a range of high-performance frame gabbers that can be used in many different ways for the implementation of machine vision applications. The converted digital signals are transmitted in real time via composite, Y/C, or S-video, in monochrome or color mode. The AVC-2 is available as USB version and as intelligent version. The […]