CMOS
cameras get "Smart" and easy.
Pixel
Professor™ from Photonfocus™
Photonfocus ™ – a leading manufacturer in CMOS industrial
cameras - 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.
By performing pre-processing on the camera the vision system computer
CPU load is reduced dramatically. As a consequence the vision system can
run faster or use more sophisticated algorithms in the same time period
producing better results. The technology is scalable and can be fitted
to a customer’s application.
The Pixel Professor™ supports common image pre-processing operations
in pipelined processors such as convolution and non-linear filters, histograms,
erosion and dilation, adaptive thresholding, Image buffers, image arithmetic,
colour space conversion, Look-Up Tables (LUT), triangulation and others.
Setting up the pre-processing unit on the Pixel Professor is made easy
with a very simple graphical user interface (GUI). It's simply a matter
of connecting elements with lines. It allows for control loops and multiple
passes.
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Alongside standard operators customised operators can be implemented.
Alternating frame capture setups can be realized with an embedded sequencer
to achieve maximum frame rates. With in-built pre-processing hardware
in the camera reliance on specialized frame grabbers or other hardware
accelerators is removed.
The Pixel Professor™ cameras output pre-processed
images via USB 2.0 or GigE. No frame grabbers are required.
The benefits of the Pixel Professor™ cameras include:
- Reduction of pre-processing time increases frame rate
- Enhanced algorithms with same CPU-load compared to software image
processing
- The Pixel Professor™ complements the superior features of CMOS
cameras
- Real-time processing of up to 640 Megapixel per second (Mps)
- “Zero” latency
The Pixel Professor™ series includes four models. Three of these
belong to the MV-D1024E-PP01 Camera Series - MV-D1024E-PP01-40 (37fps),
MV-D1024E-PP01-80(75fps) and MV-D1024E-PP01-160 (150fps). These cameras
feature Pipeline processing with 1024 x 1024 pixel resolution, global
shutter, Superior Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), LinLog® functionality
and CameraLink® interface
The fourth Pixel Professor™ camera is the SM2-D1024-80 which is
a Smart CMOS camera with 1 GHz DSP. This camera features 1024 x 1024 pixel
resolution, global shutter with up to 75 fps @ full resolution, Superior
Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), 256 MB SDRAM and 2 GB SD-Card.
The Pixel Professor™ cameras have a wide range of applications:
Machine
vision
- Standard vision applications
- PCB inspection
- Laser triangulation
- Quality control
- OCR
- Form and Attendance Verification
- Welding and soldering
- Laser triangulation
- Packaging inspection
- Keyhole analysis
Motion analysis
- Slow-motion sequences
- Biomedical applications
Adept Electronic Solutions are "The machine vision and imaging specialists"
providing expert advice and timely support. To find out more about the
Pixel Professor™ cameras or any other Photonfocus™ product
please email us at: adept@adept.net.au,
call us at Perth (08) 92425411 / Sydney (02) 99792599 / Melbourne (03)
95555621 or use our online contact
us form.
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