The surface metrology requires a confocal laser scanning microscope in order to visualize even the minutest of details (Image: a.bodo / photocase.com)… more

High-speed video cameras provide detailed image capturing for the analysis of fast-moving processes in industrial settings, an obvious factor to optimize processes.… more

A medical research center requires a 3D hand scanner to monitor the progression of rheumatoid arthritis… more

A camera which detects very high differences in brightness, supports in welding processes (Courtesy of Frankfurt University)… more

Isra Vision expands the solar business with acquisition

Isra Vision AG completed the expected acquisition and acquired Graphikon, Gesellschaft für Bildverarbeitung und Computergraphik mbH, Berlin. The ...
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New Alicona subsidiary in France

With its new French subsidiary, Alicona continues its steady growth. Next to France, the supplier of high resolution optical measurement runs offices ...
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Cognex reconfirms its commitment to defend its patents

Cognex Corporation responded to the July 16, 2010 initial determination by an Administrative Law Judge of the International Trade Commission ...
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IDS Goes East: Representative Office in Japan

Industrial camera manufacturer IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH has opened a representative office in Tokyo, from where Christian van der Ploeg ...
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PCIe x4 Frame Grabber Supports Basler's Camera

Silicon Software is introducing a fast PCIe x4 frame grabber. This new grabber supports the Basler A406k/kc at its full bandwidth. Basler's A406k/kc, ...
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PCV Data Matrix Positioning System

The information in Data Matrix code (2D-code) is encoded on a square area as a pattern of dots. Compared to one-dimensional barcodes (1D code), the ...
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Embedded Vision Systems with Windows 7 Options

National Instruments announced the addition of Windows OS support and Camera Link connectivity for NI Embedded Vision Systems, providing ...
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Breakthrough in CCD Speed

Jenoptik has now added two USB camera types to its ProgRes CCD microscope camera range: ProgRes SpeedXT core 3 and ProgRes SpeedXT core 5. ...
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USB 3.0: Promising in Market Penetration

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is the most common serial peripheral interface in the history of computing. Present in virtually 100% of all ... more

Automation Technology Opens up Bin Picking Solutions

It was the year 1963 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. It should take ... more

Image Processing Basics: Contour-based Pattern Matching

Pattern Matching is a method to search for a given template or so-called model within an image. The procedure results in a similarity image with a ... more

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Polarizing Technics

Advances in Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy

From silicon semiconductor manufacture and corrosion analysis, to even archaeological investigations: Surface metrology is rapidly emerging as a ...
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Grab the Future

Bin picking with a 3D Sensor

Isra Vision offers a highly flexible and cost effective solution for bin picking with its new Shapescan 3D sensor. Random parts can be taken directly ...
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Smart, Smooth, Strong

Next Generation Smart Camera for Factory Automation

Over the last decade, the vision industry has produced a variety of "all in one" smart camera solutions to address a range of optical inspection ...
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Speed Booster

Networking Technology Doubles the Speed of GigE Interfaces

Allied Vision Technologies (AVT)'s new range of GigE cameras, the Prosilica GX-Series, combines high-speed and high-resolution. Running at 240 MB/s ...
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