Pharmaceutical corporation Boehringer Ingelheim switches to one- hundred-percent testing of medication capsules with digital cameras from Allied Vision Technologies.
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National Instruments announced the addition of Windows OS support and Camera Link connectivity for NI Embedded Vision Systems, providing manufacturing engineers and system integrators three new options to develop high-performance machine vision solutions. Two of the new options featuring Windows support, the NI EVS-1463 and EVS-1464 systems, offer 80 GB storage and are suitable for image and data logging. They are based on the Windows 7 OS, making it possible to develop directly on the deployment system while eliminating the need for a separate PC for the operator interface.
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National Instruments announced the release of a new vision module for the PXI platform that provides a high-performance parallel processing architecture for hardware-defined timing, control and image pre-processing. The new NI 1483 Camera Link adapter module, in combination with an NI FlexRIO field-programmable gate array (FPGA) board, offers a solution for embedding vision and control algorithms directly on FPGAs. Engineers and scientists can use FPGAs to process and analyze an image in real time with little to no CPU intervention.
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Digital imaging technologies are widely used in industrial inspection, product quality testing, automation control and process optimization. Likewise, in agriculture, the use of machine vision can raise productivity, reduce costs and protect the environment in the process. For that reason, researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands have developed a novel system to automatically recognize and combat weeds in the field.
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Flir Systems announced the release of its new A615, an infrared camera that provides both high frame rates and full 640×480 high-resolution imagery. Affordable, compact, and powerful, the A615 provides over 300,000 pixels of accurate temperature measurement data.
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The Currera-R ruggedized Atom based PC camera from Softhard features 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB DDR and 4GB SSD, in a miniature IP67 protected housing. Computational real estate and extensive software support for image processing platforms allow to run common machine vision applications without adaptation, and even run respective development tools right on the camera. With just two image sensor types and smart downsampling Currera-R covers all applications from VGA (100 fps) to 5 Megapixels with 15 fps, true global shutter, HDR imaging, color and B/W.
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National Instruments today announced the addition of machine vision capabilities to NI CompactRIO and NI Single-Board RIO hardware devices that provide engineers with an integrated measurement and control platform for industrial and embedded systems. With this integrated platform solution, CompactRIO becomes one of the only programmable automation controllers (PACs) on the market to perform vision tasks, providing a more efficient, all-in-one design with a smaller physical footprint and less system complexity.
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ImagingLab Srl (Lodi, Italy), a company focusing its activity on the integration of machine vision and robotics, has recently extended its products and expertise portfolio, adding a 360° 3D scanner to their offer.
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