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Point Grey USB 3.0 FAQ & Practical Guide to Machine Vision
Description: SuperSpeed USB 3.0 is the next-generation digital communication technology that offers significant increases in data transfer rates. This FAQ addresses many of the common technical questions regarding ...
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Accurate 360° Spherical Imaging With Multiple Pre-calibrated Sensors
Description: Today, the quality and flexibility of spherical video data make the medium ideal for applications requiring synchronization of video streams. The most famous and typical being GIS applications such as ...
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Position Sensing and Feedback for Contouring Applications, August 2012
From: Festo CorporationDescription: Position Sensing and Feedback for Contouring Applications ...
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Electronics Industry Case Study: Machine Vision Ensures 100% Accuracy for Precision Stamped Parts
Description: Read about Jiaxing Hexin Precision Stamping Technology's machine vision solution for 100% defect prevention in high-speed electronics component manufacturing. ...
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Pharmaceutical Industry Case Study: Machine Vision Ensures Compliance and Traceability in the Supply Chain
Description: Learn how pharmaceutical manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim utilizes Microscan's AutoVISION machine vision product suite to inspect packaging for regulatory compliance and ensure traceability of ...
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Lower Operating Costs and Conserve
From: Badger MeterDescription: Throughout the last decade, awareness of limited energy resources coupled with the drive to minimize operating costs has focused attention on energy management in hydronic heating and cooling systems. ...
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Understanding Machine Vision Verification of 1D and 2D Barcodes
Description: Machine vision verification is one tool that can be used to ensure that barcodes meet a consistent level of quality for readability in an automated process, and that bad codes are identified before ...
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Practicing Sound Medicine
From: TLC ElectronicsDescription: Audible devices are playing an increasingly critical role in modern healthcare. Unfortunately, device manufacturers may not be aware of all the options available to them when it comes to sound ...
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Advanced CBR for Better Image Quality with Limited Bandwidth
From: Moxa Inc.Description: If you're in charge of managing the security system for a facility, then you've undoubtedly had your fair share of "Picasso moments." That is, one or more security camera frames that should show ...
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Electrical Surges & Protection
From: GP:50Description: Voltage transients are generated by both natural and man-made sources. Some of the more common sources are: ...
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FLARE KNOCKOUT TANK
From: GP:50Description: A Flare Knockout Tank is typically a horizontal vessel for trapping hydrocarbon liquids in a gas flare system. Separating the liquids out of the gas stream prevents possible damage further down the ...
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Miner's Fiberscope
Description: Working coal mines need continuous monitoring to protect miners from the dangers of falling rock. In particular, tunnel roofs must be inspected frequently to assess their strength; roof collapses can ...
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Race Car Periscope
Description: Some of the most exciting views in auto racing are those taken from inside the fast moving cars. However, NASCAR officials found that previous roof- mounted cameras gave a slight aerodynamic advantage ...
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Right Angle Video Lens
Description: The customer required observation of a slender rod of extruded material as it passed between closely spaced processing stations. Space constraints were furthered by an enclosure surrounding the ...
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Lumenera's Low Light, Fast Frame Rate Cameras Chosen by Clay Center Astronomical Observatory
From: Lumenera CorporationDescription: Lumenera Low Light, Fast Frame Rate Cameras Chosen by Clay Center Astronomical Observatory ...
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Combining the Best of Analog and Digital Indication
From: Weschler InstrumentsDescription: Measurements of process parameters have historically been accomplished by the analog panel meter (APM). As processes evolved, a need arose for more accuracy in readings. This led to development of the ...
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Panel Meters
From: Weschler InstrumentsDescription: A brief overview of the various panel meter types and their capabilities. ...
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2D and 3D Barcode Printing and Reading
From: Lumenera CorporationDescription: Lumenera's high performance industrial digital cameras are used by industry leaders in the production and verification of complex 2D and 3D barcode labels. ...
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Digital Cameras in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for Military and Commercial Uses
From: Lumenera CorporationDescription: An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is an aircraft that flies without a human pilot onboard, controlled remotely or flown autonomously via pre-programmed flight plans or other automated guidance systems. ...
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Lumenera Supports Next Generation of Young Innovators
From: Lumenera CorporationDescription: Algae is emerging as a promising area of research for energy-efficient producers of biofuels, medicinal products and food. Mikeala has been investigating multi-species algal systems, as opposed to ...
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Optimization of Die Casting Processes Using Infrared Thermography
Description: A very critical point to reach in any die casting process is thermal balance. This steady state thermal equilibrium point is arrived at by the die casting machine in conjunction with all of the other ...
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Pathology Expertise Achieved with Lumenera's Microscopy Camera
From: Lumenera CorporationDescription: Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) is a popular staining method employed by Dr. Koala and is the most widely used stain in medical diagnosis. Hematoxylin stains the cell nucleus a shade of purple, while ...
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Electronics Industry Case Study: Smart Cameras Provide Additional Benefi ts to Auto ID Applications
Description: Automotive supplier Continental AG, Czech Republic division, recently extended the capability of its inspection processes by implementing machine vision to verify label position and print quality on ...
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How to Get the Best Image Quality from Your IP Camera
From: Moxa Inc.Description: As video surveillance transitions from CCTV to IP technology, network integrators must keep pace with a fast-moving market and learn new strategies to optimize image quality. It takes more than just ...
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Pharmaceutical Industry Case Study: Tablet Counter/Filler Incorporates Smart Camera System to Ensure Labeling Accuracy (.pdf)
Description: Modular Packaging Systems' customers require 100% inspection to ensure labelling accuracy and meet the stringent requirements of the pharmaceutical industry. Machine vision technology helps these ...
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An Alarming Situation on Passenger Railcars
Description: Audible alarms have been a mainstay on railway vehicles by choice for many decades, but their use on passenger railcars has been mandatory since 1990 with the introduction of the Americans with ...
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Audible Alarm Basics
Description: From smoke detectors to automobiles, audible alarms (also known to be called buzzers) have become a part of our everyday life. Some of the uses of these alarms are innocuous such as in a microwave ...
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Audible Alarm Use and Equipment Integrity Challenges
Description: The most common type of electronic audible alarm utilizes a piezoelectric transducer. The transducer consists of a metal disc with an attached ceramic material that flexes when voltage is applied. By ...
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Beeps, Bongs, Bangs, And Buzzers... Which Sound Device is Right for Your Application?
Description: These days, it seems that we are constantly being alerted with everything from beeps to buzzers. Personal Computers, virtually all types of home appliances, cars, farm implements, golf carts, medical ...
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Using Audible Alarms in Medical Equipment
Description: The upsurge in audible alarm use in medical equipment cannot be traced to any one cause. Certainly, liability is a big factor, but also the market trend of integrating more and more functions in each ...
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Using Audible Signaling Devices To Assist
Description: The use of audible devices at pedestrian crosswalks to assist the visually impaired across intersections is more popular in Europe than in the U.S. However, that may be changing soon. The broader ...
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Using RoHS to Bring Electronic Audible Alarms into the 21st Century
Description: Even though the RoHS European deadline of July 1, 2006 has passed, many U.S. companies and even entire industries still do not know or care what RoHS means (see the RoHS primer at the end of this ...
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Using Veris Energy Meters in LEED Certification
From: Veris Industries, Inc.Description: LEED certification credits include a number of energy monitoring criteria. To satisfy the requirements for these credits and earn the corresponding LEED points, a building owner or energy system ...
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Using Veris Flow Meters in LEED Certification
From: Veris Industries, Inc.Description: LEED certification credits include a number of water efficiency criteria. To satisfy the requirements for these credits and earn the corresponding LEED points, a building owner or building automation ...
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When did the Alarm in My IUV Go to Harvard?
Description: In 1968, the first true electronic alarm was offered to the market and engineers and system designers grasped pretty quickly that these alarms were a major advance over the current state-of-the-art ...
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You Just Backed Up Over My Foot: Why Didn't I Hear Your Back-Up Alarm?
Description: Audible alarms are used extensively in IUV applications for both problem warning and for safety. An example of using an audible alarm for a warning situation is issuing an audible alert for a low oil ...
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Failure in Outdoor Video Surveillance Systems: What to Do About It
From: Moxa Inc.Description: CCTV surveillance cameras are now a common sight, both indoors and out. In many cities one can find cameras festooned atop traffic poles at all major intersections, capturing traffic video and ...
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Save time and resources by learning about the shape of your materials
Description: Automated Partricle Imaging ...
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3D Visualization for Industrial Quality Inspection
From: Leica Microsystems, Inc.Description: Vertical resolution in the balance between numerical aperture and depth of field. Surface analyses, fracture analyses, analyses of inclined or vertical surfaces or onsite inspections of large parts ...
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Nanotopics: System Resolution
From: Nanotronics ImagingDescription: Although well defined, system magnification and resolution are often misunderstood. We are really concerned with the system resolution - the ability of a system to quantify detail in an image. To ...
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[Application] Steel Factory Integrates IP Video Surveillance into Automation - EDS 518A Series
From: Moxa Inc.Description: The truck scale systems used in steel plants to measure and weigh steel bars is an essential element of the steel manufacturing process. To prevent errors in the process, video surveillance is often ...
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Mobile Imaging Application for Pavement Condition Assessment
From: NorPix, Inc.Description: The purpose of this application of mobile imaging technology is to perform a Network Pavement Condition Assessment for the entire roadway network maintained by Cities and Counties. ...
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Video referencing and facial mocap
From: NorPix, Inc.Description: OS / Hardware / Drivers Recording Playback Color Processing Compression & Codecs Triggering and I/O Network & Remote Operations Interface & Customization Utilities Support 3rd Party Support ...
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AVT Cameras Inspect Airbag Inflator
Description: Airbags have become a standard equipment of most modern cars. Driver and passenger airbags, side airbags and curtain airbags deploy within milliseconds to protect our lives in case of an accident. The ...
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Cameras in ITS - A Constant Evolution
Description: Cameras are an essential component of any ITS system. For example, in open road bridge tolling and congestion charging cameras are used to enforce transponders, whereas for speed enforcement, cameras ...
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http://www.alliedvisiontec.com/us/news/news-display/article/-ff35018918.html
Description: Spectacular interactive sphere relies on AVT Guppy PRO camera for vision-based human interaction. ...
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RobotEye system gives high-speed, high-precision freedom of movement to artificial vision.
Description: New concept of high-precision and highly flexible vision system for outdoor surveillance relies on AVT GigE Vision cameras. ...
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How Tare Value Is Used In Weighing Systems
From: Hardy Process SolutionsDescription: Learn how tare value is used in weighing systems. ...
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Case Study: 16 Megapixel at Work
Description: Operating since 1993, Matrix Systems & Solutions provides process manufacturers with packaging execution and warehouse management system applications, as well as consulting and professional services. ...
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Case Study: 3D Quantitative Analysis of Cancer Biosignatures
Description: VisionGateâ s innovative Cell-CTâ ¢ platform technology is breaking new ground in the field of quantitative cell analysis by virtue of its unique ability to compute the true 3D internal structure of ...
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Case Study: A Smarter View of China's ITS Infrastructure
Description: Since the 1978 reform, Chinaâ s economy has grown steadily at an average rate of 7-8% per annum, becoming the fastest growing major economy in the world with a nominal GDP of about US$5 trillion in ...
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Case Study: Advertising in the Third Dimension
Description: With the Virtual Stage, advertisors are discovering a new dimension: the floor. This innovative system, using digital image-processing with cameras from Allied Vision Technologies, transmits ...
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Case Study: AVT Cameras Inspect Airbag Inflator
Description: Airbags have become a standard equipment of most modern cars. Driver and passenger airbags, side airbags and curtain airbags deploy within milliseconds to protect our lives in case of an accident. The ...
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Case Study: AVT helps Laetus with Camera Cure-All
Description: Leading provider of quality control solutions for pharmaceutical industry standardizes camera module with special development from Allied Vision Technologies. Good health is prized by individuals and ...
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Case Study: AVT Pike Keeps Old Film Memories Alive
Description: FilmFabriek, a Dutch company based in Nootdorp in the outskirts of Den Haag, Netherlands, has started the distribution of an innovative film scanner that relies on high-performance machine-vision ...
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Case Study: AVT Pike Makes Foosball Robot Nearly Unbeatable
Description: Fachhochschule Köln (University of Applied Science of Cologne), founded in 1971, is the outcome of an amalgamation of renowned predecessor institutions. These included â factory schoolsâ (Kölner ...
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Case Study: Caught on Camera
Description: The traffic control industry is an ever-growing market with new infrastructures being built worldwide, with, for example, the trans-European road network expected to grow by 4,800km per annum until ...
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Case Study: Coming to a street near you
Description: Launched by Microsoft in May 2009 the Bing search engine has recently broadened its horizon with the revamping of its Bing Maps Streetside service. The service that was launched to compete with ...
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Case Study: Cotton Interlaced
Description: How Guppy interlaced digital cameras provided an easy and affordable migration from analog to digital interface in Premier Evolvics' cotton testing machines in India. Premier Evolvics Pvt. Ltd. is a ...
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Case Study: Do perfect eyeglasses exist?
Description: Rodenstock is one of the global leaders in ophthalmic optics and employs about 4,500 people. Whether itâ s eyeglass lenses or eyeglass frames â the Rodenstock brand stands for products of highest ...
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Case Study: Drop by Drop Inspection
Description: JetXpert is a sophisticated drop-in-flight analysis system designed by ImageXpert using Stingray high-speed digital cameras from Allied Vision Technologies. The system is used by major ...
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Case Study: Effective Medicine
Description: Pharmaceutical corporation Boehringer Ingelheim switches to one- hundred-percent testing of medication capsules with digital cameras from Allied Vision Technologies. Hardly any industry is subject to ...
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Case Study: Every Nook and Cranny
Description: The Mephisto Extreme 3D-Scanner from 3DDynamics relies on AVT Pike digital cameras to scan objects, humans, animals or plants with the highest possible precision in three dimensions. 3DDynamics ...
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Case Study: Eye Robot
Description: Robots are nothing new in industrial assembly. For example, everyone has heard of the heavy yet highly precise one-armed soldering or painting robots of the auto industry. Such systems take over ...
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Case Study: Freezing the Shot
Description: Operating since 1993, Matrix Systems & Solutions provides process manufacturers with packaging execution and warehouse management system applications, as well as consulting and professional services. ...
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Case Study: Full Scale Testing
Description: The National Research Council of Canada Institute for Aerospace Research (NRC Aerospace), Canada's national aerospace laboratory, conducts research and development in the full range of issues related ...
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Case Study: GC650 in Wood Industry Measurement System
Description: Canada is one of the world's preeminent manufacturers of high quality wood products and also the largest exporter of wood products. In addition, about 75% of Canadaâ s structural wood panel production ...
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Case Study: GE4000 Observes Gamma-Ray Phenomena
Description: The Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University in Russia uses Prosilica GE4000 GigE Vision cameras to detect and measure gamma ray bursts. The scientific team of the Sternberg ...
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Case Study: Giant Billboard on Times Square Uses AVT Camera for Interactive Advertising
Description: The Big Apple is world famous for spectacular, giant advertising billboards illuminating New York Cityâ s never sleeping night. Over the years, a technology that started with simple light bulbs and ...
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Case Study: GigE Vision for 3D Medical Research
Description: Rheumatoid Arthritis is a widespread autoimmune disease that attacks many tissues and organs, but principally affects synovial joints (hands, feet, knees and elbows) causing chronic inflammation as ...
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Case Study: GigE Vision Goes Underwater
Description: With seafood exports totaling $2 billion in 2006 and accounting for half of Alaskaâ s total export value, the fishing industry is Alaskaâ s largest employer and one of the Stateâ s main economical ...
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Case Study: GigE Vision Rock Solid in Harsh Mining Environments
Description: South Africa boasts an abundance of mineral resources and is a leading producer of precious metals such as gold and platinum. The mining industry is the countryâ s largest employer with around 900,000 ...
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Case Study: Here Comes the Sun
Description: Based in Pasadena, California, eSolar is one of the half dozen startups currently building Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants in the Southern California desert. The company has developed a ...
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Case Study: High Resolution Inspection for Dental Imaging System
Description: Applied Scintillation Technologies (AST) is a UK based manufacturing company that specializes in developing advanced imaging and detection systems in the dental, security, medical and health physics ...
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Case Study: Imaging Makes Agriculture Greener
Description: 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 ...
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Case Study: In Small Doses
Description: Established in 2006, Manchac Technologies, L.L.C. designs and develops advanced pharmacy automation products aimed at long-term care, retail and assisted-living facilities. Automation was only ...
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Case Study: Mass and Class
Description: Even for small mass-produced parts, it is worth it to use industrial image-processing systems to guarantee first-class quality. At NP Plastics, small plastic rollers for document binders are checked ...
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Case Study: Mobile machine vision system featuring AVT GigE cameras surveys pavement condition.
Description: Southeastern Surveying & Mapping Corporation (SSMC) is a land surveying company that uses mobile machine vision-based technology to perform network pavement condition assessments for the entire ...
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Case Study: Motion Capture With AVT Cameras Makes Orthopedic Diagnosis Easier
Description: With the aid of high-speed Pike cameras and SIMI Motion Software, doctors and scientists are researching musculoskeletal dysfunction and can already offer new therapies to patients, tailored to their ...
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Case Study: Musical Amoebae
Description: Electronic music instrument Reactable turns images to sounds. The experimental synthesizer was developed by a research team of the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona (Spain). The Pompeu Fabra ...
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Case Study: Packaging Inspector
Description: Packaging is an extremely important part of food products for the consumer market, as it fulfills a number of functions. Most importantly, proper packaging is essential for the preservation of ...
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Case Study: Perfect Swing
Description: With two Pike digital cameras from Allied Vision Technologies, â Swing & Seeâ helps recreational golfers to practice their swing like professionals do. R&D Vision is a French company specialized in ...
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Case Study: Prosilica Cameras Capture the Thrill of Roller Coaster Rides
Description: Based in Montréal, Québec, 3db Solution Inc. designs and sells customized photography systems including green screen photo systems, wireless roving photo systems and ride photo systems, to amusement ...
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Case Study: Prosilica Cameras Go Airborne
Description: Established in 1949, the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is a science-based laboratory dedicated to support the U.S. Department of Energy on nuclear & energy research, science and national defense ...
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Case Study: Prosilica GC GigE Camera in Coral Reef Fish Study
Description: Prosilica GC GigE Vision Cameras used by research team of New Jersey Institute of Technology to assess population of endangered fish species in coral reefs. Recent studies have shown that a third of ...
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Case Study: Prosilica GC650C in DARPA Urban Challenge
Description: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge was created in 2004 to promote the development of robotic vehicles following a US Congressional mandate. The latter stipulates ...
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Case Study: Prosilica GigE Vision Cameras Tested for New NASA Recording System
Description: Prosilicaâ s GigE Vision GC Series Cameras are being tested by NASA as the Agency is looking to upgrade one of its existing space shuttle video/camera recording systems. Developed by image acquisition ...
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Case Study: Quality Down to the Last Detail
Description: The worldâ s largest independent development partner, EDAG develops customized concepts and solutions, optimized for production, to meet the mobility needs of the future. The companyâ s holistic ...
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Case Study: Real-Time 3D Cinema under the Microscope
Description: At VISION 2009, Allied Vision Technologies presented an innovative stereomicroscopy application. Thanks to TYTEC Software and AVT GigE Vision HD cameras, a stereo microscope can display ...
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Case Study: Real-Time 3D-Reconstruction With GigE Vision
Description: The 3-D Imaging Lab at the University of Kentuckyâ s Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments has extensive experience in the area of 3-D and is credited with developing 3-D systems in the ...
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Case Study: Sixteen Eyes Can See Better Than Two
Description: AICON 3D Systems GmbH is one of the world leading providers of optical camera based 3D measurement systems. The company located in Braunschweig, Germany, develops and distributes systems for the ...
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Case Study: Space Robot Robonaut
Description: Built in partnership with General Motors (GM) and the Oceaneering Space Systems of Houston, NASAâ s Robonaut (R2) is the second generation of highly dexterous humanoid robot designed to work alongside ...
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Case Study: Underwater Vision
Description: Now in its 13th edition, the RoboSub challenge, co-sponsored by the AUVSI foundation and the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR), aims to advance the development of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles ...
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Case Study: View Catcher
Description: SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) is a world leader in dedicated computer vision applications, developing and marketing eye & gaze tracking systems and OEM solutions for a wide range of applications. ...
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Case Study: Virtual Prototypes
Description: Using â Augmented Reality,â auto manufacturers can integrate virtual CAD prototypes into actual modules or vehicles to find and solve assembly problems before production begins. The Unifeye ...
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Case Study; Playing in the Sandbox
Description: The US Geological Survey (USGS) is renowned worldwide for its studies on the environment. The organization aims to provide reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth. One of ...
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Ask Doc, TTL
Description: This topic comes up quite a bit. TTL stands for Transistor-Transistor Logic. You'll see this referred to in some specs and manuals and it simply means that your setpoints will generate either zero or ...
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Power Your Rolling Stock Viedo Surveillance Applications with a Rugged NVR
From: Moxa Inc.Description: Network Video Recorders (NVRs) are now widely used in rolling stock applications for surveillance and security purposes, and thus require a substantial storage capacity for storing large video files. ...
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How do I distinguish between various DVI configurations?
From: L-com, Inc.Description: View DVI connector interfaces that can be identified by pin configurations. Including: DVI-A, DVi-D and DVI-I... ...
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About NEMA and IP Standards
Description: There are two major electrical manufacturing organizations monitoring product enclosures and/or their degree of protection; each organization also publishes technical manufacturing standards. The ...
