Imaging and Video Equipment Reference Materials
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Breaking the Boundaries of Smart Camera and Embedded Vision Systems
From: ADLINK Technology Inc.Description: Automatic inspection by machine vision is leading to the dawn of the "smart factory", eliminating errors resulting from manual operations, as well as improving quality consistency, increasing ...
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4 Reasons Imaging Colorimeter Systems Make Better Display Quality Inspectors than Humans
From: Radiant Vision SystemsDescription: Replacing human inspectors with imaging colorimeters is one way manufacturers can ensure improved, consistent quality in the displays leaving the factory. Imaging colorimeters replicate human visual ...
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Experimental studies on the deformation and rupture of thin metal plates subject to underwater shock wave loading
From: PhotronDescription: In this paper, the dynamic deformation and rupture of thin metal plates subject to underwater shock wave loading are studied by using high-speed 3D digital image correlation (3D-DIC). An equivalent ...
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Large Deployment of Planar Displays at Clemson University
From: Planar Systems, Inc.Description: Clemson is ranked among the top 20 universities in the country in large part for its commitment to delivering 21st century education. Many factors reflect this commitment including the design and ...
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Laser Templating 101 - A Buyers Guide
Description: The objective of laser projection is to create a form of augmented reality to assist a human operator by using existing engineering data in the form of CAD files or 3D models and translate that data ...
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RT and E-Platforms Email Alarms White Paper
From: Convergence InstrumentsDescription: The RT-Platform Instruments (Vibration Sentry RT and Noise Sentry RT) now have software that can detect alarms and even send alarm-emails to recipients. This application note explains the ins and outs ...
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Application Note: Batch Control Systems
Description: Batch control systems are used as an economical and safe way of controlling the amount of product that flows through a system. ...
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Application Note: Ratio Control Systems
Description: Ratio control systems are used extensively throughout industry to optimize the relationship of the mixture between two flows in a processing plant. ...
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Cylmate® Systems - Diesel Engine Performance Monitoring Systems
Description: Therefore the Cylmate system is designed to provide real-time information required by electronically controlled engines in order to optimize the engine operation by closed loop control of the ...
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Thermal Imaging Enhances Today's Complex Glass-melt Process
From: LANDDescription: The move to Oxy-fuels, the establishment of global standards governing emissions, and today's inadequate measurement processes are materially impacting the glass manufacturing industry. The glass ...
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Microscan Visionscape® GigE Camera Performs Precision Measurement of Apertures in Digital Camera Housing at Foxconnsize
Description: Foxconn performs contract manufacturing of components for many renowned electronics companies, such as Chinese electronics company Xiaomi, a manufacturer of smart phones and digital cameras. During ...
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Hidden Structures Made Visible: Non-invasive Art Inspection in the SWIR to Terahertz Realm (EN)
From: Xenics nvDescription: Among the investigative techniques applied to art inspection and restoration, infrared imaging plays an important - and rapidly growing - role. By deploying appropriate sensors and cameras with high ...
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Sensor-based Food Inspection and Sorting
From: Xenics nvDescription: Food inspection based on sensors for the visual, shortwave infrared, UV and X-ray realms in connection with automated sorting and classification methods has become a major field of application for ...
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Signaling Improves Manufacturing Efficiency and Personnel Safety
From: PfannenbergDescription: Accidents. Process upsets. Production downtime. Fire or gas leaks. These and other unexpected scenarios could hamper manufacturing, endanger workers, and threaten facilities and equipment. To help ...
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MWIR (Midwave Infrared) for remote sniffing and locating of gases
From: Xenics nvDescription: Methane is a greenhouse gas that is significantly more damaging than carbon dioxide. When it leaks uncontrolled from industrial plants, it can easily escape into the atmosphere. This is seen primarily ...
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Raman Spectroscopy of Pigmented Human Tissue in the Shortwave Infrared
From: Xenics nvDescription: Researchers at the Erasmus MC University Medical Center and at RiverD International B.V., Rotterdam, the Netherlands, have developed a novel, cutting-edge method of applying shortwave-infrared Raman ...
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Thermal Imaging for Monitoring Rolling Element Bearings
From: Xenics nvDescription: To be reliably operated off-shore wind turbines need an assured downtime and maintenance pattern to keep costs low. A monitoring project carried out by the authors uses an infrared (LWIR) thermal ...
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UDI Compliance Guide
Description: Meeting compliance requirements for the FDA Unique Device Identification (UDI) rule is priority-one for today's medical device manufacturers and labelers. This whitepaper offers guidelines for ...
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Variations in Calibrations of Radiometers Using Cut-on Optical Filters
Description: The spectral bandpass of infrared radiometers using thermopile detectors are often controlled with a 6µm cut-on filter. These filters normally have a cut-on tolerance of +1µm and the ...
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Infrared Radiation and Radiometry Introduction
Description: All solid bodies that have temperatures above absolute zero (0 Kelvin, -273°C) emit electromagnetic waves. The thermal radiation portion of this energy is called infrared radiation. Wien's ...
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Introduction to Thermopile Detectors
Description: Dexter Research Center is a leader in the manufacture of stable, high quality, high output radiation sensing thermopile detectors with a linear dynamic range from the UV to long wave IR. Thermopile ...
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Microscan Gigabit Ethernet Cameras Provide Ampoule Inspection in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Description: Non-contact inspection and measurement is essential in many areas, but it is also difficult to achieve with manual processes and human operators. In image processing, a camera system replaces ...
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Universal panel meter is configurable for measurement, display or control
From: OTEK CorporationDescription: "Units don't require any power other than what the signal can produce, just like analog meters." ...
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Five Things to Know Before Choosing an Embedded Data Acquisition Device
Description: Successful data acquisition for barcode reading or part inspection depends on the ability of the data acquisition device, such as a barcode reader or machine vision camera, to function at peak ...
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The Most Common Causes of Unreadable Barcodes
Description: Item identification and data acquisition through barcodes is critical to the function of automated operations, from assembling smart phones to recording patient data for laboratory samples. When ...
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InGaAs SWIR Cameras Open New Opportunities
From: Photonic ScienceDescription: Shortwave infrared imaging is finding new applications by improving spectroscopy, inspection, and more. ...
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Automotive Industry Case Study: Complete Automated Assembly and Inspection at TRW Automotive
Description: At their facility in Shanghai, TRW Automotive completely automates their assembly line using Microscan smart cameras, barcode readers, and lighting equipment to guide robotics, detect quality issues, ...
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Food & Beverage Packaging Case Study: Machine Vision Ensures Product Quality and Traceability at Del Monte Foods
Description: A comprehensive Del Monte quality initiative uses Microscan vision systems to ensure product code legibility, and improve labeling accuracy and overall traceability of its canned fruits and ...
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Life Sciences Industry Case Study: Smart Camera Ensures Reliable Data Matrix Decoding on Vial Trays
Description: Research institute Friedrich Miescher Laboratory (FML) relies on an all-in-one solution using Microscan's C-mount Vision HAWK Smart Camera to accurately and efficiently read and ensure the presence of ...
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Packaging Industry Case Study: Industrial Lubricant Manufacturer Relies on Machine Vision for Product Quality and Traceability
Description: For industrial and automotive lubricant manufacturer Sinopec Group of Beijing, China, timely and accurate data collection using Microscan's Vision HAWK Smart Camera is central to maintaining process ...
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Blooming vs. Anti-Blooming
From: Apogee Imaging SystemsDescription: Some sensors, including the Kodak KAF series, offer an optional anti-blooming gate designed to bleed off overflow from a saturated pixel. Without this feature, a bright star which has saturated the ...
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CCD Test Methods
From: Apogee Imaging SystemsDescription: The following data sheet is typical of that prepared by Apogee Imaging Systems for each of its imaging cameras. Some of the measurements here are done by design, and some are performed on each camera ...
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Charge Transfer Efficiency
From: Apogee Imaging SystemsDescription: This is a CCD sensor level specification which describes the efficiency of charge transfer. The image from a CCD is read out by transfer of rows into a horizontal register, followed by transfer of ...
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Correlated Double Sampling (CDS)
From: Apogee Imaging SystemsDescription: Virtually all serious imaging systems employ this technique in various manners. Before the charge of each pixel is transferred to the output node of the CCD, the output node is reset to a reference ...
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Dark Count
From: Apogee Imaging SystemsDescription: Next to the quantum efficiency, resolution (number of bits) and noise figure, this is perhaps the most important CCD specification. Dark count refers to that property of all CCD sensors to generate ...
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Data Rate, Transfer Rate, or System Throughput
From: Apogee Imaging SystemsDescription: Manufacturers will describe their system speed with this type of specification. There is no clear standard for how speed is specified and its use varies with each manufacturer. For example, a transfer ...
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Digitization
From: Apogee Imaging SystemsDescription: Digitization, also referred to as analog to digital conversion, is the process by which charge from the CCD is translated into a binary form used by the computer. The term binary refers to the base 2 ...
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Dynamic Range
From: Apogee Imaging SystemsDescription: The dynamic range is often represented as a log ratio of well depth to the readout noise in decibels. For example, a system with a well depth of 85,000 electrons and a readout noise of 12 electrons ...
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Pixel Binning
From: Apogee Imaging SystemsDescription: The mechanism by which charge transfer from a CCD is performed lends itself to on-chip pixel binning. To quickly review charge transfer in a CCD, the following diagram is shown. As light (photons) ...
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Quantum Efficiency
From: Apogee Imaging SystemsDescription: The quantum efficiency (Q.E.) of a sensor describes its response to different wavelengths of light (see chart). Standard front-illuminated sensors, for example, are more sensitive to green, red, and ...
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Readout Noise
From: Apogee Imaging SystemsDescription: Readout noise is specified both for the CCD sensor and the total system. Noise can be thought of in two ways. First, there is not perfect repeatability each time charge is dumped out of the CCD and ...
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System Gain
From: Apogee Imaging SystemsDescription: System gain, also known as inverse system gain, is a way of expressing how many electrons of charge are represented by each count (ADU). A gain of 2.5 electrons/ADU indicates that each count or gray ...
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Telescope Optics & Pixel Size
From: Apogee Imaging SystemsDescription: These questions illustrate the three major issues of matching a telescope to a CCD camera: 1) sampling, 2) pixel sensitivity, and 3) field of view. These issues must be addressed in order to take CCD ...
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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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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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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
Description: 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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Innovations Keep Food Processing Conveyors Flexible
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Innovations Keep Food Processing Cable Conveyors Flexible. Luckily for food manufacturers, conveyor technology has not stood still. A number of vendors have introduced innovations this year that move ...
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Digital Cameras in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for Military and Commercial Uses
Description: 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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Pathology Expertise Achieved with Lumenera's Microscopy Camera
Description: 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 the Visually Impaired At Pedestrian Crosswalks
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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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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[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 ...