Imaging and Video Equipment Reference Materials
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Perfect Paintwork with Perfect Inline Paint Defect Control
From: Micro-Epsilon GroupDescription: Is visual appearance everything? Perhaps not everything, but it's certainly a decisive factor! The first impression of a product significantly influences the purchasing decision. Particularly when it ...
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Ensuring Perfection in Both Taste and Looks
From: Micro-Epsilon GroupDescription: For many people, the enjoyment of chocolate brings zest to their lives. But it's not only taste that matters; it should also be a feast for the eyes too. The customer expects impeccable appearance ...
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Everything connected to everything-here comes Industry 4.0
From: Teledyne DALSADescription: Today, your average automotive manufacturer has factories around the globe with robots that can learn to optimize processes, reconfigure on the fly for new products, diagnose and replace their own ...
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Hunting new mining deposits with hyperspectral imaging
From: Teledyne DALSADescription: How much gold remains to be mined on Earth? How about the lesser-known element indium, necessary for computer and smartphone displays? With known sources of some essential metals facing depletion ...
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Seeing into the future with 3D machine vision
From: Teledyne DALSADescription: Around the world, three technologies are rapidly transforming virtually every industry. Automation is spreading across all aspects of production, from supply chain management to final quality control, ...
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The Multiple Smart Camera Myth
From: Teledyne DALSADescription: When smart cameras were introduced about a decade ago, the machine vision industry declared them ideal for simple, straightforward applications such as presence/absence verification or reading bar ...
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Tech Note: When Machine Vision Inspection Comes Up Short: Is "Almost" Defect-Free Enough for Your Customers?
From: Radiant Vision SystemsDescription: Traditional machine vision systems are sufficient for many types of inspection tasks, but they aren't effective for high-precision, low-contrast, and challenging assembly verification tasks. When ...
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Where No Machine Has Gone Before: Automated Assembly Verification that Surpasses Manual Inspection for Speed, Accuracy and Consistency
From: Radiant Vision SystemsDescription: For high-precision, highly-detailed, complex, or low-contrast assembly inspection tasks, Radiant's INSPECT.assembly solution is more accurate than human vision, and offers the speed, consistency, and ...
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Keeping the Power Grid Safe from Attack
From: PHOENIX CONTACT USADescription: SpotterRF partnered with IndustrialENET and Phoenix Contact to improve the reliability of its newest compact surveillance radar system ...
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Boosting Machine Vision with Built-in FPGA Image Preprocessing
From: ADLINK Technology Inc.Description: Since imaging processing tasks can consume major CPU resources in machine vision applications, increasing processing performance within size constraints is, accordingly, a common challenge for ...
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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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Borescope Helps Improve Furnace Operations For Glass Producer Holophane
From: AMETEK LandDescription: Holophane, a leader in lighting solutions since 1921, has implemented AMETEK Land's new Near Infrared Borescope (NIR-B) Glass, an enhanced thermal imager, at its plant in France and now is reaping ...
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INTERACTIVE DESIGN, INC. USES GOCATOR IN ITS AUTOMATED PALLET INSPECTION SYSTEM
From: LMI TechnologiesDescription: As a leading systems integrator, IDI manufactures advanced automation solutions designed to solve a particular problem for each individual client. The company provides these high-performance, ...
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Design Engineering - Vision Masters
From: ATS AutomationDescription: ATS Automation turns machine vision frustrations into product innovation. ...
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Powerful Vision System Adds Control
From: ATS AutomationDescription: When a consumer products manufacturer faced increasing production demand and needed to repeat build an automation line only a few years old, they turned to ATS Automation. ...
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Proof-of-Principle Testing
From: ATS AutomationDescription: Process reliability in production machinery holds the key to maintaining a successful product supply pipeline--that proof-of-principle testing helps deliver. ...
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Vision Systems Design - Imaging the Tube
From: ATS AutomationDescription: Solyndra manufactures tubular solar modules for rooftop installations. A copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin-film material is applied to the inside of a glass tube so that the module can ...
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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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What is Auto Focus?
From: Sentech AmericaDescription: Sentech's Auto Focus Camera Series is specifically designed for medical, low vision and industrial applications. The Auto Focus series features 1/4" and 1/3" CMOS sensors, HD 720p, 60 fps, and a true ...
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What is Line Scan?
From: Sentech AmericaDescription: A line-scan camera has a single row of pixel sensors, instead of a matrix of them. The frames are continuously fed to a computer that joins them to each other and makes an image. This makes possible ...
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What is Progressive Scan?
From: Sentech AmericaDescription: Progressive scanning (alternatively referred to as noninterlaced scanning) is a way of displaying, storing, or transmitting moving images in which all the lines of each frame are drawn in sequence. ...
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Dynisco's ATC990 and UPR900: Technical Notes, Applications and Setup
From: DyniscoDescription: ATC990 Process Controller and UPR900 Process Indicator technical notes, applications and setup. ...
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Thermal Imaging Enhances Today's Complex Glass-melt Process
From: AMETEK 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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A Simple Guide To Understanding 3D Scanning Technologies
From: LMI TechnologiesDescription: At LMI Technologies, solving complex problems in a simple way is the philosophy that guides our passion for developing leading edge 3D technologies. It is because of that guiding philosophy, we have ...
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The Importance of 3D Sensors In Product Inspection
From: LMI TechnologiesDescription: Implementing 3D sensing is rapidly becoming an essential enabler to ensure quality and process control in many applications in factory automation -- delivering results that are impractical with ...
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Why 3D Sensors are a Critical Component in Factory Automation
From: LMI TechnologiesDescription: Factory automation is a broad term representing the technology used in automating manufacturing processes to produce parts. These parts typically involve an assembly of numerous individual components ...
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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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Smart InGaAs SWIR Camera for Volume Applications
From: Xenics nvDescription: Xenics, Europe's leading developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared detectors, cameras and customized imaging solutions from the LWIR to the visible realm, returns to Photonics West with its ...
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Top-notch Space Technology Serving the Industry
From: Xenics nvDescription: Xenics, Europe's leading developer and manufacturer of advanced infrared detectors, cameras and customized imaging solutions from the LWIR to the visible realm, comes to SPIE DCS 2016 with a host of ...
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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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NASA's Remote Hypervelocity Test Laboratory
From: Vision ResearchDescription: A group of engineers at NASA Johnson Space Center White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) are doing their part to protect both astronauts and spacecraft from the perils of space debris hurling through orbit. ...
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Boosting Camera Sensitivity
From: Vision ResearchDescription: Our popular blog series on how to boost camera sensitivity using gain and the resulting trade-offs is now available as a single Phantom Note. To learn more about how a high-speed sensor works, and how ...
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Case Study: NASA's Remote Hypervelocity Test Laboratory
From: Vision ResearchDescription: Vision Research phantom cameras aid in spacecraft and astronaut safety for NASA. ...
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Imaging of Guided and Scattered Light From Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits
From: Xenics nvDescription: "In order to characterize compact planar optical devices it is necessary to couple light from off-chip sources and laboratory based measurement equipment using standard optical fibre technology. Given ...
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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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Portable Border Security
From: Xenics nvDescription: Sensitive areas such as borders require more than ever heightened perimeter security. They are increasingly subject of illegal immigration, unwanted intrusion and other organised crime. A portable ...
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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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SWIR Cameras Can See Through Crude Oil
From: Xenics nvDescription: The behaviour of small water drops falling through a viscous oil, can be investigated by using a SWIR camera. In the infrared spectrum from 900 to 1700 nm, any crude oil is nearly transparent. Why ...
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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 cut-off ...
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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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How can you measure the flare gas in your storage tank?
Description: With new EPA regulations, flaring off gas has become a hot topic. The industry can no longer just flare the gas; it will either have to be captured using a VRU unit or burn completely off with a ...
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Case Study: Stereoscopic Imaging with the Phantom Flex4K
From: Vision ResearchDescription: The Phantom Flex pushed the boundaries of high-speed imaging and with the Flex4K, Vision Research has opened up a new dimension in regard to resolution and frame rate. ...
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Battery-operated flowmeter improves monitoring of district water usage
Description: The challenge: With the expansion of the urban districts they serve, the drinking water management business unit realized that they needed to review the data of billed volume vs. produced volume. ...
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SITRANS FC430 guarantees the greatest accuracy in the denaturing of alcohol
Description: The SITRANS FC430 Coriolis flow meter impresses with the best measurement results and convenient operation. ...
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United Water Solves Big Data Problem with Siemens Magnetic Flow Meter Technology
Description: Siemens SITRANS FM Mag 8000 provides accurate water balance data for water utility in New York, pinpointing line breaks and saving water ...
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Photoelectric Sensor for Sanitary Applications - New O6 Series is Compact, Powerful, IP69K
From: ifm efector inc.Description: ifm is proud to introduce a new line of robust photoelectrics with stainless steel housings that are designed for a variety of applications found in the industrial automation and food and beverage ...
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Photoelectric Sensors with Simple Setup Apply "Time-of-Flight" Measurement via PMD Technology - The O5D Series from ifm
From: ifm efector inc.Description: ifm's O5D Series photoelectric sensors integrate the "time-of-flight" sensing principle with PMD (photonic mixer device) technology to provide reliable sensing in industrial automation applications. ...
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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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Advantages of Digital Panel Meters
From: OTEK CorporationDescription: Variables in processes like temperature, pressure, vibration, frequency, voltage, and current must constantly be monitored. Measuring these variables (and others) requires process control ...
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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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Sourcing the Best Camera for Your Vision System
From: Teledyne DALSADescription: So you need a camera. You're designing a vision system and know your application, your performance expectations, and you have a general idea of how that might translate into camera specifications and ...
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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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Case Study: Vision Research High-Speed Digital Cameras Instrumental in Teaching Construction Site Safety
From: Vision ResearchDescription: There is a good reason construction workers are asked to wear hard hats, gloves, safety goggles, and various other safety equipment while on the job; construction sites are dangerous. Filled with ...
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ATS SmartVision™ Software in Medical Components Success Story
From: ATS AutomationDescription: A major medical component manufacturer needed to guide a robot to pick a randomly oriented needle from a conveyor. Needles are presented in batches on a conveyor belt. A single needle had to be ...
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9-1-1.com: Changing Technology: How the Evolving Communication Landscape is Improving Emergency Notificaitons
Description: The article gives us an indepth perspective on how the evolving communication landscape is improving Emergency Notifications. ...
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Qatargas Case Study
Description: World's Largest LNG Facility Poses Unique Challenges for Public Address/General Alarm System ...
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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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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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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. ...
