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News Release from: Accu-Sort Europe | Subject: Auto-ID cameras
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 August 2006
ID camera reads small bar codes at high
speed
Enhancements made to an advanced automtic ID camera allow it to read smaller bar codes at higher speeds with wider belt coverage and faster data transmission speeds.
Accu-Sort, the pioneer in auto-ID cameras, has introduced a series of enhancements to its most advanced camera, the AccuVision AV40002.0, that allow it to read smaller bar codes at higher speeds with wider belt coverage and faster data transmission speeds The enhancements come less than a year after Accu-Sort launched the system, which combines the company's newest long-range camera, illumination and decoder into a single package
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 10 Feb 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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The AV40002.0 offers brighter LED illumination for cameras with high far working distances, faster data transmission for smaller barcodes at faster belt speeds and dual camera head installations for wider belt coverage.
The system was recently put to the test with a retail customer whose application required a camera that could decode small bar codes on a wide belt and transmit the data in less than a second.
The application required 550 fpm belt speed, codes down to 10 mil and LED illumination on a belt up to 39 in.
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wide.
To meet the challenges, Accu-Sort engineers created three innovations.
* New illumination - since the application required LED illumination, a redesigned LED was required.
A new 10in Fresnel system (vs.
the 6-in.
standard) was implemented on the front and back read coplanar LED systems to provide sufficient lighting for the camera system to reach the required read rates.
* Fast frame grabber - the standard Acculink card has a maximum transmission rate of 78Mb/s.
Based on the camera design requirements (135mm lens, 6K/4tap sensor and 185 LPI), the data transmission rate required was 128Mb/s.
This required the implementation of the new high-speed frame grabber option.
Wider belt coverage.
Since the belt coverage on a 135mm/6k/4tap lens/sensor configuration is limited to 32in and the application called for 39in belt coverage, Accu-Sort developed a new dual camera coplanar system that allowed camera read heads to be installed in a single 10in LED coplanar illumination system to ensure that all boxes on the belt were read.
"The bar for high-performance image capture and analysis continues to get higher and higher," said Andrew Ross, product marketing manager for Accu-Sort.
"These three changes to the standard camera line have enabled Accu-Sort to provide the highest performing camera with respect to read rate when its cameras were installed in direct competition with all major camera competitors at two independent customers test sites.".
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