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News Release from: Edmund Optics | Subject: Machine-vision camera
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 April 2007
USB cameras simplify machine vision
Edmund Optics has announced its EO range of intelligent machine-vision cameras capable of edge enhancement, image mirroring and image binning vertically and horizontally.
Edmund Optics has announced its EO family of intelligent machine-vision cameras with the USB 2.0 interface The cameras are equipped with a host of software features designed to make machine vision easier to implement and control while the USB interface provides a high-speed link for data downloads
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 19 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The EO family cameras are available in four resolution and speed combinations ranging from 752x480-pixel at 87 fps to 2560x1920-pixel at 6 fps.
Lower resolution cameras are available in monochrome or colour versions while the higher resolution cameras are colour-only.
Each camera in the family features a progressive-scan CMOS sensor, software-based exposure control, C-mount lens fittings, and a USB 2.0 interface.
The cameras have the same 34x32x27.4-mm dimensions, allowing users to interchange cameras without system modifications.
The intelligent EO cameras come with software support that simplifies their use.
Under software control users can adjust the camera's frame rate by setting a specified Area of Interest (AOI) within the image.
Frame rate can also be adjusted using binning or sub-sampling.
Software also allows the user to control signal gain, set exposure time, and set frame rate as well as establish trigger and digital output (flash) delays and durations.
Users can set exposure, gain, and white balance manually or allow the camera to handle these parameters automatically.
The high-speed USB 2.0 interface coupled with the camera's intelligence permits the camera to provide data in a variety of modes.
Software supplied with the camera allows image capture in JPEG or Bitmap file formats or video capture in AVI format, both with hot-pixel correction.
The camera can also perform edge enhancement, image mirroring and image binning in both vertical and horizontal directions.
Drivers for the camera are available for Direct Show (WDM), ActiveX, and TWAIN applications programs.
In addition, a software development kit (SDK) and documentation are available.
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