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News Release from: Sony Europe - Image Sensing Solutions | Subject: Sony Vision Network
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 November 2005
Partnership to simplify vision systems
build
Vision hardware developments like the introduction of smart cameras bring benefits including increased intelligence at the point of image acquisition and potential cost savings.
Sony Europe's Image Sensing Solutions Division has announced the Sony Vision Network, a partnership programme intended to deliver proven combinations of Sony hardware and third-party software backed with expert consultancy, advice and supply chain support The Network will help achieve fast and simple application- and system-building by identifying assured sources of hardware and software compatible with Sony's products, and providing expertise, experience and advice on integration and sector-specific issues
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 13 Nov 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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At the Vision Show in Stuttgart, (8-10 November 2005), the first members of the Vision Network will be announced.
Initial participants include Euresys; FDS; I2S; Jencam; MaxxVision; MVTech; NeoVision; Tordivel; and Unibrain.
"We are committed to rapidly expanding the Sony Vision Network," said Arnaud Destruels, Product Marketing Manager at Sony ISS.
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"Systems integrators, distributors and dealers will play a key role in this collaboration, since they are often in the best position of all to identify customers' exact requirements.
We will be taking active steps to increase the number of such companies involved." Initial members of the Sony Vision Network bring systems expertise, GUI-based development tools, software libraries and hardware such as lighting systems and lenses - in fact all of the elements needed to build a complete machine vision system.
By setting up such a Network, Sony aims not just to provide customers with the assurance of hardware and software combinations that will work together, but also to make it easier to access the expertise required to complete a project.
This includes not only machine vision and image processing advice, but also experience in the use of such technologies in specific industries.
New hardware developments like the introduction of smart cameras bring benefits including increased intelligence at the point of image acquisition; potential cost savings; and increased simplicity through a reduction in the number of system components.
As such they enable end-users, OEMs and integrators alike to quickly configure image processing solutions using a consistent hardware platform.
"However," says Destruels, "as with a desktop PC, the hardware is nothing without hardware peripherals, software to run on it, and support to ensure a successful overall implementation." * About Sony - Sony manufactures audio, video, communications and information technology products for the global consumer and professional markets.
With its music, pictures, game and online businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be one of the World's Leading Consumer Brands.
Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of EUR 53.43 billion (yen 7,160 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005 and it employs approximately 151,400 people worldwide.
In Europe, Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of EUR 12.03 billion (yen 1,613 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005, based on an average market exchange rate for the same period of yen 134 to the EUR.
Sony Europe, headquartered at the Sony Center am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, is responsible for the company's European electronics business and registered consolidated sales of EUR 8.87 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005.
* About Sony Image Sensing Solutions division - Sony Europe's Image Sensing Solutions division has an in-depth range of component cameras and image sensing products.
Industry leading products include colour and monochrome CCD video cameras for analogue and digital (IEEE 1394 and CameraLink) vision systems, which satisfy numerous market sectors and applications, including manufacturing (industrial vision solutions), security/monitoring, webcasting, videoconferencing, scientific and medical markets.
This division is based in the UK and France and continues to be supported by over 25 years of technologically-advanced design and development, delivered today in world-class products.
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