Technical Tips

This Tech Tip is designed to explain some of the additions in the GigE Vision marketplace that have added to the capabilities of GigE Vision cameras.

The general development of LED technology has shown an exponential increase in brightness - giving a doubling of brightness every 36 months since the 1960s.

This tech tip explains some of the very useful features of modern machine vision cameras that you may not know about!

This Tech Tip is designed to re-​visit the camera interfaces and transmission standards available for vision systems. Since the last Tech tip on this subject, over four years ago, there have been a number of new developments.

Barcodes have become a familiar part of everyday life. Virtually every shop uses them to identify products at the checkout. This gives just a hint of the power of barcodes. Knowing the products that a customer buys allows automated re-stocking, market analysis and also instant price changes.

Cameras and framegrabbers often have digital inputs and outputs (‘DigIO’) built-​in to allow triggering and simple pass/fail outputs. This Tech Tip is intended to illustrate how to use these and also easy ways to extend the capability and number of DigIO.

This tech tip discusses the possible uses for telecentric lenses in machine vision environments.

A discussion on the different methods of transferring images to the PC for processing.

Devices known as “Acquisition Modules”, based on new digital interfaces like USB, FireWire and Gigabit Ethernet have recently begun to hit the image processing market. These compact, external modules behave like an external frame grabber, having an interface to one or more cameras at one end and an output to one of the ...

Gigabit-​Ethernet for Machine Vision or, in short, GigE Vision: According to many experts, the new interface standard and the closely associated generic software interface GenICam (Generic Interface for Cameras) will give new impetus to the industrial image processing sector in the near future: The image processing industry ...