Posted to News on 19th Oct 2012, 15:32
Icon camera for embedded machine vision applications
Stemmer Imaging can now offer vision system developers and OEMs a new level of power and flexibility to develop their own embedded imaging applications. Teledyne DALSA's new series of Icon user-programmable cameras combines Teledyne DALSA's expertise in sensors, cameras and image processing with off-the-shelf development tools and libraries. This creates an embedded vision system platform that offers developers extensive control of the hardware and image data.
The new Icon series uses high-quality colour and monochrome sensors with high sensitivity and supports resolutions up to 1600 × 1200 pixels. An open platform for developing imaging applications is provided using either the embedded Sapera Vision Software Development Kit (SDK) or third party software. The Sapera Embedded Vision SDK provides a suite of integrated image capture and processing libraries and contains a set of optimised image processing functions such as tools for reading bar codes, OCR recognition, blob analysis right up to contour and geometry search and calibration functions. Experienced users can also create applications using Microsoft Visual Studio on Microsoft Windows CE embedded applications for the Icon series camera.
In order to efficiently process images and to analyse data swiftly, the Icon series uses a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 and C64× + DSP processor running Microsoft Windows CE advanced real-time operating system. These features, combined with their low power consumption and compact design, make the Icon series a useful processing platform for integrated image processing.
For further information about "Icon' user-programmable cameras go to www.stemmer-imaging.co.uk.
