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A Funeral Parade for the Frame Grabber?

13.08.2009 - GigE, FireWire, USB .... you can't help but hearing obituaries for the frame grabber from all directions. Has the concept of frame grabber outlived its usefulness? Is this...

Machine Vision in the UK

12.08.2009 - The UK Industrial Vision Association (UKIVA) was established in 1992 as a not-for profit trade organization whose prime objective was to promote the use of imaging in industry...

FireWire and GigE Racing for the Pole Position

06.08.2009 - The GigE Vision standard is rapidly gaining market share over other machine vision camera interfaces. Does that mean that FireWire, the currently leading digital interface, is...

Technology Trend Survey for Industrial Vision Cameras

06.08.2009 - Machine Vision market surveys mostly address economic aspects and naturally try to cover all facets and technologies of the field. Single technical aspects can very rarely be...

Performance of Inspection Systems

06.08.2009 - The performance of automated inspection systems on the factory floor is a frequent source of controversy between equipment supplier and user - often caused by different...

Optical Metrology Basics: Spectral Sensors

05.08.2009 - A spectral sensor is a miniaturized spectrometer equipped with a detector array. The spectrometer spreads the incoming bunch of rays according to wavelengths, and the detector...

Everything Is in Motion

05.08.2009 - At the Vision show end of 2007, INSPECT hosted a panel discussion on the topic "All you ever wanted to know about Machine Vision software". One of the panelists, Cognex co-founder...

Image Processing Basics: The Background

06.07.2009 - Image processing in industrial applications often is much simplified when the lighting device provides an image with a homogeneous background. Such a situation allows for robust...

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