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Like their standard PCI versions, the new frame grabbers offer features typically found only in much more expensive products, now in either a PC/104 core module or CompactPCI 3U size card answering the size constraints of compact but powerful EMV systems. The PXC200 is the first high quality color frame grabber with a PCI bus interface for under $400 -- over 33 percent less than the most nearly competitive product -- while the PX610 and PX510 offer real-time video capture performance with high gray-scale accuracy for the most demanding industrial and scientific applications. In addition, the PX610 is the only frame grabber designed specifically to support high resolution, non-interlaced video from progressive scan CCD cameras.
"These six new frame grabbers demonstrate Imagenation's commitment to machine vision systems in which a PC is embedded and tightly integrated with a frame grabber and camera, with special requirements for size, robustness and long-term support," said George Fabel, Imagenation's president. "Our products are fully compatible, making it easy and cost-effective to migrate from a desktop computer to an embedded machine vision system for high volume applications."
Imagenation's frame grabbers are compatible with standard PC components and support the latest machine vision application software packages. Demo programs for Windows and DOS allow the user to get the products up and running quickly, right out of the box. Comprehensive support is included for standard languages including C/C++ and Visual Basic. DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT are supported, with technical assistance, current software and examples available at Imagenation's website.
Imagenation's products are targeted at applications involving medical/ophthalmological instrumentation, traffic control devices, manufacturing automation equipment, and security and surveillance systems. Because of its compatibility with progressive scan cameras and asynchronous operation, the PX610 is particularly well suited to applications where the image of a moving object needs to be captured with high precision and in synchronization with an external event. Examples include gauging of parts moving down an assembly line, capturing the license plate number of moving automobiles, and using optical character recognition (OCR) to read the date code on pharmaceutical containers.
"Some of the most exciting opportunities for new embedded machine vision systems fall outside these well defined areas," Fabel added. "They include 'people counting' devices for shopping malls and retail stores, vision-based key cutting machines and automated scoring machines for bowling alleys, to name just a few."
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