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GigE Interface Imperx-Cameras
High Speed Camera Recorder
Extraordinary pictures despite extreme light conditions
Frame Grabber for Color Cameras offers Real Time Bayer Decoding
New High Speed CCD Camera
Family of High Resolution Digital Cameras
World's First Digital Frame Grabber in PC-Card Format
GigE Interface Imperx-Cameras
 Imperx has implemented GigE as an optional output for it's entire series of cameras. The Lynx GigE cameras will all include the same programmability, firmware library, strobe and trigger control as the camera link series. It will even support the optional Auto-Iris functionality.
The GigE cameras will have support for all the major software packages including:
• Labview
• Image Pro
• Halcon
• Video Savant
• MIL
• eVision
• Common Vision
• Sapera and more
It also includes a standard software package, VB and C++ SDK libraries. The cameras are supported on both Red Hat and Windows 2000/XP.
New at COSYCO: High Speed Camera Recorder (August 2005)
 MemView is the newest highlight in COSYCO's portfolio. The HighSpeed Camera can record up to 12 seconds of uncompressed video in its embedded memory. The camera achieves 500 fps at full resolution of 1.280 x 1024 Pixels (monochrome or color).
If the application allows lower resolution the frame rate goes up. The maximum frame rate for instance is achieved if the camera is configured in a pseudo line scan mode where recording a line of 1.280 pixel will result into a frame rate of 500.000 Frames/s.
The overall control of the camera is supported through an USB 2 interface connected to a Laptop or standard PC. There camera is delivered with a comprehensive software package including full setup of frame rate, exposure, window size, trigger, recording, playback and many more features.
Once the camera parameter have been loaded into the camera the user is allowed to disconnect the computer and start record through an external trigger. A very convenient feature is the ability of the camera to self trigger based on a predefined condition in the recorded image itself. The user can for instance choose an area in the whole scene where he would expect a change of the content or reach a certain threshold and the camera starts recording as soon as the condition occurs.
The camera comes as a complete ready to go recording and playback package including 1 - 8 GigaBytes of internal memory, software, power supply and USB cable. The customer only needs a Laptop or standard PC with Windows XP.
Extraordinary pictures despite extreme light conditions (August 2005)
Computer Vision very often is facing unsolved problems in applications where extreme light conditions occur. Scenes with high dynamic range are common in some industrial applications such as welding inspection, inspection of high reflective material (CD ROMs and other shiny material) or environmental applications like traffic control (at daylight, night, in tunnels with headlights on) and so on. In most of these demanding applications the CMOS camera from Kamera Werk Dresden will provide a solution.
Quality Control in welding applications is a very good example to show the benefit of the LOGLUX camera. The arc represents the only source of light. The pictures were taken with the following exposure times:
• 4ms for dark areas
• 250 µs for medium areas
• 10 µs for the brightest picture portions
The example pictures of a 100 W light bulb shows results achieved with different exposure conditions. The use of a linear characteristics (common to most cameras) already shows brilliant sharp picture with no blooming effects. Adding a second integration level (e.g. 3000 µs) results in a tremendous improvement of image quality within the low light areas without disturbing the bright shiny filiament. A third integration step can improve medium portions again better. The improvement is seen best in the area of the supporting wires.
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