OmniVision Technologies has launched Nyxel 2, the second generation of its near-infrared technology for image sensors that operate in low to no ambient light conditions
OmniVision Technologies has announced in advance of CES the expansion of its backside-illuminated, global shutter sensor family with new VGA imagers featuring 2.2-micron pixels
The Moon landing was 50 years old in 2019. Zeiss lenses were used to capture this image
The last year has been one of consolidation for the machine vision industry, along with a slowdown in the markets that machine vision serves
OmniVision Technologies has announced the first two members of its new automotive image sensor platform: the 8 megapixel, front-view OX08A and OX08B
OmniVision Technologies has announced the OC0SA, the latest member of its family of Camera Cube Chip wafer-level camera modules for medical applications
OmniVision Technologies has released the OV7251-2B global shutter image sensor, which provides a shutter efficiency of 99.96 per cent for machine vision applications
The OV6948 sensor, measuring 0.575 x 0.575mm, is designed for medical imagers, including reusable medical imaging equipment
OmniVision Technologies announced from the AutoSens conference its 1.3 megapixel OX01F10 SoC, providing automotive designers with excellent imaging performance across a wide range of challenging lighting conditions
OmniVision Technologies will be showing an automotive camera module at the AutoSens conference in Brussels from 17 to 19 September, built using OmniVision’s OX03A1Y image sensor with an Arm Mali-C71 image signal processor
Teledyne e2v’s Flash sensor
Teledyne e2v has launched its Flash CMOS sensor family for 3D laser profiling, while Omnivision Technologies introduced a global shutter sensor with 2.2µm pixels
MVTec’s Halcon software library includes a deep learning OCR tool with pre-trained fonts from a wide range of industries. Credit: MVTec
Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
Engineers at KYB in front of a pick-and-place solution for handling steel metal cylinders. Credit: Pickit
Car manufacturing has been hit hard by Covid-19, but the need for automation on production lines has not diminished, as Greg Blackman finds out
A point cloud of a National Research Council Canada artefact superimposed on a CAD model. Credit: NIST
How do you choose a 3D vision system for a robot cell? Geraldine Cheok and Kamel Saidi at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA discuss an initiative to define standards for industrial 3D imaging
SWIR imaging can show bruising in fruit that wouldn't be evident with a visible camera. Credit: Sony
Edmund Optics’s Thomas Armspach-Young and Boris Lange consider the optics needed to get the best out of Sony's new short-wave infrared image sensors
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Findings from a two-part survey, conducted by the European Machine Vision Association, on the effects the Covid-19 pandemic could have on the machine vision industry
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Christoph Hellmann Santos, of the ROS Industrial Consortium Europe and Fraunhofer IPA, explains why more industrial users are now building robots through the open source software platform, Robot Operating System
