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January 2007 - Vol 2, Issue 1
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For the latest in products for image processing and machine vision in North America, Digital Network Vision supplies a wide range of USB cameras, smart cameras, Gigabit Ethernet cameras, frame grabbers, and integrated machine vision software.

The growing availability of Gigabit Ethernet (in short GigE) interfaces in network components, desktop computers as well as laptops makes it only a question of time until the GigE interface becomes an accepted standard. The technology itself features significant advantages which will open up new possibilities for the image processing industry. For this purpose MATRIX VISION offers the new Gigabit Ethernet camera mvBlueCOUGAR.

The advantages of Ethernet network technology in the imaging market are: cost-efficient standard cables, long distances (up to 100 m) and easy network integration, the technology allows the mvBlueCOUGAR to benefit from the higher transfer rate of the Gigabit Ethernet technology. This transfer rate - namely up to one Gigabit/s - is also guaranteed on distances up to ten kilometers using optical transmission paths (fibre optic cables). The GigE camera mvBlueCOUGAR has a widespread range of sensors: CCD sensors with the resolutions 640 x 480 pixels (frame rate: 60 Hz), 1024 x 768 pixels (39 Hz) and 1600 x 1200 pixels (16 Hz) in each case as color and gray scale versions, CMOS sensors with the resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels (16 Hz) also as color and gray scale versions. Additionally, the camera offers two digital inputs and two digital outputs for trigger and flash. With 128 MB SDRAM the mvBlueCOUGAR has enough memory to reduce delays during the sending and reception of data packages effectively. A relevant advantage of the camera is intelligence. The mvBlueCOUGAR is based on a PowerPC CPU as well as Linux and thus a more flexible usage is possible as with processor free cameras. For example, image preprocessing can be made directly on the camera, image transfer (to reduce the transfer rate) can be controlled content related or the I/O signals can be programmed.
The mvBlueFOX USB camera includes an HRTC ( HRTC is the abbreviation of Hardware RealTime Controller and is based on the internal FGPA). With the HRTC an application developer is able to create acquire sequences or sequences to control the I/O. In many cases this functionality makes a PLC component needless.

The camera offers often needed image processing functions like horizontal and vertical mirroring, sharpening and Bayer color conversion, which, due to the special integration, minimize the PC load. Furthermore using different binning modes, the image acquisition can be accelerated or the sensitivity of the sensors increased. Drivers for Linux and Windows are available. Furthermore DirectShow, NeuroCheck, Halcon, LabView VI, and MATRIX VISION?s image processing library mvIMPACT are completely supported.
ISO9001 RoHs
With the adoption and the coming into effect of the EU directives 2002/95/EG (RoHS) and 2002/96/EG (WEEE), Europe-wide legislation has been set down concerning the use of hazardous substances in electrical and electronical equipment manufacture and recovery of used electrical and electronic equipment. MATRIX VISION welcomes these regulations in the interest of forward-looking, modern and ecological industrial production. The declaration of conformity and the RoHS- compliant product list can be downloaded as PDFs.

In addition, in November 2006 MATRIX VISION has been certified as ISO 9001 compliant.

If you have an application that you would like to share with a link to your web site, please contact me.

Sincerely,
John Morrissey
Digital Network Vision, LLC

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