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News Release from: JAI | Subject: BM-500CL and BB-500CL cameras
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 02 July 2008
Cameras provide consistent image quality
The BM-500CL and BB-500CL cameras offer good thermal management and preprocessing to guarantee optimal sensor operation, giving high-quality images every time.
JAI has added a 5Mpixel progressive scan camera to the Basic tier of its C3 camera suite, a complete camera range based on JAI's Core Camera Concept (C3) The high-resolution 5Mpixel camera, equipped with a Camera Link (CL) interface, is available in two versions: BM-500CL (monochrome) and BB-500CL (raw Bayer colour)
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 18 Mar 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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This versatile and flexible mid-range camera offers good thermal management and preprocessing to guarantee optimal sensor operation, giving high-quality images every time.
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The camera's analogue front end design enables it to operate at 15 frames a second with full 5Mpixel resolution, an improvement over the 12 frames a second rate found in some 5Mpixel cameras.
Partial scanning and binning modes are also provided for increased flexibility and performance.
In-camera pre-processing functions include automatic white balance to eliminate the need for performing this function in the host-based Bayer-to-RGB algorithm, LUT for dealing with difficult lighting conditions and a blemish compensation function which eliminates pixels with extremely low or high output characteristics by interpolating the neighboring pixels.
The BM-500CL/BB-500CL also features auto-iris lens control, making the camera suitable for outdoor applications with wideranging lighting conditions, such as intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and surveillance.
The Camera Link interface offers a choice of 12, 10 or 8bit outputs.
models with GigE Vision digital interfaces will be available in the near future.
The BM-500CL/BB-500CL has the same uniform design philosophy shared by all cameras in JAI's C3 camera range, making it easy for system integrators and OEMs installing diverse and complex machine vision solutions to adapt to varying camera demands by simply switching between models across the three tiers.
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The C3 Basic is a high-performance camera series with single or dual-tap imagers, inherent thermal management and a 55mm cube housing.
The C3 Advanced series has a broad range of built-in pre-processing functions, resolutions up to 16Mpixel and multitap, 2CCD and 3CCD architectures.
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