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News Release from: Pacer International | Subject: HVDUO-10M
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 30 December 2003
Direct separation improves colour images
The HVDUO-10M is a one-piece digital colour camera capable of acquiring accurate, real-time, high-resolution colour images using the Foveon X3 Pro 10M CMOS direct image sensor.
The HVDUO-10M is a one-piece digital colour camera capable of acquiring accurate, real-time, high-resolution colour images using the Foveon X3 Pro 10M CMOS direct image sensor The HVDUO-10M features 30bit digital colour output, real-time colour processing, support for all sensor scan modes and a parallel LVDS interface
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 30 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The HVDUO-10M is well suited for industrial, scientific, cinema, medical and communications applications requiring high quality colour images.
The HVDUO-10M camera provides true colour performance through the use of the Foveon X3 Pro 10M CMOS direct image sensor, which incorporates the exclusive Foveon X3 direct colour separation technology.
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Unlike colour filter mosaic sensors, the Foveon X3 Pro 10M image sensor detects full colour at every pixel location.
In a typical mosaic sensor, each pixel is supplied with a filter that passes only one colour band.
One-half of the pixels detect green and only one-quarter detect red or blue.
This wastes light and creates gaps in the colour data, producing offsets among the colour detection positions and artefacts when the missing data are estimated.
In image sensors using the Foveon X3 technology, the three-layer structure provides every pixel location with three stacked photodetectors so that every pixel location detects full colour.
The result is that no light is lost in filters and the detection locations for all three colour channels are perfectly aligned.
The HVDUO3-10M camera takes full advantage of these powerful sensor features by incorporating real-time colour processing, full control of scan modes and three-channel, 12bit video digitisation.
Features of the HVDUO-10M camera include: 10.2 million photodetectors in a 2268 x 1512 x 3 matrix with a 9.12um square pitch; scan controls to set region of interest scans and variable pixel size; single-shot or continuous acquisition with selectable exposure and external triggering; full-frame still-shot or rolling shutter acquisition up to 4.5 frames per second; and a compact housing - only 93 x 93 x 80.3mm, including F-mount adapter.
HVDUO-10M cameras are supplied with the HanVision Camera Control Tool (HCCT), a Windows-based software package providing interactive user control of all camera functions.
All models are supplied with a parallel LVDS interface.
The camera operates from 5V DC power. Request a free brochure from Pacer International ...
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