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News Release from: Point Grey Research | Subject: Flea
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 07 November 2003
Camera aims to "infest" computer vision
industry
The Flea is Point Grey Research's smallest camera designed to fit areas as small as 30 x 31mm.
The Flea is Point Grey Research's smallest camera designed to fit areas as small as 30 x 31mm Featuring a 0.33in Sony CCD sensor available with either 640 x 480 resolution at 60 frames per second or 1024 x 768 resolution at 30 frames per second, the camera is guaranteed to deliver excellent image quality at a high frame rate
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 7 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Aside from its tiny form factor and speed, the Flea also features 12bit analogue to digital conversion and a built-in serial port for control of the camera's local devices.
"It's a one-of-a-kind camera with just the right combination of elements: size, fast frame rate, high quality imaging and price.
The Flea will be attractive to a number of imaging applications such as high-speed assembly inspection and robot control tasks", says PGR's Vlad Tucakov.
"Just as fleas are known to jump 150 times their height, we expect sales of this camera to jump equally high".
Similar to other PGR cameras, the Flea will also support networking of multiple cameras, automatic inter-camera synchronisation, general purpose I/O pins, extended shutter times and in-field firmware upgrading.
The Flea's full development kit includes the CS mounted camera, IEEE1394 interface card and cable, tripod mounting adapter, PGRFlycapture C/C++ API, device driver, user manuals and one-year technical support.
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