"Raw colour" improves machine vision performance
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Sony Europe - Image Sensing Solutions product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Feb 26, 2004
Sony Europe's Image Sensing Solutions Division has made two additions to its range of progressive scan digital machine vision cameras, the XCD-SX910CR and XCD-X710CR.
Sony Europe's Image Sensing Solutions Division has made two additions to its range of progressive scan digital machine vision cameras, the XCD-SX910CR and XCD-X710CR.
Both models offer raw colour output for enhanced colour fidelity, allowing customers to apply their proprietary colour conversion routines.
With their superior frame rates and excellent resolution the cameras can improve throughput and increase productivity in high-speed machine vision applications such as sorting/inspection in the food, textile, printing and medical/pharmaceutical industries, and in quality critical production lines.
The XCD-SX910CR and XCD-X710CR are the first digital cameras from Sony to offer raw colour output.
The new CR (colour raw) cameras deliver the raw luminance of each R, G and B pixel, providing enhanced colour fidelity.
In some applications it is preferable that the colour output is from a known reference and that the colour processing takes place outside the camera at the computer level.
These units use a CCD with a Bayer RGB colour mask filter and output raw pixel values as Mono-8 (8bit/pixel) in 8bit mode or Mono-16 (16bit/pixel) in 10bit mode.
The colour conversion in the computer is supported by Sony's IEEE1394 driver and most 3rd party IEEE1394 (Firewire) compatible software.
The XCD-SX910CR is based on a half-inch type IT (interline transfer) progressive scan 1,450,000 pixel CCD for SXGA resolution (1280 x 960) at up to 15 frames per second.
The XCD-X710CR is a third-inch type IT progressive scan 800,000 pixel CCD camera offering XGA resolution.
Both models feature plug-and-play IEEE1394 interfaces with a new firmware implementation that provides compliance to version 1.3 of the standard.
The XCD-X710CR has been optimised to use the IEEE1394 bus at its best to provide the fastest colour camera possible on a 400Mbit/s bus - 30frame/s at up to 1024 x 768 resolution in 8bit mode.
An assortment of convenient features such as partial scan (256 zones at 16 x 16) to get increased frame rates and selectable output modes (frame rate/bit depth) make these cameras extremely flexible.
The XCD-SX910 and XCD-X710 operate from an 8-30V DC supply with a power consumption of 3W.
The cameras are housed in compact, rugged steel cases measuring 44 x 33 x 116mm and each weighs 250g.
The cameras will be available from March 2004.
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