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Sony Europe - Image Sensing Solutions product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Apr 14, 2005
The latest addition to Sony Europe's Image Sensing Solutions division lineup of analogue, progressive scan, machine vision cameras is a highly miniaturised remote head camera unit.
The latest addition to Sony Europe's Image Sensing Solutions division lineup of analogue, progressive scan, machine vision cameras is a highly miniaturised remote head camera unit.
The new XC-56BB is based on a third-inch VGA progressive scan CCD and features a remote head that allows images to be captured at 30frame/s, and with a distance of up to 2m between the camera head and the control unit.
The XC-56BB is a fully compatible, enhanced successor to the XC-55BB, and is aimed at manufacturers and value added resellers working on accurate robotic machine vision applications and/or in space-restricted areas.
The third-inch monochrome type progressive scanning Sony CCD with square pixels provides a horizontal resolution of 500 TV lines and an excellent picture quality.
The extra-small NF-mount square remote head has a precisely installed CCD to ensure accurate alignment and the miniature size allows access to very contained spaces.
The Sony XC-56BB camera works at 30frame/s and is ideal for machine vision applications with fast moving objects.
The speed of 30frame/s guarantees easy integration with a low-cost frame grabber to produce a competitively priced, complete solution.
The camera has good sensitivity of 400 lux at an aperture F8 and a fixed gain (0dB), allowing it to work at the slowest of shutter speeds.
It provides an external trigger shutter and both internal and external synchronisation.
The XC-56BB remote head measures just 22 x 22 x 30mm and weighs only 40g, allowing the camera to be installed in machine vision systems where space and weight of the camera are key factors.
It is Sony's smallest machine vision camera and is vibration and shock tolerant.
A good example where this camera may be used would included applications where there are significant space or weight constraints, such as semiconductor robotic monitoring for a pick and place machine.
Other typical applications include assembly line inspection, measurement, stereo or 3D imaging, barcode-reading and character-recognition, industrial endoscopy (ie nondestructive testing).
The XC-56BB is fully compatible with its predecessor, the XC-55BB.
The new camera will be available during April 2005.
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