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The highly anticipated Vision 2008 trade show arrived at Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany this week beginning on Tuesday, November 4 and running through November 6, 2008. Approximately 300 exhibitors from almost 30 nations are scheduled to present at the show to over 6,000 visitors from around the world looking for information on innovations in the machine vision industry. Vision 2008 is...

CIS Corporation, a leader in surveillance and machine vision cameras, and Human Monitoring (HM), a provider of advanced video and image processing, have jointly developed a stabilized video camera suitable for traffic control, surveillance and remote monitoring applications. The V90S is a commercial grade, network security camera that uses the Texas Instruments DaVinci(TM) Technology platform, with processors that are optimized...

Although not confirmed in any way, shape or form by Sony, there are rumors circling that Sony Europe will be debuting a new Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) industrial camera prototype at the Vision Expo 2008 which kicks off this week in Stuttgart, Germany. The Vision Expo is an international trade fair for machine vision and identification technologies. It is an innovation...

Founded in 1978, CIS Corporation has a long standing reputation in Japan, Europe and Asia for its high-quality industrial camera systems, board cameras and image transmission products for machine vision and security applications.  While historically focused in the Japanese market, CIS has been a key contributor to the manufacture of private-label cameras and technology for many global top-tier camera suppliers...

A couple months ago I posted on "Houses of Worship and the popularity of the Sony EVI-HD1 Robotic PTZ Camera".  Here is a great example of the increasing trend of churches looking into broadcasting for either their special holiday services or their regular weekly services. ******** LISBON (AFP) — A church in northern Portugal is to broadcast services live on...

There are two common methods for "painting" a video image on an electronic display screen by scanning or displaying each line or row of pixels, the first is Interlace Scan and the second is Progressive Scan. Progressive scan video cameras are used in a variety of applications in industrial vision, such as machine vision, robotics and military. A progressive scan...

Aegis Electronic Group, the proud recipient of National University's 2007 Peak Performance Award,  is sponsoring the 2008 Peak Performance Award in conjunction with National University's School of Business and Management, The San Diego Daily Transcript and Cox Communications. Aegis CEO Carolynn Larson-Garcia has joined the panel of industry expert judges for this years Peak Performance Award. Last year, National University's...

Today, Sony officially announced the impending release of their new addition to the already popular FCB block camera series, the FCB-EX20D/FCB-EX20DP color block camera, a new version of their popular FCB-EX11D/P.  These new cameras have a new 1/3-type Super HAD™ CCD II sensor that provides increased sensitivity compared to previous block cameras featuring the successful 1/4-type Super HAD CCD. With...

In my quest to write an article on the integration of Gigabit Ethernet technology in the Machine Vision industry, I ran across a similar article from Test & Measurement World that I will share instead... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The GigE Vision interface standard brings several benefits to machine-vision inspection of PCBs (printed-circuit boards), semiconductors, and wafers. A flurry of product introductions this...

As of September 30, 2008, Toshiba Teli America, Inc., the North American subsidiary of Toshiba Teli Corporation, has a new Vice President of Sales for the Eastern Territory, Joseph Cook. With more than a decade of experience in executive leadership and sales roles, Mr. Cook is ideally suited to contribute to the company's overall growth in the machine vision market...