LMI improves HexSight software and introduces FireSync platform to the North American market
LMI Technologies (LMI) Inc of Delta, British Columbia, Canada, has improved its HexSight software. The research, development and manufacturing organisation, which specialises in machine-vision applied technologies, has also recently introduced its FireSync platform to the North American market.
LMI says that it has improved its HexSight pattern-matching software by integrating colour imaging capabilities and GigE Vision camera support into the latest version.
This PC-based technology provides a comprehensive machinery library that uses a well established set of tools. These include vectorised descriptions of grey-scale and colour images to locate key features regardless of size, rotation, non-linear lighting, occlusions, clutter and contrast reversal. In addition, the software provides image-processing routines and metrology tools for sub-pixel edge extraction and dimensional measurement, and it is capable of region sampling and colour segmentation.
Its optical character recognition (OCR) and symbology tools support standard SEMI fonts and decoding for most one-dimensional and two-dimensional bar codes. A process manager that easily strings together multiple tools into an execution sequence helps users to customise their applications.
In other news, LMI used the Vision Show, which was held in Boston, USA, on June 10-12th, 2008, to introduce its FireSync platform to the North American market.
Len Metcalfe, Chief Executive Officer of LMI, believes that the industry has been searching for a sensor technology that tightly integrates hardware and software requirements in a small footprint suitable for use in embedded applications. As a research and development organisation specialising in vision technology, LMI says that it has met this challenge, investing resources to design a sensor platform to meet vision engineering needs.
At the event Metcalfe said: "Our goal is to reveal the FireSync platform to the North American market to demonstrate how this modular design is easy for engineers to integrate. Ultimately, I would like to see all vision engineers discover for themselves the benefits of building vision sensors using FireSync components."
The FireSync platform provides hardware and software components that can be easily configured by an engineer. Depending on an engineer's application needs, it offers scalable networking for connecting many sensors, simple cabling, multi-core processing for high-speed data transfer and performance, as well as microsecond synchronisation. In addition to the core benefits, this platform is capable of managing system-level complexities, such as video streaming, time stamping and data transmission.
To support the introduction of the FireSync architecture, LMI has created the FireSync Developers' Toolkit. A standard and advanced version of the kit is available. The first is the entry-level kit used for VGA-type, multi-camera applications. It contains a monochrome camera, a colour camera, a sensor controller, a laser, a light emitting diodes (LED) line-bar, and a standalone bench. The advanced kit is specifically designed for web-scanning applications and provides additional components, such as a megapixel colour camera, a quad video sensor controller, and both white and red LED line-bars. Both tool-kits are designed to encourage vision engineers to discover the potential of the FireSync platform, says the company.
Contacts:
Susan Hancock
LMI Technologies Inc
1673 Cliveden Avenue
Delta, British Columbia
Canada V3M 6V5
Phone: +1-604-636-1019
Fax: +1-604-516-8368
Email: shancock@LMItechnologies.com
Web: http://www.lmitechnologies.com
LMI says that it has improved its HexSight pattern-matching software by integrating colour imaging capabilities and GigE Vision camera support into the latest version.
This PC-based technology provides a comprehensive machinery library that uses a well established set of tools. These include vectorised descriptions of grey-scale and colour images to locate key features regardless of size, rotation, non-linear lighting, occlusions, clutter and contrast reversal. In addition, the software provides image-processing routines and metrology tools for sub-pixel edge extraction and dimensional measurement, and it is capable of region sampling and colour segmentation.
Its optical character recognition (OCR) and symbology tools support standard SEMI fonts and decoding for most one-dimensional and two-dimensional bar codes. A process manager that easily strings together multiple tools into an execution sequence helps users to customise their applications.
In other news, LMI used the Vision Show, which was held in Boston, USA, on June 10-12th, 2008, to introduce its FireSync platform to the North American market.
Len Metcalfe, Chief Executive Officer of LMI, believes that the industry has been searching for a sensor technology that tightly integrates hardware and software requirements in a small footprint suitable for use in embedded applications. As a research and development organisation specialising in vision technology, LMI says that it has met this challenge, investing resources to design a sensor platform to meet vision engineering needs.
At the event Metcalfe said: "Our goal is to reveal the FireSync platform to the North American market to demonstrate how this modular design is easy for engineers to integrate. Ultimately, I would like to see all vision engineers discover for themselves the benefits of building vision sensors using FireSync components."
The FireSync platform provides hardware and software components that can be easily configured by an engineer. Depending on an engineer's application needs, it offers scalable networking for connecting many sensors, simple cabling, multi-core processing for high-speed data transfer and performance, as well as microsecond synchronisation. In addition to the core benefits, this platform is capable of managing system-level complexities, such as video streaming, time stamping and data transmission.
To support the introduction of the FireSync architecture, LMI has created the FireSync Developers' Toolkit. A standard and advanced version of the kit is available. The first is the entry-level kit used for VGA-type, multi-camera applications. It contains a monochrome camera, a colour camera, a sensor controller, a laser, a light emitting diodes (LED) line-bar, and a standalone bench. The advanced kit is specifically designed for web-scanning applications and provides additional components, such as a megapixel colour camera, a quad video sensor controller, and both white and red LED line-bars. Both tool-kits are designed to encourage vision engineers to discover the potential of the FireSync platform, says the company.
Contacts:
Susan Hancock
LMI Technologies Inc
1673 Cliveden Avenue
Delta, British Columbia
Canada V3M 6V5
Phone: +1-604-636-1019
Fax: +1-604-516-8368
Email: shancock@LMItechnologies.com
Web: http://www.lmitechnologies.com
