New features on Basler cameras aim to improve imaging results and usability
Basler AG of Ahrensburg, Germany, says that it is signalling a clear strategy to strengthen its Scout and Pilot camera families by adding to these system new features and sensor front-ends.
"This year our customers can expect many new features on Basler Scout and Pilot cameras that will make them easier to use and increase value by moving processing tasks on board the camera," explained Henning Tiarks, Product Manager at Basler Components.
"We want to continue making integration easier and to improve image-processing results. Basler will continue along this path during 2008 by adding features such as auto-gain and auto-shutter to both camera families."
Among the first of the new features to be included is gamma correction, which modifies the brightness of the images by calculating a corrective value for each pixel in the image. This improves perception of the image by the human eye.
Binning is now available on the Scout and Pilot cameras. The main advantage of binning is that it increases the camera's response to light by summing the charges from adjacent pixels. For binning in the vertical direction, Basler makes use of the imaging sensor's native analogue charge transfer functionality. This has a direct effect on noise and on the amount of charge that can be collected from adjacent pixels. This approach essentially reduces noise.
A 'debouncer' feature, which discriminates between a valid and an invalid signal applied to the camera's digital inputs, has also been added. This specifies a minimum time that an input signal must remain high, or remain low, in order to be sensed as valid by the camera.
Basler also recently introduced four new Scout scA1400-30 camera models. Currently entering series production they will also include the new features.
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