Friday, November 30, 2012

Now Presenting Unifocesales' Camera Selection Tutorial _2 minute Intro Clip

Before you buy a camera, look at Uniforce Sales' Camera Selection Tutorial. It will introduce you to the various concepts of image acquisition, image processing, and video recording. It will discuss the components required for building a clean vision system. The agenda will include: Classification of Industrial Cameras, Camera Selection Guidelines, and Camera Resolution Calculation.
Click the link to see the 2 minute Introduction clip.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK_zOfhoMvE  The Full 1 hour version is available at Uniforcesales.com.   

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Uniforce Sales and Engineering has announced a new line of ISD advanced progressive scan, fully programmable area line cameras



Uniforce Sales and Engineering has announced a new line of ISD advanced progressive scan, fully programmable area line cameras.  The Imperx ISD-B1320, Imperx ISD-B-1920, and Imperx ISD-B1921 have powerful features that not only offer flexibility but is designed for industrial, military, mechanical, and broadcasting applications that require a wide dynamic range and excellent quality images.
According to Imperx, “all three cameras can meet the high expectations required for the medical, scientific, and military applications. These cameras which are thermally optimized, mechanical and electrical design provide an extended operating temperature range (-40*C to +85*C), and high MTBF of 660,000 hours @ 40*C.”
The Imperx ISD-B1320 has a sensor of ½” optical format providing an image resolution of 1280x720 @ 60 frames per second. It has 6 independent horizontal and vertical AOIs.

The Imperx ISD-B1920 has a sensor of 1” optical format with an image resolution of 1920/1080 @ 30 frames per second. It has 8 Independent horizon and vertical AOIs.

The Imperx ISD-B1921 offers a 2/3 format and administer an image resolution of 1920/1080 @ 30 frames per second. It has 6 independent horizontal and vertical AOIs.

Both the ISD-B1320 and ISD-B1921 are available with CoaXPress, Camera Link®, or GigE Vision® interfaces.

Additional Camera Features:

  • ·         Mono, color
  • ·         HD-SDI
  • ·         RS232 and RS485 serial communication
  • ·         Analog and digital gain and offset control
  • ·         Programmable frame time and speed
  • ·         Programmable external trigger (optional)
  • ·         Internal/External exposure control
  • ·         Automatic gain, exposure and iris control
  • ·         Automatic white balance
  • ·         Internal/External H and V sync input/output
  • ·         Left/right digital bit shift
  • ·         Test image with image superimposition
  • ·         Built in pulse generator
  • ·         Programmable I/O mapping
  • ·         Dynamic transfer function correction
  • ·         Dynamic black level correction
  • ·         Defective and hot pixel correction (static/dynamic)
  • ·         Temperature monitor
  • ·         Field upgradeable firmware
  • ·         Customer defined Look Up Table (LUT)
  • ·         Reverse image (H mirror)
  • ·         MTBF of 660,000 hours @ 40°C


About Uniforce Sales and Engineering
Uniforce Sales and Engineering specializes in image acquisition, processing and digital video recording for industrial, medical, scientific, multimedia, and military applications. Machine vision and image acquisition products and services include cameras, frame grabbers, image processing software, lenses, lighting, digital video recorders, and integrated systems. We have immense technical knowledge with extensive capabilities of designing and developing standard or custom vision systems.  Call Uniforce Sales today for more information at 510 657-4000. www.uniforcesales.com