Lachen, Schwyz - Photonfocus AG is pleased to announce its new MV1-D1312C-160-CL-12 colour camera. This 1.4Mpix camera is based on Photonfocus’ newly developed 3rd Generation CMOS imager A1312C (RGB Bayer). A global shutter and a high frame rate of 108fps at full resolution (1312x1082) make this the optimal camera for high speed colour applications, whereas horizontal and/or vertical windowing allow a further increase of this frame rate.
The new A1312C colour CMOS image sensor features a spectral range covering 390nm to 670nm with a cover glass acting as sharp NIR cut-off filter around 670nm. On request Photonfocus is able to deliver the A1312C image sensor or colour cameras with different cover glass characteristics.
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Lachen, Schwyz - Photonfocus AG is pleased to announce its new monochrome MV1-D1312-240-CL-8 camera, which to the best of our knowledge is the world’s fastest CameraLink® Base camera. Based on Photonfocus’ 3rd generation CMOS image sensor A1312, the new camera offers an excellent NIR sensitivity.
Operating at the upper frame rate limit achievable over a CameraLink® Base interface, the new MV1-D1312-240-CL-8 camera reaches 217 fps at 1024x1024 pixel resolution, breaking through the 200 fps barrier at Megapixel resolution.
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Lachen, Schwyz - Photonfocus AG is pleased to announce the launch of three new smart cameras in its SM2-D1312 series.
The new cameras feature a powerful 1GHz DSP from Texas Instrument combined with the excellent spectral sensitivity of Photonfocus’ 3rd generation A1312 CMOS image sensor.
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Lachen, Schwyz - with the new EL1-D1312-160-CL camera, Photonfocus AG introduces a new uncooled CMOS camera for the inspection of solar cells based on electroluminescence.
The new 1.4Mpix camera is based on the newly developed 3rd Generation CMOS imager A1312 from Photonfocus. The A1312 image sensor from Photonfocus was optimized for applications in the visible as well as the NIR (Near Infra Red up to 1100nm).
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Lachen, Schwyz - Photonfocus AG announced today that Marcel J. Krist has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors, effective September 1, 2009.
In addition Photonfocus AG is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Milko Kostadinov as Sales and Marketing Manager. Mr. Kostadinov is responsible for maintaining and building Photonfocus’ global network of distributors and for implementing the company’s growth strategy together with the sales and marketing team.
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With the new monochrome MV1-D1312-40-GB and MV1-D1312I-40-GB cameras, with Gigabit Ethernet interface, Photonfocus is introducing two new CMOS cameras, based on the newly developed 3rd Generation CMOS imagers A1312 and A1312I from Photonfocus. The new CMOS imager A1312I was specially developed for NIR (Near Infra Red) applications up to 1100nm. The MV1-D1312(I) cameras provide a high dynamic range of up to 120dB with the well known LinLog® technology patented by Photonfocus. The new MV1-D1312(I)-40-GB cameras deliver 27fps @ full resolution of 1312 by 1082 pixel. A major benefit of the new camera is the possibility to further increase the speed to thousands of frames per second by reducing the ROI – Region of Interest – through horizontal and vertical windowing. The spectral range of the new A1312I CMOS sensor has an extended spectral range covering 350nm to 1100nm. Besides the overall excellent image quality it’s worth pointing out the remarkably high Near Infra Red (NIR) responsivity (Quantum Efficiency ca. 30% at 1000nm). A fast global shutter enables sharp and smear free images even at high frame rates. The new camera is equipped with all standard features needed for common applications whilst offering an outstanding image quality.
With the new monochrome MV1-D1312I-40 and MV1-D1312I-160 cameras, with CameraLink® interface, Photonfocus introduces a new series, based on the newly developed 3rd Generation CMOS imager A1312I from Photonfocus. The new CMOS imager A1312I was specially developed for NIR (Near Infra Red) applications up to 1100nm. The MV1-D1312I cameras provide a high dynamic range of up to 120dB with the well known LinLog® technology patented by Photonfocus. The new MV1-D1312I-160 camera delivers 110fps @ full resolution of 1312 by 1082 pixel. A major benefit of the new camera is the possibility to further increase the speed to thousands of frames per second by reducing the ROI – Region of Interest – through horizontal and vertical windowing. The spectral range of the new A1312I CMOS sensor has an extended spectral range covering 350nm to 1100nm. Besides the overall excellent image quality it’s worth pointing out the remarkably high Near Infra Red (NIR) responsivity (Quantum Efficiency ca. 30% at 1000nm). A fast global shutter enables sharp and smear free images even at high frame rates. The new camera is equipped with all standard features needed for common applications whilst offering an outstanding image quality.
You need long distance data transfer for your vision application? Our Digipeater will be your solution for CameraLink® base interface! We have extensive experience with the data transfer for applications using CameraLink® interface. The Digipeater CameraLink® repeater from Photonfocus is aimed to all Machine Vision users requiring cable lenght over 10 m. The Digipeater offer: Plug and play, 100% CameraLink® compatible, Extension up to 40 m with daisy-chaining of multiple repeaters, Compact and robust industrial housing, Automatic stand-by mode and power-up failsafe, No cable insertion losses. The main features of the Digipeater compared to other Repeaters are: Clock de-jitter unit to reduce the clock jitter and avoid a jitter accumulation, Clock control unit with watch dog for automatic stand-by and plug&play, Fail safe transmission of camera control data. For more information please contact us at: sales@photonfocus.com.
The new Pixel Professor™ camera MV-D1024E-PP01-40-CL from Photonfocus is aimed at all customers who need real time image pre-processing on the camera. With in-built image pre-processing hardware (FPGA) in the camera reliance on specialised frame grabbers or other hardware accelerators is removed. Another major advantage of performing image pre-processing on the camera results in a dramatic reduction of the vision system computer CPU load. As a consequence the vision system can run faster or use more sophisticated algorithms in the same time period producing better results.
The new Pixel Professor™ camera is aimed at all Machine Vision users, even the ones not having any knowledge about how to program FPGAs. For this Photonfocus offers their clients the Pixel Professor™ Lab, a graphical user interface (GUI) that allows any user to set up his image pre-processing operators with just a few mouse clicks on the computer. Customers wanting to implement their own image pre-processing algorithms on the camera’s FPGA should contact Photonfocus in order to further discuss this possibility.
With the new monochrome MV1-D1312-160 camera, with CameraLink® interface, Photonfocus introduces its second camera of a new series, based on the newly developed 3rd Generation CMOS imager A1312-160 from Photonfocus. The MV1-D1312-160 provides a high dynamic range of up to 120dB with the well known LinLog® technology patented by Photonfocus. The new MV1-D1312-160 camera delivers 110fps @ full resolution of 1312 by 1082 pixel. A major benefit of the new camera is the possibility to further increase the speed to thousands of frames per second by reducing the ROI – Region of Interest – through horizontal and vertical windowing. The spectral range of the new CMOS camera has an extended spectral range covering 350nm to 1000nm. Besides the overall excellent image quality it’s worth pointing out the remarkably high Near Infra Red (NIR) responsivity. A fast global shutter enables sharp and smear free images even at high frame rates. The new camera is equipped with all standard features needed for common applications whilst offering an outstanding image quality.
With the new monochrome DS1-D1312-160 camera, with CameraLink® interface, Photonfocus introduces its first camera of a new series, based on the newly developed 3rd Generation CMOS imager A1312-160 from Photonfocus. The new camera is equipped with all standard features needed for common applications whilst offering an outstanding image quality. The new DS1-D1312-160 camera delivers 110fps @ full resolution. A major benefit of the new camera is the possibility to further increase the speed to thousands of frames per second by reducing the ROI – Region of Interest – through horizontal and vertical windowing. Customers requiring sharp and smear free images even with high frame rates will be pleased with the fast global shutter of the new DS1-D1312-160 camera developed by Photonfocus. The new DS1-D1312-160 CMOS camera is able to start capturing a new image whilst outputting the current image, thus maximising the available exposure time and/or frame rate. Not using a cover glass on the new A1312 Sensors, and with it in the new DS1-D1312-160 CMOS camera, makes it possible to reduce the number of elements in the optical path. This leads to a maximisation of the sensitivity, whilst avoiding internal reflections and associated image artefacts.
With the A1312 series Photonfocus is introducing the first CMOS sensors of the 3rd generation into the market. The A1312 series is fabricated in a 0.35µm technology optimized for image sensors, thereby reaching outstanding sensitivity and quantum efficiency over a spectral range covering 350nm to 1000nm. The special pixel design offers superior sensitivity particularly in the NIR range around 850nm. The resolution of the new sensors is 1312 x 1082 pixels, with 8µm x 8µm square pixels and over 60% fill factor. All sensors are equipped with a very fast global shutter. The patented LinLog® technology enables a very high dynamic range of up to 120dB combined with high speed. The fastest version of the sensor delivers 110fps @ full resolution. The frame rate can be further increased by a flexible ROI or MROIs, which profit from vertical as well as horizontal windowing to achieve thousands of frames per second.
With the MV-D1024E-3D01-160 camera Photonfocus is able to present to you a camera which is optimized for 3D laser triangulation applications. The new camera incorporates the Photonfocus proprietary CMOS A1024 Sensor with the well known LinLog® technology patented by Photonfocus. The high dynamic linear-logarithmic response camera from Photonfocus offers many significant advantages over linear-response cameras when it comes to laser triangulation applications. Photonfocus has implemented a newly developed algorithm, called Peak Detector, for an accurate and robust laser line detection in the FPGA of the new 3D camera. The Peak Detector offers a superior sub-pixel accuracy over the most commonly used laser line detection algorithms, e.g. COG (Center of Gravity), used in commercially available 3D cameras. All these advantages make the Peak Detector a very accurate and robust laser line detection solution.
With the new serie "Digital Standard" (DS) Photonfocus AG presents a high-performance, cost-sensitive industrial CMOS cameras. Our camera products feature Photonfocus-designed sensors with our proprietary LinLog® technology for up to 120 dB of dynamic range, global shutter, programmable regions of interest (single or multiple), high frame rates, industrial housings and much more at competitive prices.
The new CMOS camera DS1-D1024 series from Photonfocus is developed to support standard applications. The features were designed to guarantee easy handling so that the camera can readily get integrated in standard applications. The new Photonfocus DS1 series is designed to support cost-sensitive machine vision applications without sacrificing key features, performance or more importantly, quality.
The unifying concept of the control software PFRemote 2.0 assures full compatibility between the DS camera series and the MV camera series for the users’ application. The cameras feature an exceptional high dynamic range of up to 60 dB. The Photonfocus cameras are available with either CameraLink® or USB2.0 digital interface.
We would like to announce the new Photonfocus camera series MV2-D1280-640-CL-8. This camera was developed for customers requiring very high frame rates. 1.3 megapixel with up to 500 fps. CameraLink Full interface with 8 and 10 tap mode. High quality Photonfocus camera with CMOS sensor.
MV-D1024E-80-CL-12 and MV-D1024E-160-CL-12 are now available. You can place your order for the new models of the enhanced camera series. Please use the PFInstaller2.1 for the new camera models.
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Photonfocus AG has a new investor: IHAG Holding AG (www.ihagholding.ch). The new investor will assure the long term business- and investment-plan of Photonfocus AG.
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Photonfocus AG declairs the compliance with the EU directives RoHS and WEEE.
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