Boca Raton, FL (June 15, 2004) Imperx, Inc., an innovator in imaging solutions for the machine vision, medical, military and broadcast media industries, announces the release of new high speed CCD cameras. The IPX-VGA210 and IPX-VGA210C are monochrome and color versions of a camera capable of a 210 frames per second (fps) at full VGA resolution (640 x 480 pixels) and up to 3000 fps.
With such high speed capabilities from a CCD sensor, the camera fills a void in the market place for many diverse applications. This level of performance previously was only associated with CMOS sensors and not attainable by CCD sensors. Now there is a digital camera that delivers not only the high frame rate but also has the low noise and high dynamic range of a quality CCD camera. This makes the cameras well suited for many high speed inspection and fast process monitoring applications in the machine vision, medical imaging, intelligent transportation systems, character recognition and document scanning markets.
The camera, true to its breed, has inherited the flexibility and versatility found in all IPX series cameras from Imperx. This is most evident in the fact that the user has control over settings and parameters from the CCD sensor to the CAMERA LINK (TM) output. Parameters include selection of window size, horizontal and vertical binning, shutter speeds from 1/40,000 sec. to over 10 seconds, dual channel gain/offset, asynchronous external triggering, pre-exposure & capture duration, strobe output, gamma correction, frame rate, 8 or 10-bit per pixel, and single or dual tap output.
The IPX-VGA210 ships with a Camera Configuration Utility for easy access to all camera settings. This program provides an easy to use graphical user interface and communicates with camera(s) connected to a capture card(s) in the PC through the CameraLink TM serial communication port(s). Once configured with the desired settings, the parameters can be stored in the camera’s non-volatile memory to be loaded at boot up or stored on the host PC for future retrieval. An SDK version of the software is available for those wishing to develop their own applications.
