Imaging and Vision Solutions
- Imaging and Vision Applications
- Imaging and Vision Components
Imaging and Vision Applications
Imaging and vision technology has been enabling key innovations in a variety of use cases. Starting from factory automation (FA), the field is expanding to security surveillance, automotive, medical diagnostics, agriculture automation, and more.
To learn more about the applications and use cases, click on the links below.
Factory Automation (FA)
High-speed inspection
High-speed cameras are used to sort defects and abnormalities in manufacturing lines in a very high-speed moving environment. Typically global shutter image sensors with high frame rate is required to accurately capture the images of products without distortion.
Vision guided robotics
Robots are taking over more complex manufacturing processes with the help of vision technologies. Multi-axis robots can move their arms and hands like humans and see the subject using cameras and analytics & control software to guide the movement necessary to accomplish the tasks in the manufacturing process more efficiently and accurately.
Wide-area inspection
For scanning complex products over wide areas, such as inspecting solder joints on printed circuit boards, high-resolution vision systems are the ideal technology. These systems leverage high-resolution image sensors to capture precise, detailed scans in a single shot, enabling efficient detection of defects or abnormalities in the manufacturing process.
Professional Surveillance
Outdoor surveillance camera
Security cameras operating outdoor often need to tolerate both extremely bright light that can cause the image to blowout in the daytime and extremely low light situations in the night time that require high sensitivity of the sensors. To cope with the very wide dynamic range of lighting, camera's image processing component needs to be equipped with mechanisms called high dynamic range (HDR).
Dashcam
Dashcams need to record scenes of driving in various conditions in light dynamics ti capture necessary information to prove causes of accidents and license plate numbers. Image sensors need to be highly sensitive while providing high dynamic range capabilities for the camera processing engine.
Video Cameras
Broadcast camera
Typically, broadcast camera's product life cycle is longer than consumer products and anyone designing for it need to consider longer product life of its components too. Macnica offers various components with industrial product life.
Medical Vision Systems
Digital pathology systems
Digital pathology platforms leverage advanced imaging, AI, and cloud-based technologies to digitize and analyze pathology slides. These systems convert glass slides into high-resolution digital images using specialized scanners, enabling pathologists to view, annotate, and share slides remotely.
Robotic surgery systems
Robotic surgery systems are advanced platforms that enhance surgical precision, flexibility, and control through robotic arms, cameras, and specialized tools. They are often controlled by surgeons via a console that translates hand movements into micro-precise actions. Imaging and vision technologies are indispensable in robotic surgery, providing the surgeon with augmented capabilities to perform complex procedures with unprecedented accuracy.
Agri Tech
UAVs
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are used in agriculture in various ways; to assess the growth and health of crops, to analyze soil moisture and topography, to manage irrigation, and so on. Imaging and vision systems play great roles in collecting visual and spectral data for accurate analysis.
Crop sorting and grading systems
Machine vision technologies are used to automate sorting crops and grading fruits, vegetables and grains based on size, color, and quality. For speed and accuracy, image sensors need to high-speed, high-frame rate, and wide-spectral range. In the grading application, polarized sensors are useful in capturing dents and scars more effectively.
How does Macnica help you design imaging and vision products?
Any imaging and vision solutions must connect to other components using one of several competing interface standards. Macnica makes connection simple by providing the basic engineering required to evaluate, and then implement the best interface for a given need.
We offer image sensors, image processing components, intellectual property packages for interface, control and analytics software, and a hardware development kit perfect for imaging and vision product development, in addition to the design services to bring your ideas to production.
Image Sensors
Macnica supplies the leading image sensors from Sony as an official distributor for the Americas with technical support and design services capabilities.
- SONY industrial image sensors
- Stravis/Stravis 2 sensors
- Pregius/Pregius S sensors
- Rolling shutter image sensors
- SWIR image sensors
- PolarSense image sensors
- Event-based vision sensors
Image Sensor Pipeline (ISP) and Data Processing
Macnica's featured suppliers support imaging and vision applications in a wide range of forms and performance.
- Altera FPGAs
- Ambarella SoC
- Critical Link FPGA Modules
- iEi embedded computing platforms
- Lantronix SoC Modules
- Reflex CES FPGA boards
- TQ SoC Modules
Sensor and Camera Network Interface
Macnica's internal R&D team provides IP core packages for imaging and vision applications with deep knowledge of standards and targeted FPGAs.
Evaluation/Reference Design and Engineering Services for Production
Macnica's original evaluation kit enables customers to easily evaluate featured image sensors and sensor interface IP cores. Macnica also helps customers with implementing customers' imaging and vision requirements from concept, design, and to mass production with its experienced engineering services programs.
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