The PL-B742F is a high
performance, 1.3 megapixel color camera designed specifically for
machine vision applications. Fully IIDC 1.31 compliant, the PL-B742F
uses a standard FireWire interface for plug-and-play operation with
the host computer. Extended features, such as trigger and general
purpose outputs add a level of functionality to the PL-B742F,
providing excellent performance for the price. Factory calibrated
Digital Pixel Correction and on-board Flat Field Correction (FFC)
provides image quality similar to high-end CCD cameras.
The PL-B742F has
a rich set of features and capabilities all controllable through
software. A global shutter and external trigger allows for
synchronization in demanding machine vision applications. In video
mode, the camera can deliver up to 33 fps at 1k x 1k resolution, up
to 107 fps at VGA resolution (640 x 480) and up to 8000 fps at 724 x
8, all with user-definable region of interest (ROI). Full
field-of-view images can be decimated for high speed transmission.
The camera has a user-selectable 8 or 10-bit output. The CMOS sensor
architecture provides excellent anti-blooming capability. With the
Software Developer’s Kit (SDK), PixeLINK supplies an extensive
Application Programming Interface (API) and camera control Graphical
User Interface (GUI) for fast and easy application development. This
functionality includes additional trigger modes, general purpose
outputs that can be used as communication lines for strobe signals
for lighting and motion controllers. Included is an on-board
user-programmable lookup table (LUT) applied in real time, on-board
non-volatile memory for camera configuration and camera
configuration descriptors for quick changes to camera settings
between frames. Multi-slope dynamic range controls, enables balanced
exposure in images with large inner-scene dynamic range. This
extended Shutter logarithmically increases the linear dynamic range
of 54db to greater than 100db. |