New HALCON Interface For SICK 3D Cameras
MVTec Software GmbH (Munich, Germany) and SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany) have released a new interface for all SICK 3D cameras to allow smooth integration with MVTec's machine vision software HALCON.
The new HALCON 9.0 SICK-3DCamera interface is a unified interface for the complete series of SICK Ranger and Ruler cameras. The interface makes the whole functionality of the 3D cameras easily and directly available in HALCON, including the unique MultiScan capacity to simultaneously acquire 3D and 2D data. Moreover, it is possible to acquire calibrated and rectified 3D data. Thus, the whole functionality of the HALCON library is ready to be applied, including operators for morphology, pattern matching, measuring, and 3D vision.
"HALCON is very powerful software for image analysis", acknowledges Fredrik Nilsson, the product manager for the SICK 3D cameras. "This new interface will make it easy for integrators to use the high quality 3D and MultiScan data from our 3D cameras to build complete machine vision solutions with HALCON."
Customers who develop solutions for application areas like automotive & robotics, packaging, and life sciences can benefit from the easy integration of the SICK 3D cameras into HALCON. "This flexible acquisition of high speed 3D data is a perfect complement for HALCON", says MVTec's product manager Christoph Zierl.
About SICK 3D Cameras
SICK Ranger and Ruler are high speed 3D cameras for the most versatile needs. With their measurement speed, data quality, and high flexibility with the MultiScan technology, they are used in tough industrial environments worldwide for various solutions from small-sized component inspection up to large-scale log scanning. They provide the essential object information such as 3D-shape, volume, contrast, gloss, and surface defects - all at the very same time - needed for robust and reliable solutions.
About SICK
SICK AG's activities focus on producing increasingly intelligent sensors and sensor solutions for factory, logistics, and process automation. SICK provides, among other products, industrial vision cameras for factory and logistics automation. This product line includes Vision Sensors, Smart Cameras, Code readers, Accessories, and Cameras for high speed 3D Machine Vision. Target customers are Machine Builders, System Integrators, and End Users. Continuous innovation, its technological lead, and tight cost control ensure SICK's leading position in the world market and numerous industries. For more information visit www.sick.com
About HALCON
HALCON is the comprehensive standard software with an integrated development environment (IDE) for machine vision that is used worldwide. It leads to cost savings and improved time to market: HALCON's flexible architecture facilitates rapid development of machine vision, medical imaging, and image analysis applications. HALCON provides outstanding performance and a comprehensive support of multi-core platforms, MMX, and SSE2. It serves all industries by a library of more than 1400 operators for blob analysis, morphology, pattern matching, measuring, identification, and 3D vision, to name just a few. HALCON secures your investment by supporting a wide range of operating systems and providing interfaces to hundreds of industrial cameras and frame grabbers, including GenICam, GigE Vision, and IIDC 1394. Furthermore, HALCON is platform-independent and compatible to Windows, Linux, and Solaris. For more information visit www.halcon.com
About MVTec
MVTec is a leading manufacturer of standard software for machine vision. MVTec products are used in all demanding areas of imaging: Semi-conductor industry, web inspection, quality control and inspection applications in general, medicine, 3D vision, and surveillance. MVTec has more than 30 established distributors, located throughout Europe, North and South America, Australia, and Asia (China, Japan, Korea, India et al.). In addition, MVTec, LLC works out of Boston, MA (USA), to better attend the North American market since 2007. For more information visit www.mvtec.com
SOURCE: MVTec Software GmbH