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TKH Vision has opened a showroom in Cupertino, Calif., representing its brands for 2D and 3D vision technologies. The office marks an expanded presence in the U.S. for the Netherlands-based company: #Photonics #Cameras

Atlas Copco Group has acquired VisionTools Bildanalyse Systeme GmbH, a developer and provider of integrated solutions for quality control in assembly lines: #Photonics #Software

Sony Semicon | AITRIOS (global) has partnered with Ultralytics, a developer of AI-powered vision technology. The partnership will integrate Ultralytics’ YOLOv8 platform with Sony’s IMX500 intelligent vision sensor to enable real-time object detection capabilities on the edge: #Photonics #Sensors

A team at Nanjing University of Science and Technology drew on deep learning techniques to achieve high-resolution, high-speed 3D imaging using conventional, low-speed cameras. The new 3D imaging method shows that slow-scan cameras, which are low in cost and high in spatial resolution, can be used for high-speed 3D imaging tasks and can provide both high spatial and high temporal resolution: #Photonics #DeepLearning #Imaging

Industrial technology company AMETEK has acquired Virtek Vision International Inc., a provider of advanced laser-based projection and inspection systems: #Photonics #Lasers

NY CREATES’ Albany NanoTech Complex will be the site of a new National Semiconductor Technology Center. The University of Tokyo has found a way to make Raman spectroscopy 100 times faster. The Israeli Defense Ministry is investing big in a laser air-defense system. A list of photonics companies are expanding through new acquisitions. And a new robot-assisted laser procedure from the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT is helping surgeons with brain surgery. All this on a new Photonics Spectra Now. Have a tip for the PSN crew? Email us at [email protected] Sponsored by Reynard Corporation, https://reynardcorp.com and by #Hamamatsu, https://www.hamamatsu.com #photonics #PhotonicsSpectraNow #NYCreates #semiconductor #UniversityofTokyo #Ramanspectroscopy #israelidefense #ironbeam #fraunhofer #GoochandHousego #pheonixopticaltechnologies #IPGphotonics #cleanlasersystem #laserphotonicscorporation #ametek #sdigroup

Teledyne DALSA has entered into a collaboration with WiCKON Hightech s.r.o., a provider of advanced inspection and measurement systems: #Photonics #Inspection

Washington lawmakers want to see federal officials investigate Chinese photonics companies, citing possible threats to national security. Celestial AI acquires silicon photonics patent portfolio from Rockley Photonics. Registration is now open for SPIE Photonics West 2025! Fusion startup Focused Energy announces plans for a new HQ in San Francisco. And Hyundai Mobis wants to project driving details on your windshield. All this on a new Photonics Spectra Now. Sponsored by Reynard Corporation, https://lnkd.in/eAYTR2ZN and by Hamamatsu Corporation, https://www.Hamamatsu.com #photonics #PhotonicsSpectraNow #nationalsecurity #siliconphotonics #CelestialAI #RockleyPhotonics #SPIE #PhotonicsWest #FocusedEnergy #hyundaimobis

FEATURED PRODUCT: Open eVision: Embedded Performance from EURESYS Euresys keeps responding to the trend for more decentralized device-based expertise and processing by offering their recognized Open eVision image processing libraries for embedded systems. While imaging embedded systems become smaller, cheaper, and less power hungry, the porting of the Open eVision libraries onto these systems offers, where no centralized image processing is needed, the Machine Vision manufacturers and integrators the flexibility of deploying the processing at its immediate point of acquisition. Beyond running on x86 processors, the latest release of Open eVision also runs on ARMv8-A compatible processors running 64-bit Linux, such as Raspberry Pi, Nvidia Jetson, AMD Kria K26 SOM, as well as many smart cameras like ADLink Neon-2000, IDS NXT rio, Lucid Triton Edge or Baumer AX Series (and more to come). All Open eVision libraries are available for ARM, including 3D inspection, Deep Learning, subpixel measurement, alignment, surface inspection, OCR and 1D and 2D code reading. The acceleration of the deep learning functions using GPU is also available. While Open eVision Studio applications are not available for embedded systems, all versions of Open eVision libraries are compatible and it is possible, for example, to develop and save model files using Open eVision Studio on a PC under Windows and use them with the ARM version on the embedded system. Depending on the capabilities of the chosen target, it is either possible to compile the program on the target platform itself, or perform a cross compilation on a Linux x86 PC prior to sending it to the target. Latest releases include: Python compatibility, New EFourierImage format and tools in EasyImage to exploit results of Fourier transforms, Improved 3D Libraries, enhanced Easy3DMatch sensitivity through Normals comparison, EpointCloudFilter to filter out noise in PointCould, 3DViewer shapes to materialize geometric features, Eye Dome Lighting (EDL) improving 3D rendering in 3DViewer, Pharmacode reader, Barcode grading, OEM Keys extension to protect applications using Euresys Neo dongles, and more. #photonics #machinevision

FEATURED PRODUCT: Bandwidth and CPU Benefits for Imaging from Pleora Technologies Pleora’s new external frame grabber converts GigE Vision cameras into PCIe cameras and transmits high-bandwidth (up to 22.5 Gbps) imaging and video data over Ethernet cabling directly to a Thunderbolt port on PCs, laptops, embedded, and single-board devices. By eliminating the need for a desktop computer with an available PCIe card slot for a traditional frame grabber, designers can reduce system size, cost, and power consumption by using smaller form factors laptops, embedded computers, and single-board computers. To optimize CPU usage the external frame grabber’s built-in direct memory access (DMA) engine acquires and copies full image data into the memory of the host PC, freeing valuable processing resources for application tasks while avoiding packet loss. Designers can leverage the cabling and multicasting advantages of GigE Vision imaging solutions for more complex higher-speed applications while taking full advantage of the capabilities of lower cost, smaller form factor CPU platforms for processing, analysis, display, and recording. In addition to the GigE to PCIe frame grabber Pleora is also introducing a PCIe FPGA IP Core enabling the transmission of video up to 31.5 Gbps using USB4/Thunderbolt 3 cabling and a 25GigE GigE Vision 3.0 embedded interface with RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCEv2) compatibility. For embedded and sensor applications, Pleora is demonstrating its eBUS Edge software transmitter. The software converts 3D cameras, image sensors and embedded platforms into fully compliant GigE Vision & GenICam devices to enable seamless integration with machine vision processing. eBUS Edge has been designed into 3D and smart cameras and medical data transmission systems. #photonics #machinevision