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June 2008

Firefly MV Used in Chocolate Polly Inspection System
Chocolate sortingChocolate sorting

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Feature Articles

Firefly MV Cameras, LED Lighting, and Conventional Blob Analysis Team Up to Inspect Chocolates

 
Chocolate sorting

Cloetta Fazer is the largest candy manufacturer in Scandinavia, producing vast quantities of its Polly treat and many other confections on a continual basis. It is very important to Cloetta that a Polly always looks like a Polly. To free its workers from the manual inspection process previously used to achieve this, the company turned to Mabema Consulting, a small machine-vision system integrator providing turnkey automatic detection and positioning systems for the past six years, to build an automated Polly inspection and sorting system.


Point Grey Receives Precarn 20th Anniversary Commercialization Success Award

Don Murray, Director, accepts award on behalf of Point Grey
Point Grey accept Precarn award

The Precarn 20th Anniversary Commercialization Awards recognizes an IRIS or Precarn developed technology that has led to a significant commercial success. Nomination criteria for this award include: technology must be in the area of Intelligent Systems & Robotics; any IRIS/Precarn developed innovation that has led to significant commercial success; and technology must have commercial success. Point Grey was the winner of this award for the development of the original Triclops stereo vision system.

New Product Updates

Upcoming Events June to December 2008

New Camera Development Accessory Kit

New dev kit

Flea2 and Grasshopper users now have two kit options. DEVKIT-01-0001 includes ACC-01-1001, a 2-port 1394b 64-bit PCI card, while DEVKIT-01-0002 includes FWB-PCIE-01 (FirePRO™ 1394b low profile PCI Express card).


1394b Locking Cable Available in Shorter Lengths

New cable lengths

The FirePRO 4.5 metre IEEE-1394b cable with locking screws (p/n ACC-01-2006) is now available in 0.3m and 1.0m lengths to address a wider range of FireWire application needs.


New Wide Angle Lens Option for Bumblebee2

2.5mm Bumblebee2

A new 2.5 mm focal length option has been added to the Bumblebee2 family of stereo vision cameras to address customer needs for wider field of view.

SEMICON West logo

SEMICON West

San Francisco, California, USA: Point Grey will be exhibiting in Booth 8133 from July 15 - 18, 2008.


SIGGRAPH logo

SIGGRAPH

Los Angeles, CA, USA: Point Grey will be exhibiting in Booth 1134 from August 11 - 15, 2008.


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VISION Stuttgart

Stuttgart, Germany: Point Grey will be exhibiting in Booth 4A31 from November 4 - 6, 2008.


International Technology Exhibition

Yokohama, Japan: Point Grey will be attending the ITE 2008 show with ViewPLUS, our Japan distributor, from December 2 - 4, 2008.


Point Grey Holds Successful Exhibition at The Vision Show 2008

Vision Show logoDespite some very hot and humid temperatures in Boston, the show had the highest number of exhibitors ever, all of whom were ready to showcase the latest and greatest advances in cameras, optics, lighting and software...

Resources and Additional Info

Knowledge Base Articles and White Papers

Article Suggestions

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