Omron Electronics LLC: Faster vision sensor

The F160 machine vision sensor combines dual cameras and high-speed processing to deliver 4 times the speed of competitive systems, and from 2 to 10 times faster image processing, Omron Electronics (Schaumburg, IL) claims.

Aug 31, 2002

It enables inspection speeds to 5ꯠ/min in a system priced at low-end vision costs and with OCR capability. It uses Quest Optical Character Recognition algorithm that doesn’t require character registration. Quest also adapts to fluctuations in character shape and size.

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