Camera

F-Tac is a robot hand that can sense touch with 100μm resolution across 70% of its grasping surface, and can grasp using that touch feedback. “The spatial resolution combined with the enormous coverage are truly novel and were not possible previously,” claimed team member Professor Kaspar Althoefer (pictured), director of the Centre of Excellence Advanced Robotics at Queen Mary University, ...

Singular Photonics has spun out of the University of Edinburgh to offer two ultra-sensitive camera chips based on SPADs – single-photon avalanche detectors. Both have in-sensor digital signal processing. Development has been lead by Professor Robert Henderson, head of Edinburgh’s CMOS Sensors and Systems Group, and a pioneer of SPAD-based image sensors: he co-designed one in 2005, and in 2013 ...

At SPIE Photonics West in a fortnight, Vision Components will demonstrate Raspberry Pi 5 software drivers for its VC MIPI Cameras, which also cover the Raspberry Pi Hailo TPU HAT. “Embedded vision applications with and without AI can be implemented, using all VC MIPI Cameras and the Raspberry Pi processor board,” according to the German company. The drivers will be ...

Microchip has introduced a board that adapts MIPI CSI based cameras to Nvidia’s Holoscan ecosystem – its Jetson AGX Orin and IGX Orin developer kits in particular. The board, called ‘PolarFire FPGA Ethernet sensor bridge’, has two 10Gbit/s SFP+ Ethernet ports that connect to the Nvidia kit and two MIPI CSI-2 receive ports for cameras. An FMC slot provides expansion ...

Fluke has launched a pocket-sized thermal camera that plugs into mobile phones. It has a resolution of 256 x 192, a 25Hz frame-rate and a temperature range of -10 to +550°C (±2% or ±2°C). The camera has “real-time high and low temperature markers, with comprehensive temperature analysis for spot, line and area, supported with a thermal imaging app”, said the ...

A simple non-contact camera technique has been used to analyse blood lipid levels after  someone eats high-fat and low-fat meals, and agrees well with blood sample based measurements. Spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) is the technique, where a light source obliquely illuminates the surface to be analysed and the camera take a perpendicular view. In this case, the surface was ...

We covered the camera system used in the Sphere Entertainment dome only recently, and it already has a rival...

Innodisk’s EV2U-SGR1 Camera Module revolutionizes smart parking management by offering high-quality image capturing for smart parking meters. This allows the advantage for smart parking meters to replace traditional manual enforcement methods, providing a convenient solution with features like automatic license plate recognition and real-time monitoring. This not only optimizes space usage and enhances efficiency but also relieves the burden of ...

Ambarella has announced a pair of 5nm AI camera processors for  in-vehicle fleet telematics. “CV75AX provides up to 2x the AI performance over Ambarella’s prior-generation SoC, enabling the latest transformer neural networks for improved accuracy and reduced false positives without having to train for every object. [It] also provides the AI horsepower for more complex driver-scoring models,” according to the ...

For Nvidia Jetson Orin system-on-modules, E-con Systems has created a rugged waterproof camera aimed at autonomous mobility applications such as delivery robots and agriculture vehicles. SturdeCam31 is a 3Mpixel camera built around Sony’s ISX031 sensor. “Leveraging Sony’s sub-pixel HDR technology, SturdeCam31 has been tuned to provide HDR performance up to 120dB and LFM [LED flicker mitigation], thereby providing a solution ...