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Chemical Color Imaging

 

Chemical Color Imaging is typically applied by solution providers, like instrument builders, for industrial purposes. Its main markets today are recycling, food, mining and also the pharmaceutical industry. By adapting a hyperspectral camera with a real-time processing core, Chemical Color Imaging turns the camera system to an easy-to-understand and intuitive configurable “chemical color camera”. Since the output data is in a standardized machine vision format, all available image processing solutions can be facilitated for tasks like decision generation, counting or monitoring based on chemical information.

As a consequence Chemical Color Imaging enables you to use your well established machine vision solution of your sorting machine to integrate hyperspectral cameras that can identify objects according to spectral material properties.

Chemical Color Imaging is performed by a Perception System. A Perception System is a data processing solution specialized on inline processing of hyperspectral data.

The Perception System includes a high performance data processing unit with the Perception Core GPU and the Perception STUDIO including the plugins Perception ACQUIRE, Perception EXPLORE and Perception MODEL. Additionally, customers get access to our knowledge data base which is available as a wiki-system.

 

Who is addressed?

 

 

Machine Builders with competence in Machine Vision integrate hyperspectral cameras into existing machines in the same way as a color camera by adapting a Perception System. The advantages are rapid development of new applications, short time to market and a quick return of investment.

   
 

Machine Vision Experts use their existing image processing methodology to develop new applications based on spectral information. Machine vision experts now generate countless applications keeping their unique know how for themselves and winning numerous new customers.

   
 

Suppliers of hyperspectral cameras adapt their cameras with a Perception System to promote the hyperspectral imaging technology to the machine vision community.


 

Why should I use Chemical Color Imaging?

 

SHORT DEVELOPMENT TIMES

Till now every application based on hyperspectral imaging had to be developed from scratch and subsequently coded into dedicated data processing software. This process is time consuming and ties up resources.

A Perception System has encapsulated most processing methods that are known to be well suited for real time hyperspectral imaging in industry. Our customers don’t have the need to develop a data processing system for each application. Instead they are able to configure a Perception System within incredibly short time.

 

TO BE INTEGRATED INTO EXISTING IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS

By using a Perception System hyperspectral cameras can be integrated into the image processing system of your machinery which then is used to classify according chemical properties.

 

SHORT TIME TO MARKET AND QUICK ROI

By using a Perception System you can use your existing machinery with your existing machine vision system to provide your customers with new solutions, e.g. sorting solutions based on chemical material properties, within a few months.

Due that a Perception System is intuitive configurable by everybody you have very short times to market and consequently a quick return on investment for your unique machinery.

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Technical Details

 

Chassis:   IPC 19-inch rack; 4U
Power Supply:   230V AC, 12A
Configuration interface:   Gigabit Ethernet
Camera interface:   Gigabit Ethernet; Camera Link with frame grabber card
Output interface:   Gigabit Ethernet
Output protocol:   UDP
Connectivity:   Various hyperspectral cameras

 

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Industries

 

Food Processing

Machinery equipped with a Perception system produce safe food of the highest quality. This machines separate according to different grades, but also differentiate between hazardous contaminants and disgusting foreign bodies. Classification and control of the ejection unit is done by the well established image processing system of the machine builder.

Whether nuts, fruits or vegetables - Whether frozen or cooked - Whether peeled, washed or fresh from the field - machinery equipped with a Perception system avoid costly recalls and produce goods that achieve maximum returns on investment.

 

Recycling

Plastic remains plastic! Sorting machines equipped with a Perception System amortize in a short time. The Perception system processes the different molecular nature of plastics in real time and provides this information for the image processing system of the machine. So plastic such as PET is processed in purest fractions. Combined with color cameras the recyclate, separated by color and chemical material properties, is ready to ship after one step.

Regardless if plastic, paper or wood should be available as a salable product - Machines equipped with a Perception System recognize chemically different materials.

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