Machine Vision Software Colour Capability

DALSA Corporation a global leader in machine vision technology, recently announced it has advanced the color capability of its Sapera Essential software for machine vision applications. Sapera Essential (Edition 01/2009) is a cost-effective machine vision software toolkit that bundles board-level acquisition and control with advanced image processing capability. It is intended to deliver the critical functionality needed to design, develop and deploy high-performance machine vision applications, while at the same time significantly lowering deployment costs. This version of Sapera Essential provides support for Windows 64-bit and the .Net interface.

What's NEW?
With the introduction of the Sapera Essential Color Tool, the software delivers improved color capability which can be divided into four main categories:

Colour conversions : a series of optimized colour space conversion functions supporting RGB, YUV, HSV and LAB formats. Split and merge functions are also available for plane-by-plane processing.

Colour Image Processing : a set of basic image processing operators such as thresholding, histogram, projections, statistic, clustering and colour reduction.

Colour Calibration : a colour-correction algorithm trained from a standardized colour chart and used to compensate for different lighting conditions.

Colour Classification : a colour classifier trained from a series of colour samples and used to separate colour regions of an image. Coupled with a blob analyzer it is used to inspect colour images in areas such as food inspection and pharmaceutical.

What does Sapera Essential offer you?
Hardware independent, Sapera Essential offers you a single API and a comprehensive features set which includes:

• acquisition control
• image processing primitives
• blob analysis
• area and shaped-based pattern matching
• colour
• barcode (linear/1D and matrix 2D coded)
• OCR and lens correction tools

Fully compliant with DALSA's Trigger-to-Image Reliability framework, the latest version of Sapera Essential now also includes support for the Windows 64-bit and .NET platforms. Now, developers creating new code or porting legacy code to 64-bit operation have access to a complete software development kit (SDK) from DALSA. The Color Tool also provides both a C++ and .NET interface and is supported under Sapera Architect, a GUI-based image processing prototyping environment. Support for.NET platform within Sapera Essential allows for rapid application development using Microsoft Visual Basic, C# or C++ platforms.

Offered FREE
The Sapera Essential run-time licence (for the template-based pattern finding, shape analysis and lens correction tools) is given free-of-charge when bundled with various Dalsa image-capture and processing hardware. Sapera Essential run-time components are modular in nature and used to facilitate field installations.

Sapera Essential and Apept Electronic Solutions - your partners in machine vision excellence

Download Evaluation Copy
An evaluation copy of Sapera Essential for 32-bit and 64-bit is now available for download from the DALSA website. To learn more about these image processing and analysis tools contact Adept for further information to get to the Sapera Essential product page or take an Interactive Product Tour.

About DALSA's Machine Vision Products and Services
For more than 25 years DALSA has led the design, manufacture and deployment of digital imaging components for the machine vision OEM market, and now offers Vision Appliances for factory floor deployment. Today, DALSA image sensors, cameras, frame grabbers, software, and Vision Appliances are used in thousands of automated inspection systems around the world and across multiple industries including semiconductor, flat panel display, electronics, automotive, medical, packaging and general manufacturing.

Adept Electronic Solutions are "The Machine Vision and Imaging Specialists" and distributor of Dalsa Corporation products in Australia and New Zealand. To find out more Dalsa's Sapera Essential please email us at: adept@adept.net.au or call us at Perth (08) 92425411 / Sydney (02) 99792599 / Melbourne (03) 95555621 or use our online contact us page.