Seeing 360

It’s been around a year since Cognex launched their system for inspecting cylindrical surfaces. Called OmniView™, it takes advantage of their ‘Pat’ capabilities to unwrap and stitch together images from four cameras. It’s a neat way of avoiding the complexity of rotating a part in front of a linescan camera.

Machine Vision Consulting (MVC) offer a very similar product which they call CircumSpect™, (in fact I believe MVC were the developers of the OmniView™ system – please correct me if I’m wrong.)

And now there’s a Matrox MIL-based competitor. CIVision have launched the ‘Lomax360’ system, which is discussed in detail in the April issue of Vision Systems Design magazine.

Competition really is a wonderful thing.