Earlier this month, under the heading of “Cognex – MVTec update”, I said that the ITC had blocked the importation of HALCON while they investigated Cognex’s patent infringement complaint.
Seems that was yet another slip of my pen. A reliable source emailed me to say that HALCON can still be purchased legally in the US, which is obviously good news for MVTec. Said source went on to say that the case seems to nearing a conclusion and that the folks at MVTec appear optimistic.
I’ll have more information on this as soon as it becomes available.
But in a related development, Law360 reports that two of the codefendants, Rasco and Subtechnique, have settled with Cognex. Perhaps not what one would expect from companies that believe their case is strong?
Showing posts with label Euresys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Euresys. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Monday, November 9, 2009
Tools for real-world machine vision
The machine vision sales and marketing people work hard to make vision look easy, but as any one who’s actually developed an application knows, it isn’t. One of the issues I’ve wrestled with on many occasions is the need to mask out “don’t care” regions in an image. If you’re looking at parts that are 100% identical this isn’t a problem, but as soon as you have part-to-part variation you’ll want to tailor the mask for each image acquired.
European imaging specialists Euresys claim to have a solution to this. Their “Open eVision 1.1” suite of image analysis software now has a “Flexible Mask” tool which, it is claimed, “provide(s) a powerful way of restricting the processing to freely shaped parts of an image.” It sounds good, but I haven’t downloaded the evaluation version yet because it really demands C++ programming expertise to use and I lack the time, energy, and enthusiasm to get in to that. Give me a graphical environment any time!
But my lack of programming skills not withstanding, the Euresys site is worth a few minutes of your time. As well as software, they offer both analog and digital framegrabbers and they’re pretty much camera-agnostic, so there’s plenty of flexibility to work with.
European imaging specialists Euresys claim to have a solution to this. Their “Open eVision 1.1” suite of image analysis software now has a “Flexible Mask” tool which, it is claimed, “provide(s) a powerful way of restricting the processing to freely shaped parts of an image.” It sounds good, but I haven’t downloaded the evaluation version yet because it really demands C++ programming expertise to use and I lack the time, energy, and enthusiasm to get in to that. Give me a graphical environment any time!
But my lack of programming skills not withstanding, the Euresys site is worth a few minutes of your time. As well as software, they offer both analog and digital framegrabbers and they’re pretty much camera-agnostic, so there’s plenty of flexibility to work with.
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