Microscan HawkEye 1600T, Manual

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Chapter 1 Introduction
1-2 HawkEye™ 1600T Smart Camera Guide Rev. 1G, Dec 2008
Product Summary
The HawkEye™ 1600T, one of our HawkEye™ family of networked smart
cameras, combines a rugged IP67 smart camera form-factor with the broad
applicability, flexibility, and proven vision toolkit of Visionscape®, and our line
of high performance vision boards. Designed for use in a broad range of vision
applications, the HawkEye™ 1600T provides a cost effective, easily deployed
solution for manufacturers to monitor quality, control processes, or identify and
trace parts on their production lines.
HawkEye™ 1600T Smart Cameras are configured as flexible, general-purpose
smart cameras with C-mount optics and separate lighting. Like all other
HawkEye™ Smart Cameras, the 1600T comes standard with built-in digital I/O,
serial communications, and Ethernet networking. All vision processing is done
on-board using a high performance, embedded CPU. A real-time, multitasking
operating system ensures deterministic performance and facilitates integration in
high-speed manufacturing lines.
The HawkEye™ 1600T offers an extensive array of built-in vision processing
tools, including Data Matrix and bar code reading, optical character recognition
(OCR), image processing, image analysis and feature extraction, flaw detection,
object location, calibrated dimensional measurements, and various custom
processing options. Developed and perfected on prior generations of our machine
vision systems, these tools have already been successfully applied in thousands
of production installations worldwide.
Setup of a new vision application to run on the camera is done on a host PC on
the same network using the same powerful graphical application environment as
the rest of the Visionscape® line. Our patented Visionscape® step program
architecture allows running the same vision application program on any
HawkEye™ 1600T vision Smart Camera or any Visionscape® vision board,
leveraging the end-user’s investment in application development and training.
Scaleability and compatibility with the rest of the Visionscape® family set the
HawkEye™ 1600T apart from other smart cameras in the market today. The
same point-and-click environment can be used to configure applications
deployed on smart cameras and framegrabbers.
The Smart Camera family supports 16 MB of Non-Volatile memory for Kernel
and Job saving (3 MB maximum avp size) and 64 MB of RAM for operation.
(Smart Cameras that ship from early 2009 will have additional memory that will
allow a maximum job size of 10MB).