Intelligent camera with remote sensor

For challenging OEM applications with tight or angled installation space VRmagic now offers an intelligent camera with a remote and freely positionable sensor which is connected to the central unit by an up to 50 cm long flex-foil-cable with LVDS transmission. The size of the sensor board is only 28x19 mm.

Equipped with the DaVinci processor from Texas Instruments, the components feature a 300 MHz ARM9 processor running Debian Linux as an autonomous standard operating system and a 600 MHz DSP with 4800 MIPs. Developers can transfer their own algorithms to the camera from a PC using a cross-compiler, since both the host system and camera have the same API. An FPGA module for preprocessing the image data is optionally integrated into the camera. The overall camera performance is optimized through distribution of computing processes to ARM, DSP and FPGA (load balancing). The components are equipped with 128 MB RAM and a 512 MB flash module – both can be extended. A high level of data security is guaranteed by a stable and fast file system. The supported interfaces include Ethernet, USB 2.0 Host, RS232 and General Purpose I/O, Analog Video Output as well as optionally CAN Bus and PROFIBUS.

The 1/3-inch CMOS sensor with global shutter is capable of producing 69 images per second at a resolution of 752x480 pixels and 80 images per second at a resolution of 640x480 pixels. This makes the camera ideal for capturing both still images as well as fast motion sequences. It is available in monochrome and color, as a board camera (VRmDC-12eOEM) or equipped with standard M12 optics (VRmDC-12eCOB). The size of the central unit is 42x38x33 mm.

About VRmagic
Founded in Mannheim, Germany, in 2001, VRmagic develops, manufactures and sells cameras for industrial image processing, optical tracking systems and VR technology. A second business division specializes in simulators for surgical training.
 

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