Although JAI’s principal business is developing, manufacturing and marketing area scan cameras, the company also has a long-standing tradition of making specialized line scan cameras. One of these specializations is within the field of prism-based color cameras. The new CV-L107CL carries this tradition on, and provides increased performance in a smaller package.The CV-L107CL was designed to meet these market requirements: a high performance, high speed 3-CCD line scan camera packaged in the smallest possible housing, using a standard interface.
JAI has fulfilled these requirements by designing a camera with 3 x 2048 pixels resolution, 19 kHz line rate, flat-field and shading correction, and the option of individual exposure time for each of the R, G and B channels, all packaged into a cube that measures 90 x 90 x 90 mm. The CV-L107CL uses the standard Camera Link interface. The user can select a 24-bit mode, which requires only one CL connector (base configuration) or a 30-bit mode, requiring two CL connectors (medium configuration).The CV-L107CL can be ordered with a Nikon F-mount or an M-42 lens mount.3-CCD color cameras provide many advantages over the simpler tri-linear color cameras: In a 3-CCD color camera, all three color bands view the object through the same optical plane, through the prism block.
There is no physical/temporal offset between the color planes, as is the case in tri-linear solutions. Because 3-CCD cameras only have one optical plane, they can be used in angles of incidence other than perpendicular to the object being viewed. This is a major optical challenge with tri-linear cameras. The dichroic hard coatings used on the prism parts of the 3CCD cameras, separating the spectral bands, are well defined and do not have any lifetime limitations.
Tri-linear sensors, in contrast, use dyes that are not stable over the long term, and that do not have sharp cut-off.The CV-L107CL will be featured at the Vision Show in Stuttgart, 8 – 10 November 2005.The CV-L107CL will be available in production quantities in 4Q2005.
About the JAI Group
JAI was established in 1963 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has subsidiaries in Japan, the US, and the UK. The JAI Group has annual sales of more than $70 million (USD) and employs 250 people worldwide. The JAI Group’s mission is to develop and distribute user-friendly tools for the professional international world market by combining electronic eyes and electronic brains into a meaningful whole. JAI has two primary businesses: JAI Camera Solutions and JAI Systems. JAI Camera Solutions is a component supplier that designs, manufactures and markets CCD and CMOS camera solutions primarily for the ITS, medical and industrial machines vision markets.
Our cameras help improve our customers’ businesses in a variety of ways, whether by improving quality and accuracy, lowering costs, increasing yields, or simply enabling better service. JAI Systems is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of specialized traffic systems. Our solutions are based on JAI-developed hardware and software, which is often integrated with third-party products.
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