Date: 05/11/07
e2v launches, the first ever true 4K colour line scan inspection cameras
e2v today announced the launch of the new EliiXA range, their new industrial inspection cameras. The new EliiXA multilinear camera is a true 4K pixel (4096 pixels) camera, combining advanced features like row spacing of only 2 pixels (centre to centre), a line rate of 18 KHz enhanced blue response and three lines (RGB) or four lines (RGB plus a fourth line either monochrome or NIR).
The EliiXA camera completes e2v's offer on AViiVA line scan CCD cameras and will be demonstrated at the VISION 2007 exhibition in Stuttgart from 6th to 8th November at e2v' stand number
The EliiXA camera provides a significant advantage when compared to all the colour cameras currently available in the market. The arrangement of one 4K pixel line per colour with smart management of space correction, yields a true resolution of 4K and a high Modulation Transfer Function (MTF), higher than single or dual line cameras utilising interpolation techniques. When compared to trilinear cameras the ELiiXA is the only camera with a high speed of 18000 lines per second coupled with a minimal row spacing of 10 microns. This allows it to be more flexibly positioned in the system at angles that can be slightly away from 90° to the object. Blue response is also boosted, due to e2v's image sensor back-thinning process technology, providing the user with a wider choice of lighting options.
ELiiXA trilinear version (RGB) is already a solid alternative to expensive prism-based cameras and their costly specific optics. While in quadrilinear versions (RGB plus a fourth line, either monochrome or NIR) ELIiXA allows an all-in-one approach, with a single EliiXA camera capable of replacing a two camera system made of a conventional colour camera and a monochrome or near infra-red (NIR) camera.
“The camera has been designed to increase system efficiency and save cost at vision system level “explains Christophe Robinet, Strategic Marketing Manager for Industrial Imaging Products, “The EliiXA camera offers easy calibration (test pattern, flat field correction, white balance, excellent mechanical alignment), versatile implementation (trigger modes, output modes, bi-directional scanning, spatial correction), optimal mechanical design (
The EliiXA camera is ideally suited to web inspection (such as printing or currency), surface inspection (printed circuit board, wood, tiles), scanning (high-end document processing, film scanning, postal sorting etc.) and any inspection within food, pharmaceutical, medical and packaging systems. The embedded NIR channel is of special interest for the food sorting and the film/document scanning segments.
The ELIIXA cameras will be available in three versions; one trilinear version (RGB), two quadrilinear versions RGB-monochrome and RGB-NIR. Each version will be available in full pixel rate (320 MHz) and in half pixel rate (160 MHz).
Initial prototype units will be available end 2007, with first production units scheduled by March 2008.