died suddenly on April 14 while on weekend leave at his family home "We are all shocked by this terrible loss," said Michael Cyros chief commercial officer of the company and a member of the management board "Our thoughts are with his wife and his family Frank was a passionate leader and all Allied Vision employees know how much the company owes its success to his entrepreneurial spirit." chairman and CEO of Allied Vision’s parent company TKH Group "It is with deep sorrow that we heard of Frank Grube’s death Frank fought for his company and the people in the company he was on the right track to disrupt the vision industry." Frank Grube spent most of his career in the computer vision industry pioneering the rise of machine vision in the 1990’s He was appointed CEO of Manfred Sticksel CCD Kameratechnik in 2000 after the small German camera distributor was purchased by Augusta AG (now integrated into TKH Group) Grube swiftly conducted a strategic turnaround of the company and renamed it to Allied Vision Technologies in 2001 Anticipating the trend to digital interfaces in machine vision cameras he transformed the company into a camera manufacturer Allied Vision drove the digitization of machine vision camera interfaces and quickly became one of the leading machine vision camera manufacturers worldwide Frank Grube grew the company into a truly global player with the acquisition of Canada-based Prosilica in 2008 and infrared and specialty camera manufacturer VDS Vosskühler in 2011 He also expanded the footprint of the company by opening sales and support offices in the United States (2006) He invested a large amount of his time and energy in further building up business in Asia and Embedded Vision which he considered the key growth markets for Allied Vision He was very attentive to employees’ well-being and always cared to share success with his whole staff through company-funded parties Christmas presents or extraordinary bonus payments," remembers Gerd Völpel "Frank’s spirit obliges us to perform and make a success out of what he has built," said Alexander van der Lof his ambition and his fighting spirit have been our inspiration for 18 years They will be even more so in the future to make Allied Vision the leading company he wanted it to be," said Andreas Gerk You must have JavaScript enabled to enjoy a limited number of articles over the next 30 days issues and challenges that they face daily Design, CMS, Hosting & Web Development :: ePublishing This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Vision and Automation Solutions for Engineers and Integrators Worldwide The Mako G-508B POL camera is built around the Sony Polarsens 5 MPixel IMX250MZR global shutter CMOS sensor that incorporates an on-chip four-directional polarization filter The camera features a GigE Vision interface that supports Power over Ethernet and Trigger over Ethernet and supports CAT-5e or CAT-6 cable lengths up to 100 m The Mako G-508B POL has M3 threads on the top and bottom of the housing and is available with CS-Mount or M12-Mount adapter Protection glass and various filters are also available Monochrome models ship with no optical filter Contact: Allied VisionHeadquarters: Stadtroda GermanyProduct: Mako G-508 POL cameraKey Features: IMX250MZR image sensor What Allied Vision says:View more information on the Mako G-508 POL camera View More Products Share your vision-related news by contacting Dennis Scimeca,Associate Editor To receive news like this in your inbox, click here Allied Vision will exhibit the Alvium camera series designed for industrial embedded vision applications Alvium cameras are built around a proprietary application specific integrated circuit with integrated image signal processor Image correction and optimization processing take place within the camera Both Alvium models support the NXP i.MX6/8 and NVIDIA Jetson platforms Available sensor resolutions range from VGA to 21 MPixels The Alvium 1500 model features a MIPI CSI-2 interface can be controlled via Video4Linux or Direct Register Access and is available in bare board and open housing models The Alvium 1800 model features a USB3 Vision interface Contact:Allied VisionHeadquarters: Stadtroda GermanyProduct: Alvium camera series Key Features: MIPI CSI-2 or USB3 Vision interface; Video4Linux or GenICam control options; NXP i.MX6/8 and NVIDIA Jetson support; VGA to 21 MPixels sensor resolutions What Allied Vision says:View more information on the Alvium camera series Share your vision-related news by contacting Dennis Scimeca,Associate Editor Listed above are industrial camera models, smart cameras, and infrared cameras. Among the visible cameras listed, most use either Pregius sensors from Sony Semiconductor Solutions (Tokyo, Japan; www.sony-semicon.co.jp) or PYTHON sensors from ON Semiconductor (Phoenix, AZ; www.onsemi.com) There's less of a trend in the non-visible cameras with four different sensors FLIR's high-speed cameras uses strained layer superlattice (SLS) detectors Teledyne DALSA's Calibir uses vanadium oxide (VOx) based microbolometers Xenics' Tigris-640 uses either an InSb or MCT infrared detector and both cameras from Sierra-Olympic Technologies use VOx microbolometers Developers and end users can test and debug their GigE Vision client applications and receivers, utilizing the GigESim GigE Vision simulator from A&B Software (New London, CT, USA; www.ab-soft.com) which turns a computer into a set of virtual GigE Vision cameras users can select between GEV 1.2 and GEV 2.1 versions of the standard inject artificial error conditions to the network assign a pre-recorded image or video file as video source and control virtual camera features from their client application "GigESim is bundled with a powerful GigE Vision Server SDK which allows developers and design engineers to turn their application or embedded computer into a customizable GigE Vision device with an assignable set of GenICam features," said Nalibotski "This can be used to convert non-GEV camera interfaces such as CameraLink or USB into GigE Vision cameras without utilizing any additional hardware." "The SDK can also be used to transfer data in the GigE Vision format between multiple computers on the network for temporal and spatial multiprocessing The latest version of GigESim supports 10 GigE and multi-NIC connections which makes it an ideal choice for developing distributed image processing systems based on the GigE Vision standard." Of course, by the time this article is printed, there will almost surely have been more GigE Vision cameras released into the market, with many more to come. Keep an eye on all of the latest GigE Vision releases and more here: http://bit.ly/VSD-PROD. Learn more about the GigE Vision standard, and other AIA standards, here: http://bit.ly/AIA-VIS In operation, the framescanner can convert regular 8-mm, Super 8, 9.5-mm Pathé, 16-mm, Super 16, and 17.5-mm frame formats to digital files. According to Müller, changing format setup can be accomplished in minutes by the operator. Changing formats requires the operator to exchange the gate and adjust the camera position and lens. This procedure can be seen at http://bit.ly/dRoOIn Unlike many systems used to digitize films the Müller HM Data Framescanner does not rely on projection or mirrors nor does it use a consumer camcorder to capture the images the Pike machine-vision camera from AVT is used to capture each frame directly from the film as it passes in front of a strobe light the achieved quality is close to the one used by professionals processing film archives for movie studios The camera used is a Pike F-145, a digital camera with FireWire interface that employs aSony 1388 × 1038-pixel ICX285 CCD sensor chip Thanks to the Sony ExView HAD technology used in the CCD high sensitivity and image quality are achieved Müller has implemented a number of technologies into the scanner to optimize the digital output quality a isopropanol fluid is applied to the film to temporarily remove scratches and mechanical damage from the film as it passes between the strobe and the camera The fluid temporarily cleans the film and fills the scratches on the surface making them invisible to the image-capture system the camera is triggered by a laser-based system that detects each frame change by analyzing the perforations on the side of the film This enables the frame rate of the camera to perfectly synchronize with that of the film Each individually captured image is transmitted to a host computer over the camera’s FireWire interface (IEEE 1394b) As the theoretical maximum data throughput is 90 Mbytes/s the scanning can differ between 25 frames/s at 1328 × 1000 pixels and 40 frames/s at 637 × 480 pixels The data stream consists of uncompressed images which can be transferred to any required output such as full HD Software converts the image stream into a progressive uncompressed AVI file to archive. Frame-by-frame output can be used for automated postproduction digital remastering. The operator may convert uncompressed film into any high-definition video format. After scanning, open source software such asAviSynth can apply sharpen and dust removal filters to improve image quality.