COGNEX INTROS ACTIVEX BASED MACHINE VISION SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT.Cognex Corporation Cognex Corporation is an American corporation that manufactures commercial machine vision systems. Cognex is the world leader in its field, holding an array of patents and employing academic experts. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CGNX), has introduced VisionPro, an ActiveX-based software development environment that dramatically speeds the development of advanced vision applications. Ideal for systems integrators, OEMs, and advanced manufacturing engineers who need to minimize development time, VisionPro provides a flexible, graphical programming environment in which applications can be prototyped and developed in a fraction of the time it takes with conventional programming. "Going from the proof-of-concept stage to getting a completed system up and running on a customer's plant floor can take us up to a month with C++ programming," said John Lee from Zmation, Inc., a Portland, Oregon-based automation systems integration firm. "With VisionPro, it will take less than a week due to its ActiveX compliance." "In addition to enabling fast prototyping, many users want the flexibility to develop highly customized vision solutions," said Justin Testa, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Cognex. "VisionPro eliminates the tradeoff between ease of use and flexibility, allowing users to easily go between graphical development and lower-level, advanced programming languages." VisionPro provides a drag-and-drop graphical interface See GUI. for prototyping vision applications using ActiveX controls. Once configured, these controls are easily converted into Visual Basic, where they can be used directly in a deployable application. Customized solutions can also be developed using Visual Basic or C++. VisionPro's COM/ActiveX software architecture enables third party components for process control, I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output , and machine control to be easily added to the vision application. VisionPro is available on a variety of Cognex frame grabbers, including the company's new digital frame grabber with high resolution CMOS camera A digital still or video camera that uses a CMOS-based image sensor chip rather than a CCD to record the picture. The CMOS image sensors enable the integration of all required camera circuits onto the same chip, making them well suited for tiny cameras such as in PDAs and cellphones. , as well as packaged systems requiring no PC. Each system features a comprehensive library of proven Cognex vision software tools, including the company's industry-leading PatMax technology for locating objects despite changes in angle, scale, or appearance. Cognex Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets machine vision systems, or computers that can "see." Cognex is the world's leader in the machine vision industry, having shipped more than 150,000 machine vision systems, representing over $1 billion in cumulative revenue, since the company's founding in 1981. Cognex's Modular Vision Systems Division, headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts Natick (Pronunciation IPA: /ˈneɪtɪk/) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. Natick is located near the center of the MetroWest region of Massachusetts, with a population of 32,170 at the , specializes in machine vision systems, which are used for automating the manufacture of a wide range of discrete items and for assuring their quality. Cognex's Surface Inspection Systems Division, headquartered in Alameda, California Alameda is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is located on a small island of the same name next to Oakland, California in the San Francisco Bay. An additional part of the city is Bay Farm Island, which is adjacent to the Oakland International Airport. , specializes in machine vision systems, which are used for inspecting the surfaces of products manufactured in a continuous fashion, such as metals, paper, and plastics. In addition to its corporate headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, Cognex also has regional offices located throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Japan, Europe, and Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. . [sections] |
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