Intelligent cameras embed new low-cost functions: Vendors are tailoring their smart cameras to meet a range of applications with embedded sensors, processors, and networking capabilities

摘要

Driven by higher levels of integration and reduced costs of sensors, processors, and peripheral devices, smart or intelligent cameras offer systems developers an alternative to complete machine-vision systems. These cameras lower the cost of integration and relieve the design burden of choosing individual cameras, frame grabbers, and software. Although this is proving cost-effective in some applications, it may be less useful when developers require open, easily programmable, machine-vision or image-processing hardware.