Seeing in three dimensions: True 3D industrial camera sees three dimensions at once - and won't cost you an armand a leg

摘要

The innovative Efector PMD 3D camera from IFM Electronic is, the company asserts, the first industrial camera that sees in three dimensions at once. Integration of IFM's unique PMD (photonic mixer device) time-of-flight measurement sensing technology into a full vision chip, has allowed sensor market leader the company to produce what looks like a really amazing device. The image sensor has 64 × 48 pixels imaging capability. And each pixel of this chip matrix evaluates its distance to the object, resulting in 3072 distance Values, The image of the object on the matrix and the respective distance-values therefore gives a 3D image.