Matrox Imaging White Paper - Color Machine Vision

Digital cameras with color image sensors are now commonplace. The same is true for the computing power and device interfaces necessary to handle the additional data from color images. What’s more, as users become familiar and comfortable with machine vision technology, they seek to tackle more difficult or previously unsolvable applications. These circumstances combine to make color machine vision an area of mounting interest. Color machine vision poses unique challenges but it also brings some unique capabilities for manufacturing control and inspection. Color machine vision Corporate headquarters: Canada and U.S.A. Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. 1055 St. Regis Blvd. Dorval, QC H9P 2T4 Canada Tel: +1 (514) 685‐2630 Fax: +1 (514) 822‐6273 Matrox Imaging White Paper Color machine vision P a g e | 2 Abstract Digital cameras with color image sensors are now commonplace. The same is true for the computing power and device interfaces necessary to handle the additional data from color images. What’s more, as users become familiar and comfortable with machine vision technology, they seek to tackle more difficult or previously unsolvable applications. These circumstances combine to make color machine vision an area of mounting interest. Color machine vision poses unique challenges but it also brings some unique capabilities for manufacturing control and inspection.