With less than one cubic inch, this USB 2.0 camera is packed with a full set of smart features. The ultra-compact design features an 8 Megapixel sensor and comes with built-in autofocus and a DSP that provides powerful functionality that until now was only available in consumer market cameras.

The USB uEye XS is the first camera that integrates all of this functionality into a compact industrial camera that comes with a complete SDK.

The face tracking feature can detect and track up to four different faces in real-time image acquisition mode while returning even the angle it’s detecting for each face.
The stabilization function helps prevent blurred images caused by camera movement and vibration. The uEye XS also comes with automatic image controls such as Auto Exposure and Auto White Balance that allows the user to achieve optimum image quality under varying lighting conditions. The Auto Focus system has a horizontal viewing angle of 53° and has a minimum focusing distance of 100 mm.

Auto Focus is also tracked even during live image acquisition at a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels and a 15 fps frame rate. The frames can be transferred uncompressed or in MJPEG format. Single frames are transferred at full 8-megapixel resolution.

The USB uEye XS supports the latest version 3.50 of the proven, easy-to-use uEye software package.

The uEye XS will be available in 1st quarter of 2010.

Now available are new USB and GigE cameras designed around a newly released 10.6 Megapixel CMOS sensor from Aptina. This new sensor provides four times the resolution of High Definition Television (HDTV). And thanks to the 1/2" optical format, it can capture even the tiniest details with a high level of accuracy even with a large field of view.

Cameras with this new sensor are available in all uEye series, from the lower-cost board-level USB uEye LE to the high-end GigE uEye HE.

This new 10 Megapixel model comes with built-in scaling that allows image size reduction in real-time. In this mode the sensor can scale the image size in factors from 1.0 to 8.0. While the USB 2.0 camera models will achieve a frame rate of 3 fps in 10 Megapixel mode, the GigE models will deliver up to 8 fps and can transfer full 12 bit color depth. All camera models also provide AOI (area of interest), binning and sub-sampling modes for quick previews and live image acquisition. HDTV 1080p resolution is also achievable and so are frame rates of over 100 fps.

• Splash-water resistant and dustproof
  housing
• M3 and M5 mounting threads on all sides
• High-quality CCD- and CMOS sensors with resolutions up to 10 megapixel
• Fully compliant with the IP65 / 67 standards
• Protective lens tubes

With the GigE uEye RE, we have added another IP65/IP67 rated industrial camera line to our portfolio. This model features a dust and waterproof housing and was especially designed for harsh industrial environments. All connectors also meet the IP65/IP67 standards, including the RJ45 connector for the GigE interface and the I/O and Trigger/Strobe connector. GigE uEye RE cameras

are available with a complete line of accessories that include dustproof and splash-water resistant lens tubes and various types of drag-chain cables. In addition to the higher bandwidth made available by the Gigabit Ethernet interface, cable lengths of up to 100 meters can also be used with these cameras. GigE uEye RE cameras are available with CCD and CMOS sensors and resolutions ranging from VGA up to 10 Megapixel.

• Ultra high dynamic range
• Real logarithmic curve
• 14-bit color depth (ADC)
• 50 frames/sec (fps)

IDS is one of the first manufacturers to deliver a complete camera line with a real High Dynamic Range (HDR) sensor. This technology allows capturing images with a dynamic range of over 120 dB, which is about 1,000 times more than conventional CCD sensors can provide. The HDR sensor is available in most of the USB and all GigE industrial cameras in the uEye family. Previous image sensors, e.g. those based on CCD technology, were far inferior than the human eye in terms of contrast range. In some application areas, such as traffic safety, extreme brightness differences can occur which conventional cameras

cannot represent at an optimal level. Important details located in very bright areas of the image are lost. The monochrome HDR sensor featured in uEye cameras has a completely different design and uses a real logarithmic curve. This significantly reduces visible noise compared to other HDR technologies. As a result, GigE uEye HE cameras can read outand process the full 12-bit color depth,

for example. uEye HDR cameras are thus particularly useful in all applications that have extreme brightness differences – from day/night surveillance systems through to real-time control systems in robotics. The sensor is 1/1.8" in size and captures up to 50 fps at full 768 x 576 pixel resolution.