Generating Grayscale Images Generating accurate images with a variety of bit depths is an important requirement for a number of industrial and medical uses for structured light. This note looks at some of the techniques and tradeoffs involved in generating such images on a DMD as well as some of the applications. The ‘black and white’ images captured by early still and motion cameras effectively used a continuous scale to capture light variations by the use of chemistry to lock in the image. Projecting the images used the same approach. Moving to digital technologies meant that the gray levels in…
Ajile DepthScan 3D – Press Release
Fast, Accurate, Full-Color 3D Imaging With Ajile’s DepthScan 3D July 24, 2019 Ottawa, Canada: The new Ajile DepthScan 3D is now available; bringing fast, accurate, full-color structured light 3D imaging to a broad range of manufacturers and automation professionals. The system’s flexibility makes it an ideal solution for robotic guidance, with factory calibration enabling a working distance from 25cm to 450cm. Eye-safe and accurate to 50 microns, the DepthScan is garnering interest for use in automotive manufacturing and quality control applications. The system also comes with a suite of software tools for analysis, which are fully compatible with other 3rd-party…
Ajile Awarded Best Paper at SPIE Photonics West
Ajile awarded best paper for structured light 3D imaging of reflective objects at Photonics West, presented by SPIE and Texas Instruments DLP Products
Ajile Named Finalists in Prestigious Prism Award for Photonics Innovation
Ottawa, ON – Ajile Light Industries has been recognised for their innovative 3D imaging technology at North America’s largest optics and photonics conference, SPIE Photonics West. Named finalists in the SPIE Photonics West Prism Awards in the “Imaging & Cameras” category, Ajile Light Industries shares this distinction alongside photonics giants such as Nikon, Trumpf, Leica, and Hamamatsu. “We’re pleased to be named Prism Awards finalists for our DepthScan 3D imaging system,” said Alan Boate, Ajile Light Industries’ President & CEO. “The unique feature of the DepthScan is its ability to provide both very high resolution and very fast 3D imaging,…
Ajile Receives IRAP Grant for Next Generation 3D Imaging
Ajile is pleased to announce the awarding of our third research grant from the National Research Council of Canada via the Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP). This new project will support the ongoing development of the next generation DepthScan 3D Imaging system and allow research into new 3D analysis algorithms for metrology and vision guided robotics tasks. IRAP is Canada’s premier innovation assistance program for small and medium-sized enterprises, and is widely respected globally as one of the best programs of its kind. The support provided by this program helps businesses to transform their ideas into commercial success. Previous IRAP…
Ajile at AIA The Vision Show 2018
Ajile at AIA The Vision Show 2018 Thank you to everyone for taking the time to visit the Ajile booth at the recent Vision Show in Boston. We were happy to be able show you the DepthScan, our new 3D imaging product, running in two modes: high resolution area scan (4MPoint in full colour at 2Hz) which approaches line scanning in accuracy, and high speed mode (1 MPoint at 22Hz) with real time processing and display For those of you who missed us at the show, you can view a high resolution area scan point cloud in our online 3D…
Thank You For Joining Us at Photonics West 2018!
Thank You For Joining Us at Photonics West 2018! A huge thanks to the many visitors to our booth at Photonics West this year, it was our best showing yet and is sure to remain a highlight of 2018 for us. This year at the show we launched our new 3D Imaging System, which was running live at the booth. The system uses our own structured light DMD projector, synchronized via an advanced triggering interface with our smart camera to capture 4 million full color 3D points in 250 ms. The system’s fast data transfer via USB 3.0, plus GPU…
Press Release – Ajile and LACI To Collaborate On Research
PRESS RELEASE Ajile and LACI to Collaborate On Research By R. Gribben Jan 05, 2018 Ottawa, Canada – The Laboratory of Applied Computational Imaging (LACI) has announced its intention to use Ajile Light Industries’ high-speed DMD controllers for work on the development of high-speed 3D imaging technologies. This research will extend through the end of 2018, is hoped to yield new imaging techniques and instruments for use in research, industry, and biomedicine, and will be funded in part through an NSERC Engage grant. This is the latest in a series of contracts with universities, research institutes, and technology companies since the controller’s launch…
Ajile Light Industries at Photonics West 2018
Ajile Light Industries at Photonics West 2018 The team at Ajile is excited to be heading to San Francisco from January 27 to February 1 to exhibit at SPIE Photonics West 2018, for our third year at the world’s largest event for the laser and photonics industries. The program includes courses, seminars, research presentations, and training, plus thousands of exhibitors from dozens of countries at the main exhibition. Last year’s attendance topped 23,000, and the organizers at SPIE are anticipating a similar turnout at this year’s event. Of particular interest is the annual Conference on Emerging Digital Micromirror Device Based Systems…
Improved Imaging With Sub-Pixel Resolution
Sub-Pixel Resolution For Improved Image Quality As 3D imaging continues to become increasingly important in both research and industry, tools are becoming available to turn theoretical research into practical technology. Our systems are well positioned to do this, and we are now in the process of enabling sub-pixel resolution to achieve even higher levels of 3D image quality. A key limitation of optical instruments is the size of the sensor’s pixels. When features being imaged are smaller than the pixel size, typical responses are to use a more expensive sensor with more pixels per unit area or to modify the…