Creating High Bit Depth Grayscale Images

Creating High Bit Depth Grayscale Images

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

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…

Press Release – Ajile and LACI To Collaborate On Research

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

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

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…

Ajile at AIA The Vision Show, May 3-5 (Boston, USA) – Come and see us at booth 1033!

Ajile at AIA The Vision Show, May 3-5 (Boston, USA) – Come and see us at booth 1033!

We’re very excited to be making our first appearance as exhibitors at The Vision Show this May, and we’ll be showing off some new demos that showcase our range of products at booth #1033. Stop by to see out our high-resolution color 3D image capture system, which is both fast and accurate. We will also be showing our system’s tracking abilities. Ajile’s DMD projector, CMOS camera, and lighting controller allow low-latency synchronisation that can can be used to accurately track objects even at high speeds. For more information about the products that will be on display, and some of the…