The Scorpion Vision Autofocus Touch Video System offers a quick and simple interface for monitoring live camera images. The touch-screen display allows the operator to monitor critical work and to make the finest autofocus adjustments with a single touch one the screen.

Monitoring a CNC Machine

The system consists of a compact industrial camera equipped with an autofocus mechanism built in to the camera body, a heavy duty flexi-arm and a flat panel touchscreen PC. The camera is delivered with a selection of interchangeable wide-angle and telephoto lenses. Changing lenses is quite simply a matter of unscrewing one lens before attaching another. The autofocus button will then make the final adjustment to the image.

The camera is movable on the flexi-arm in a range of 360 degrees around the subject, allowing for close up, and rear view shots. Multiple camera systems can optinally be operated from a single touch-screen.

The image below shows a Scorpion Vision App concept calculating the minimum object distance between multiple objects.  This function can be crucial in many products or  automation system.

Scorpion Tool Components calculates minimum object distances

The following Scorpion Tool Components are in actions:

• STC-2011-0001-MinimumPolygonToPolygonDistance 1.0.0.6
  • Calculates the minimum distance between a path or a polygon
• STC-2012-0004-DisplayResult 1.0.0.3
  • Display the result in a given position

Simple configuration dialog for MinimumPolygonDistance

Application Areas

• Track / measure the distance between products on conveyor
• Measure the separation of wafers in production line
• Use to decide which objects to be picked by a robot

The integration of OpenCV into Scorpion Vision Software is a long-term strategic choice based on the following. The value created in Open-Source is tremendous- we at Scorpion Vision want to benefit from this by using the latest OpenCV, NumPy and SciPy libraries both to extend and improve our Scorpion Vision Framework and to provide our user’s the following choice:

• Use free Open-Source image processing
• Use Scorpion Vision image processing
• Mix and choose from Scorpion Vision and Open-Source image processing to provide the best combination and value

With the Open-Source strategy that started with integrating Python as Scorpion Vision scripting language integration of .Net, SciPy, NumPy and OpenCV has followed as extremely valuable additions. The results Scorpion Vision grows as a platform every day. With the innovation of STC – Scorpion Tool components the process will get even faster.

Scorpion 9.1 provides Scorpion Tool Component - STC based on OpenCV WaterShed algorithm

To try it out do a free Scorpion Download Request.

• ScorpionVisionAppsforSony.com

The site is dedicated and focused on Scorpion Vision Apps and Sony Cameras.

The core image processing is of course performed by the accurate, robust and reliable Scorpion Vision Software:)

The first extentions STC-2011-0001-MinimumPolygonToPolygonDistance delivers a non-trivial algorithm to find the minimum distance  between to polygons. It profits from the extremely valuable features in the Scorpion Vision Framework – polygon region of interest and polygon results. The test program STP-2001-0006-MinimumPolygonDistance demonstrate the basic but valuable feature of calculating the minium distance between two blob contours

Calculating the minimum distance between two blob contours

Check out the documentation : STC-2011-0001.MinimumPolygonToPolygonDistance

The tool creator and the man behind the image processing in Scorpion Vision Framework – Arne Sommerfelt pays a tribute to the best Open-Source – NumPy and SciPy which is the platform used to create the extention.

All components and test profile are tracked by the great KILN version control software fraom FogCreek.

3D Image with Battery Pack located by Scorpion Vision OEM

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• Click here - Tordivel Brochure.pdf 3.8 Mbyte
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The 3D Visualize Scorpion Tool Component create 3D drawings and models

We are moving ahead to turn our powerful machine vision framework into a development system Scorpion Vision Apps and Machine Vision Application. We have released a nice set of Apps for the Scorpion Mono Stinger and the SmartCams from Sony – read more

We are completing the new powerful Scorpion Vision 9 architecture:

• Scorpion Python Plugin – SPP
  • Our own python component technology form the primary building block for Scorpion Vision Apps – SVA
• Scorpion Vision Apps – SVA
  • We are releasing two to four apps pr month on target hardware platforms
  • We invite owner’s of Scorpion Vision SDK to join us Scorpion Vision Apps solution providers
• Scorpion Tools Components – STC
  • We improve the productivity by extending and reusing components based on the new BaseTool
  • The first STCs are:
    • 1D and 2D Barcode
    • MinimumPolygonToPolygonDistance
    • 3DVisualisation
    • InsertionSort
• The Scorpion System Management and Installer features
  • Internet Download and Upgrade of Apps and Applications
  • Access to complete and extensive set of 2D and 3D machine vision tutorials
  • Notification when an Apps or Scorpion is upgraded
  • An extensive set of demo profiles 2D, 3D, Scorpion Vision Apps

Tutorials available from Installers

• To assist traceability and development we are tracking all Scorpion Vision Apps,  Scorpion Test and Demo Profiles in the Mercurial Version Control System.
• As always lot of other improvements – the most important Calibrator save and load speed-up.

More information:

• More on Scorpion Python Plugins – SPP  in Scorpion Online Help
• Download Scorpion Vision 9.1 from Scorpion Support Web
• Read Scorpion Vision Release Notes
• Register with us  to get more information

The new profile generation wizard

Check the demonstration – Flash Animation contained in an exe-file

• Identify the color of an object or an area
  • The ROI – region of interest – is user defined
  • Any number of color class can be defined
  • The color classes are defined by the following
    • multiple color references
    • name of color
    • index of color
• Fast 30 – 100  classifications / second
• User define coordinate system
• Configurable IO with RS-232 and TCP/IP.

The Operator Screen of the app follow the standard app pattern and is very easy to use.

Color Identification - Operator Screen

Based on powerful ColorMatcher tool in Scorpion Vision Framework – read more about ColorMatcher

Color Identification Setup

Read more about

• Scorpion Mono Stinger
• Scorpion SmartCams from Sony.
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