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Sapera Essential Software


OVERVIEW

Sapera Essential is a machine vision software imaging toolkit that combines board level acquisition and control with image processing tools to provide developers with the critical functionality to design, develop, and deploy high-performance applications. Sapera Essential offers quick and easy access to software functions to control image acquisition, manage image memory and facilitate image processing and analysis tasks. Sapera Essential includes powerful board configuration and camera set-up utilities plus a suite of image processing tools including a new pattern finding package employing correlation and geometric pattern finding algorithms, along with versatile Barcode and Blob Analysis functions.

CamExpert™ – Camera Configuration Utility
Sapera Essential comes bundled with DALSA’s advanced CamExpert, a proprietary camera configuration utility specifically designed to leverage the power of DALSA’s image acquisition boards. This Windows®-based utility provides an interactive environment within which to create a new, or modify an existing config file for area and linescan applications. Key CamExpert features include:
  • Enhanced graphical user interface with camera-centric parameters
  • Live grab and display window for online parameter tweaking
  • Sophisticated waveform view improves understanding of signal inter-relationships
  • Interactive waveform tools allows precise timing parameter setup
New Search Value Package
Sapera Essential features a highly advanced, yet cost effective, geometric Search tool that quickly and accurately recognizes up to 5 instances of a target pattern, regardless of their orientation in challenging lighting conditions.

Specifications & Application Notes
Datasheet

    KEY FEATURES

  • Cost effective machine vision software libraries for image acquisition, processing and analysis tools
  • Advanced functionality includes high-level tools such as an area/edge based Search tool, a 1D/ 2D Barcode tool and a Blob Analysis Tool
  • Trigger-to Image Reliability – a proprietary engineering frame work to ensure reliability of the image acquisition process
Sapera Essential Processing Tools

Image Processing Libraries
A series of highly optimized basic image processing functions, including: filtering, geometry, measurement, morphology, point-to-point, segmentation, transform operations and sub-pixel edge detection.

Pattern Finding
Pattern finding algorithms utilize both correlation (area) and geometric (edge) based technologies to achieve accuracy up to 1/50th of a pixel. Designed to work under poor lighting conditions, with difficult to detect patterns or with rotated images, the Sapera Essential pattern finding tool is fast, robust and accurate and is ideal for demanding alignment applications. View Benchmark for Search.

Barcode/Decoding
Locates and decodes 1 and 2-dimensional barcodes for a variety of standard codes. Designed to operate on degraded and poorly illuminated images, the Barcode tool includes rapid, robust algorithms and functions, and is fully rotational/scale invariant. View Benchmark for Barcode.

Blob Analysis
Separates foreground objects from the background and calculates more than 50 spatial and gray scale blob features, including: area, location, perimeter, elongation, roundness, convexity, bounding box and orientation. View Benchmark for Blob.
 

   

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