Point Grey, a designer and manufacturer of high-performance digital cameras, announced plug-and-play interoperability between Point Grey’s Flea3 universal serial bus (USB) 3.0 Vision cameras and National Instruments (NI) Vision Acquisition Software, Vision Builder for Automated Inspection (AI) and LabVIEW Vision Development Module.
USB3 Vision is a machine-vision interface standard designed to enable integration between USB 3.0 cameras, cables and image-processing libraries from different vendors. The standard defines a stream and control protocol, which leverages gigabit Ethernet (GigE) Vision and GenICam by relying on a standard format naming convention (SFNC) to maintain consistency in functionality and attribute naming. Existing GigE Vision users can transition to USB3 Vision and vice versa.
Point Grey and NI are founding members of the USB3 Vision Standard Committees and key contributors to the development of this standard. Point Grey started the development effort early by demonstrating a USB 3.0 camera prototype in 2009. Eighteen USB 3.0 camera models have been introduced since.
Existing Point Grey customers can download the USB3 Vision supported firmware for the Flea3 FL3-U3-13S2 models directly from the Point Grey website. Support for remaining Flea3 and Grasshopper3 USB 3.0 models will come later this year. Version 1.0 of the USB3 Vision specification is available for download to the public for free on the Automated Imaging Association (AIA) website.
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