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FQ Vision Sensor
Compact Vision Sensor with Crystal Clear Imaging
Omron Industrial Automation introduces the
compact FQ-series vision sensors, a groundbreaking inspection
solution for packaging applications that combines high speed, true
color processing capabilities with built-in high power LED lighting
and lens, for an easy-to-use, affordable system. With camera and
image processor in the sensing head, FQ vision sensors offer a
choice of PC or optio
nal
TouchFinder terminal for setup and monitoring. Omron’s simple and
intuitive icon-driven menu system eliminates the need for complex
instructions and specialist know-how.
The first products of their type to employ high dynamic range (HDR)
technology, FQ vision sensors incorporate full color processing (up
to 16.7 million colors), built-in polarizing and halation filters to
remove glare for perfect contrast, and integrated high-intensity LED
lighting. These features enable them to provide stable inspection
even with highly reflective, low contrast and similarly difficult
targets where conventional vision sensors see nothing. They also
cope easily with piece-to-piece variation between targets and with
target misalignment. Models offer up to 32 simultaneous inspections
within a scene, ideal for inspecting complex confection placement
and color of individual pieces in a single pass. FQ vision sensors
also excel in label inspection, cap inspection, date code, and
color/flavor identification.
Key
Benefits
Easy-to-Use — 3 step control via intuitive
icon-driven menu
True Color — Discriminate between 16.7M colors
Crystal Clear images — Unique algorithms and tools
offer top quality image inspection
Accurate — Image Processing resolution is 752 x 480
pixels
Logging — Inspection history available and can be
saved in SD Cards
Versatile — Four different field of view (FOV)
cameras to best match your application
Flexible — Touch-finder or PC set-up; Local or
remote, Portable or Fixed
Single/Standard camera models — Single cameras
perform one inspection; standard
cameras perform multiple inspections (up to 32 simultaneously)
Reliable — Inspect nearly any surface type: Glossy,
shiny, reflective, etc.
What
Makes FQ So Different?
Omron’s unique and patented Double-Reflection LED’s integrated into
the FQ sensor/camera illuminate the target object in even,
consistent direct lighting that eliminates the need for costly
external lighting equipment. The illumination level can be
manipulated from bright to dim and inbetween to achieve the ideal
lighting for the application.
High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) processing eliminates halation (hot spots)
for superior image captures of glossy and highly reflective
surfaces. Omron’s advanced HDR technology increases the dynamic
range of the image more than 16 times that of a conventional vision
sensor. Without HDR, the halation phenomenon can often result in
unstable and unreliable images and inspections. A polarizing filter
provided with every FQ camera assists in cutting out specular light
reflections from highly reflective objects, leading to an even
higher degree of image quality, and hence, more reliable and
consistent inspections.
Real Color image processing in a low-end vision sensor gives the FQ
the ability to “see” image details competing sensors miss entirely.
All competitor vision sensors within this category utilize grayscale
image processing due to the high demand and associated cost of
processing real color images. The FQ vision sensor combines a
high-power processing unit along with real color processing
technology to offer 24-bit real color images that can discriminate
between 16.7M colors.
