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Building Vision for Business

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New Version HALCON 12Contact your local distributor for more information: www.halcon.com/sales

SPEEDUP With version 12, HALCON utilizes AVX2, thus running significantly faster on state- of-the-art processors. Further speedup is achieved in HDevelop and HDevEngine where the execution of procedures has become considerably faster by utilizing a just-in-time compiler.

3D VISION With the new local deformable surfaced-based matching, bent or stretched objects like pretzels can be found reliably, thus expanding the possibilities of 3D vision applications. Furthermore, HALCON’s surfaced-based 3D matching in version 12 has become more robust when processing noisy image data, e.g., from time-of-flight cameras.

IDE HALCON’s highly interactive programming environment (IDE) HDevelop has been enhanced with support of parallel programming and thus allows concurrency. For this, HALCON 12 now also supports event-based processing. As a special key feature for software developers, a new extension allows to inspect HALCON variables (tuples and iconic) directly within Visual Studio, thus easing debugging tasks tremendously.

IDENTIFICATION HALCON 12 eases OCR applications with a new technology for automatic text reading. Characters of any size are found robustly, in most cases without the need to adjust parameters. The new technology has an impressive capability to distingu-ish characters from background texture even under challenging conditions.

USABILITY By means of its new calibration plates, HALCON 12 reaches the same accuracy by using considerably fewer images. Furthermore, it is no longer necessary that the new calibration plates are completely visible in the image.

Camera calibration for Scheimpflug optics

Hand-eye calibration for SCARA robots

Improved usability of sheet-of-light calibration

Support of vector variables

Visualization of tuples as 1D or 2D plots from variable window

Calculation of the pointwise distance of two contours

New operators for bead inspection

Support of digital I/O boards

Interfaces to PLC control systems using the OPC UA and OPC Classic standards

More robust recognition and reading of bar codes that are damaged or of poor quality

Reading bar codes with small module size is twice as robust

Assessment of direct mark quality of ECC 200 data codes, compliant with the SEMI T10-0701 standard

New operator to simplify triangulated 3D object models

Stereo reconstruction with multi-scanline optimization

More robust sample-based identification with respect to cluttered background and illumination changes

3D scene flow

Speedup of several operators

Improved interface for 3D visualization

Message queues for inter-thread communication

Speedup of subpixel operators

New HDevelop start dialog

And much more

*Discount: 25% off the MVTec suggested retail price of all development licence products (upgrades and new licences) of HALCON 12 for all categories. This offer is available until December 12, 2014 from participating MVTec distributors. Reseller prices may vary.