New Products |
Description |
Sealed P4 COLOR OMNI |
Sealed ruggedized (IP68) version of the right angle P4 Color OMNI for use in harsh environments where
sensors might be exposed to moisture, washdown, etc.
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Sealed P4 OMNI 1.3 |
Sealed ruggedized (IP68) version of the right angle P4 OMNI 1.3 for use in harsh environments where
sensors might be exposed to moisture, washdown, etc.
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Corrected Issues |
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Coordinate Tool |
When running an inspection that contains a coordinate tool with the PresencePLUS program
being used to monitor the running inspection, the program might become slow or
unresponsive.
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Vertical Lines |
Vertical lines might appear on high resolution (1280x1024) sensors after booting
up a sensor in dark or near dark conditions.
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Blob Tools & Units |
A application error is received when units are changed immediately after deleting a
Blob Find Tool, Blob Tool or Color Blob Tool.
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Edge Tool |
Copying a Edge Tool with a circular arc ROI will result in the ROI being a circle.
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Test Tool |
Test Tool using Object Tool's object width does not fail when Object Tool fails
to find any objects
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Communications |
Added two new columns to PresencePLUS Sensor Neighborhood to display default gateway
and subnet mask.
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Internationalization |
Message box text when displaying in Japanese sometimes wraps and/or
clips text.
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New Products |
Description |
Sealed P4 OMNI |
Sealed ruggedized (IP68) version of the right angle P4 OMNI for use in harsh environments where
sensors might be exposed to moisture, washdown, etc.
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Major Features |
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Remote Command Channel (RCC) |
A simple ASCII-based interface that allows remote control of any P4 and ProII vision sensors using
serial and Ethernet connections. Commands supported by RCC allow users to trigger the
sensor, perform product changes, query sensor status and examine inspection output.
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BlobFind Tool |
A locational tool used to position other vision tools in reference to specific blob.
Supported on all P4 OMNI and ProII sensors.
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Coordinate Tool |
The Coordinate tool takes coordinate values from different vision tools or constants and combines
then into a single point represented by and X,Y coordinate and a rotational value along the z-axis.
Supported on all P4 OMNI and ProII sensors.
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Blob Tool |
Added filtering and sorting based on statistics
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Color Blob Tool |
Added filtering and sorting based on statistics
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OCR/OCV |
Expanded character boxing options
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Minor Features |
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Communications Tool |
Added hexadecimal escape characters to start and end strings
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Communications Tool |
Ethernet port numbers are now user selectable
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Pattern Count Tool |
Added angle and percent match to results tree
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Internationalization |
Language updates for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Italian,
German
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NTSC |
Maximum tool name display increased from 11 to 16 characters
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Image Export Utility |
Added new properties (IP Address, TCP Port, Connect) to support platforms which
do not support methods
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Corrected Issues |
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Geo Tool |
Non-symmetric rotation angles were searching opposite of the values entered
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Tools Configuration |
Licenseable tools indicate help improperly
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Bar Code Tool |
Default timeout value increased to 10 seconds.
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Recorder |
Windows 2000 PC's would erroneously indicate no space to record files
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Test Tool |
Tool does not fail if incoming Measure Tool fails
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Test Tool |
Multiple test tools could specify the same output pin causing unknown I/O state of that pin
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Edge Tool |
When using edge strength, improper number of edges displayed until clicking on graph
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Firmware Updater |
Added DEMO support for latest versions of sensor hardware
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OCR/OCV Tool |
Displaying flipped ROI's during ROI moves is now disabled during the ROI movement
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OCR/OCV Tool |
In some instances the minimum space between characters was using 2 pixels instead of 1
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Save Inspection Dialog |
Dialog edit field for filename was not handling overstriking in certain instances
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Setup |
WhiteBalance button was enabled without ROI first being drawn
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Major Features |
Description |
Help System |
Press 'F1' at any location in the PresencePLUS user interace for context
sensitive help
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Help System |
Directly viewable help system installed directly on CD for immediate viewing
without the need to install the entire application
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Pattern Find Tool Pattern Count Tool |
Now available on all variants of the P4 OMNI Sensors running this release (or later).
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Bead Tool |
The new Bead Tool with runtime annotation is now available on all P4 OMNI and ProII sensor
variants running this release (or later).
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Barcode Tool |
Added PDF-417 Barcode decoding support to all sensors licensed to run the Barcode tool
and all P4 BCR and P4 BCR 1.3 sensors with dedicated Barcode tools installed.
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Playback & Record |
Playback and Record are now supported on all color sensors
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Minor Features |
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Ethernet ID |
Now supports multiple string regions
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Industrial Protocols |
User selectable string byte reading order
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Sensor Neighborhood |
listings now sortable in PresencePLUS PC Software and the Firmware Updater
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Corrected Issues |
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Internationalization |
Users logged into PC with international characters in the username caused
errors during inspection loading
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Remote Teach |
Repeated Remote Teaches with Pattern Tools could cause system to become
unresponsive.
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Sensor Neighborhood |
inability to detect large numbers of sensors or sensors spanning different
subnets.
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Recorder |
Image recording (all sensors) would gradually slowdown after continious use
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Recorder |
Fast triggers during record intermittely caused system to hang
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Recorder |
Prompt to create new record folder prompting to create all intermediate folders
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OCR/OCV Tools |
Print Contrast set to Bright on Dark was not annotating properly in the Trainer Dialog
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OCR/OCV Tools |
Runtime results or previous trigger not cleared when tool fails on next trigger
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OCR/OCV Tools |
Fixed thresholding was not properly using the low and high threshold values
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Image Export |
Microsoft Vista users unable to conect to sensors
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Major Features |
Description |
OCR Tool |
Added the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool to decode character images
into text (P4BCR, P4OMNI, ProII, and all variants)
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OCV Tool |
Added the OCV (Optical Character Verification) tool to verify character images
decode to predefined text values (P4BCR, P4OMNI, ProII, and all variants)
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String Tool |
Added the String Tool to support string compares between OCR and BCR tools
(P4BCR, P4OMNI, ProII, and all variants)
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Color Blob Tool |
Added Color Blob Tool to specify blobs based on selected colors
an enhanced feature allows the color range to be specified (All Color Sensors)
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Average Color Tool |
Added Average Color Tool to decode the average of the color pixels within
the ROI into RGB or HSI space (All Color Sensors)
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Configurable GUI |
Added Configurable GUI support to allow customization of supported tools on a
sensor by hide tools and their enhanced features
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Tools Page |
Tools are now distributed into three groups (separate tabs), Locational,
Vision and Analysis
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Logging |
User can save all inspection log files with one click
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Minor Features |
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Color Match Tool |
Updated to illustrate colors on Color Wheel.
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Blob Tools |
Largest blob is now selected as default for grayscale and color Blob Tools.
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Barcode Tool |
Enhanced the Postnet decoder's read-rate and grades
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Barcode Tool |
Added the ability to use a timeout value.
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Locational Tools |
Support added to force a locational tool to absolute versus relative
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Measure Tool |
Support added to measure distance from the Reference Point of locational tool
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Color Blob Tool |
Now allows the acceptable range of color probe to be defined (HSI space)
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Corrected Issues |
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Communications Tool |
Spaces were erroneously being output when writing Math tool's output data
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PLC Registers |
Frame Number was not updating in the selected PLC register
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Test Tool |
Object Tool in Test tool where "All Bright" in test tool with min = 0 and
max == 10, would erroneously fail if no objects were found
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Math Tool |
Erroneously reporting two barcodes found when a barcode was NOT in reference image
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Edge Tool |
GUI crashing when copying an Edge tool (2007R2_BETA_4 release only)
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Math Tool |
With Blob Tool as input, in units other than pixels, was producing incorrect
results during run-time.
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Test Tool |
Was testing both Smallest and Largest Blobs when Compute Statistics enabled
and ONLY Smallest Blob was selected in Test Tool.
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Edge Tool |
When using maximum FOV, ROI annotations during run-time were incorrectly drawn.
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Pattern Tool |
Pattern ROI could not be rotated 360 degrees in the GUI
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Measure Tool |
Not failing if one of its input tools failed, tools should fail if any of their
input tools fail
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Blob Tool |
Annotations were not drawn when GUI was connected to older sensors
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Test Tool |
If Barcode tool used as Input 2,3 or 4 in Test Tool, barcode type would not get
updated in Test Tool if changed in Barcode Tool
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Misc |
Incorrect IP address was displayed if connection to a sensor failed
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Firmware Updater |
Not failing if there was not enough flash available, should indicate error
to user instead of attemping operation
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Blob Tool |
Changing circular ROI in existing Blob Tool caused errors within GUI
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Blob Tool |
'Minimum Radius Position' parameter was missing in results if compute
statistics selected in Blob Tools
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Color Match Tool |
PresencePLUS PC software generated error code 1001 when using Color Match Tool
when connected to older firmware versions
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Misc |
Zoom button would intermittently not change state when user clicks outside of
the image area.
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Major Features |
Description |
Blob Tool |
Added histogram output, major/minor axes and other statistics, ability to
discard boundary blobs and fills holes.
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Edge Tool Object Tool |
Elliptical and Circular arcs now supported
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Field Of View (FOV) |
User can now modify the height and width of field of view (can only adjust height
in Pro sensors).
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Barcode Tool |
Added UPC-E, POSTNET, reduced Quietzone for Linear barcodes, and improvements
to Linear code read rates
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Barcode Tool |
Added support for FNC1, Macro 05 and Macro 06.
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Firmware Updater |
Backup & Restore added for all sensors (provides the ability to "clone" a sensor).
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Minor Features |
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Math Tool |
Square Root function added
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Barcode Tool |
Added an ability to enable/disable grades in Barcode Tool.
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Geo Tool |
Added timeout
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NTSC |
Now displays inspection number and barcode data. When inspection fails, displays
name of first tool that failed.
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NTSC |
Option to not display any information on the image
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Industrial Protocols |
Support software generated Remote Teach with hardware generated Trigger
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Industrial Protocols |
Support software generated Product Change with sensor in hardware or software
override product select modes.
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Corrected Issues |
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Pattern Find Tool Pattern Count Tool |
Tools occasionally run very slowly
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Geo Tool |
Displayed incorrectly after product change
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Math Tool |
Fails in non-English languages
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Quick Teach |
Locks up PC Software when inspection includes a Pattern Tool
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Test Tool |
Output of all Test Tools on EIP/Modbus (Communications Tool) is zero if test
tool fails
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Load Inspection |
Loading inspection from host sensor using PC Software would reset Gain and
Exposure values.
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Object Tool |
Maximum width was set at 800 pixels
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Product Change Remote Teach |
Product change \ Remote Teach input active state was incorrect
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Load Inspection |
Grayscale inspections were allowed to be loaded into color sensors.
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Color Match Tool |
Failing during setup if preceded by a Pattern Find or Pattern Count tool
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Barcode Tool |
Checksum verify option was erroneously disabled within GUI
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