Microscan, the inventor of Data Matrix™ symbology and Code 128, is a world leader in providing machine vision systems, bar code, and advanced two-dimensional symbology readers for manufacturing and distribution environments. Microscan combines advanced machine vision and automatic identification technology to enable manufacturers to automatically identify, track, and assure quality throughout the manufacturing process. The net result for customers is improved throughput, better quality, and enhanced profitability.

Visionscape Software
Broad Collection of High-level Vision Tools



A broad collection of high-level vision tools already proven in thousands of machine vision applications and many new capabilities enabled by the performance of the latest generation of Microscan hardware are available. These tools allow the same system to be used in a wide variety of applications such as inspection, dimensional gauging, guidance, and identification. Examples of such tools include flaw detection tools for surface quality inspection, intelligent optical character verification (OCV) tools for mark inspection and label verification, dimensional gauging tools for non-contact metrology, robust Data Matrix and bar code reading tools, neural network-based trainable optical character recognition (OCR), etc

Optimized Low-level Image Processing/Analysis Libraries

Visionscape Software has a strong foundation of low-level vision processing tools extensively optimized for accuracy, robustness, and speed.

• Image preprocessing (image decimation, image resampling and flipping, image arithmetic, high- and low-pass filtering, mathematical morphology, etc.)
• Image analysis (area counting, gray scale histogram analysis, connectivity analysis, edge detection, projection, template matching, etc.)

All tools are accessible from a top-level GUI for use by non-programmers as well as software libraries for developers.




Built-in Set-up/Run-time Graphical User Interface

Such graphical user interfaces allow:

• Application engineers and system integrators without any programming skills to quickly develop and deploy complex vision applications in a point-and-click fashion by dropping appropriate tools into a vision program organized as a sequence of steps
• Installers and factory floor operators to select, set-up, and try-out preprogrammed applications and perform run-time monitoring/control of such applications

The run-time interface enables downloading different applications onto the board, starting and stopping them, communicating results to the host PC, and collecting, displaying, and uploading failed images or providing other diagnostics to the user.

ActiveXTM Component Software Architecture

Under the Visionscape architecture, ActiveX Controls encapsulate the core vision system functionality and user interface required to develop and deploy vision applications. Examples include the Job and Program Managers used for creating and editing a vision application, the Set-up Manager for training and testing an application, and the Runtime Manager for downloading, starting, stopping and operator monitoring an application

Users of the Visionscape software environment obtain programming access to these ActiveX components to develop custom systems by dropping the appropriate components into a Visual Basic or C++ application.

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