ADEPT has released Micro- PolyView, a 360°, 3D, multi- image optics software package designed to measure and inspect small objects whose dimensions range from 1mm to 10mm, using a single lens.
Traditionally, where a sample needed to be observed from a number of angles, different perspective views were achieved by deploying an array of cameras or by moving the imaging system around the component; both solutions being complex and expensive.
Opto Engineering’s new Micro-Polyview lens, however, is capable of observing and measuring an object from dif ferent angles by using an array of mirrors interfaced to a bi- telecentric lens. While keeping the top of the object directly imaged at the centre of the field-of-view, the lateral views feature exactly the same mag nification and the images remain in perfect focus even when the object is displaced.
This allows all views to be used to measure, precisely, the dimensions of components from different angles with only one camera and without mov ing anything.
The lenses are said to be eas ily-customisable and versions can be manufactured with a different number of views and mirror inclinations.
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