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Theia Technologies is an award-winning American optics design and manufacturing company known for quality and innovation. Theia provides high performance lenses for a wide range of applications including machine vision, factory automation, video surveillance and intelligent traffic systems. Theia’s patented
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Theia Technologies Wins Security Today’ s New Product of the Year, 2024
POSTED 10/01/2024
Theia Technologies announced today that their IQ Lens™ System was recognized as New Product of the Year
in the Video Surveillance Hardware and Accessories category by Security Today. "It’s always inspiring to see
the level of ingenuity and dedication that goes into the products submitted for the 'New Product of the Year'
awards,” said Ralph C. Jensen, publisher of Security Today magazine.
Theia’s IQ Lens™ System which includes a motorized lens, motor control board, average calibration data, and
software with graphical user interface (GUI), Theia’s motorized lenses and motor control board are designed
for integration into video surveillance systems and intelligent traffic systems and use stepper motors to
operate the zoom, focus, iris, and filter of the lens.
Theia’s new IQ Lens™ line provides an average measured zoom/focus tracking curve and lens focal length,
plus design data for distortion, aperture and relative illumination for the family. Knowing the relationship of
focal length to zoom motor step position allows accurate field of view setup; best focus step to focal length
position allows best focus location with minimal focus adjustment.
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The IQ Lens™ line includes software and graphical user interface (GUI) that translates engineering units like
FOV or F/# into motor steps without requiring the user to look up which motor step correlates to what FOV, or
which iris step equates to what F/#. The new IQ Lens™ System also works with Theia’s fully calibrated lenses.
Theia has also launched the MCR IQ™Motor Control Board with software and GUI to convert motor steps into
machine commands that move the lens to desired positions. The board communicates via USB, UART or I2C
protocols.
Theia’s IQ Lens™ System with motorized varifocal lens, motor control board, average calibration data, and
software application saves the user considerable development effort and cost, speeding time to market. The
system provides convenience, flexibility and optimized image quality in a cost-effective package to support
today’s demanding video surveillance applications.