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Develops scientific and industrial imaging solutions for machine vision, research, medical imaging, quality control, metrology, and lab automation. Provides custom product development and system integration services. Off-the-shelf product line includes universal software development kits (SDK) for FireWire, GigE Vision, USB3 Vision, CoaXPress and CameraLink cameras, GigE Vision camera simulator, and an industrial and scientific image analysis package.

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Hardware independent GigE Vision camera SDK

POSTED 05/01/2013

A&B Software (New London, Conn.) announced the release of ActiveGigE 6.5, the latest version of its highly acclaimed hardware-independent library and driver for GigE Vision cameras. The SDK provides developers and end-users with immediate access to multiple brands of Gigabit Ethernet cameras in virtually any programming environment including C++, C#, VB6, VB.NET, Delphi, Java, HTML, Python, Adobe Flash, OpenCV, Labview, Matlab.
 
A key feature of the new release is 10 GigE support and Windows 8 compatibility. Other important additions include an integrated 1D- and 2D barcode decoder, hot-pixel correction, firewall traversing, SFNC 2.0 compliance, message channel and chunk feature support. The new DVR module offers multi-camera recording and playback to/from RAM and storage media, with selectable compression and triggering modes.
 
ActiveGigE offers comprehensive property dialogs with full control over camera attributes, instant access to image buffers and pixels, real-time image processing, transparent multi-color overlays of graphics and text, full-screen mode with monitor synchronization, histogram and statistical calculations, built-in background correction. Included TWAIN and DirectShow drivers provide a universal plug-and-play interface between GigE Vision cameras and third-party imaging and video recording applications. The SDK is highly optimized for multi-core CPUs and fine-tuned to dozens of popular camera models.