Kithara on VISION 2011

Kithara Software of Berlin will be exhibiting at this year's world fair for image processing, VISION 2011 in Stuttgart. Kithara will be located at booth 6C77 in hall 6, where it will be presenting the new Vision Module of the »RealTime Suite«, which enables capturing and processing of images in real-time under Windows.

The »RealTime Suite«, a real-time extension for the Windows operating system, has been used for high-performance solutions for Windows throughout the years by numerous manufacturers of test stands, as well as in machinery, automation and robotics. Now the integration of industrial image processing solutions in the real-time application is also possible.

Despite the extended usage of industrial image processing and efficient tools, there is currently no real-time solution for image acquisition and processing under the Windows operating system. Yet, it is required in mechanical engineering for immediate response to product defects, in order to assure quality.

The new module of the Kithara »RealTime Suite« supports industrial cameras with GigE Vision® interfaces and allows immediate controlling reaction at the end of the image acquisition and by arrival of images on the PC. The widespread image processing library HALCON, from company MVTec of Munich, is suitable for further processing of the image data in real-time.

The real-time interface for GigE Vision® cameras can be operated on up to approximately 120 Mbyte/s per port and so it is reaching far beyond data rates normally achievable under Windows. The system reacts on arriving images within a few microseconds in a real-time context. Thereby new solutions can be implemented.

The interface supports all current Windows operating systems, including Windows 7 (with 32- or 64-bits). The real-time programming is done in C/C++ or Delphi. The application can also be embedded in C#.