B&R is adding Deep Learning capabilities to its smart camera portfolio thanks to a collaboration with MVTec and AI processor specialist Hailo. The first product to emerge from the project is Deep OCR and achieves particularly fast read rates, even for fonts that are otherwise difficult to recognize. Despite a performance of 26 TOPS, Hailo’s inference accelerators consume particularly little power, enabling the Deep Learning camera to be used as an edge device.
247MP CMOS by Sony
Sony recently released a 247MP rolling shutter CMOS image sensor available in monochrome (IMX811-AAMR) and color (IMX811-AAQR) variants which have a 64.84mm diagonal, a square pixel array, as well as 5.3fps.