Lighting that is uniform, soft, relatively non-directional and lacking in concentration. The opposite of point illumination.

VESA Local-Bus: a local bus architecture

Machine Vision software that is not bundled with hardware but instead is sold as a separate product

Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) is an interface specification that enables 3D graphics to display quickly on ordinary personal computers.

A type of signal in an electronic circuit that takes on a continuous range of values. The opposite of digital.

Application Specific Machine Vision System: a turnkey machine vision system that addresses a specific application found throughout one or more industries

Lighting used for the illumination of an area

All cameras covering an area at once rather than a single line at a time. Area Cameras are of two types: interlaced and progressive scan.

Placement of a light source behind an object so that a silhouette of that object is formed. It is used where outline information of the object and its features are important rather than surface features.

Conversion of Bayer color (obtained from a Bayer matrix or color filter array) into RGB color