The USB3 Vision specification is the result of many months of collaboration between some of the machine vision industry's leading technology companies.
Machine vision is a familiar technology in manufacturing and industry, and is used in an ever-growing range of tasks from simple code reading and assembly verification to robotic guidance and 3-D profiling.
Machine vision is an integral part of the manufacturing process for many different industries. Manufacturers ensure the safety, consistency and integrity of the products produced through proper inspection, while being assured that defective parts are rejected from the production line.
At the time of writing, six years have passed since the launch of GigE Vision 1.0. The standard has become one of the dominant interfaces in the machine vision market and continues to grow.
Since the emergence of CameraLink, the first dedicated data transmission standard for machine vision applications, the industry has made major moves to develop new standards to meet the rapidly developing technological advances in camera technology and an ever-expanding range of applications for vision.
Today commercial machine vision software is classified along two lines: the conventional vision library and the vision-specific integrated development environment (IDE).