PA Technology commissioned us to design a product for part
of the Abbey National "Cornerstone" estate agency chain. The brief was
to design and manufacture a full colour frame grabber card to interface
to the ISA bus. The card was used to integrate full colour still
camera image capture to data compression techniques as part of the Abbey
National Estate Agency chain electronic office. These techniques have
now become commonplace but were leading edge technologies at the time.
Fibro Systems
Fibro systems produce an instrument to measure
substrate absorption (the capability of paper to absorb ink) by means of
observing and measuring the collapse of a meniscus formed by a drop
falling onto the substrate. We designed and manufactured a frame
grabber to control the timing of the drop actuator and capture into
memory a sequence of images in real time. The images were then available
for replay and to a PC for analysis. Two versions of this card have been
produced, an ISA bus version which was followed by a PCI version.
BAe Systems
We were commissioned to provide an interface card to a
Pixel Fusion graphics card capable of capturing a monochrome image of 8
bit grey scale at a resolution of 1280 x 1024 pixels refreshed at 60 Hz.
Our brief was later extended to allow full DMA capture to the PC graphics
memory area. The board is reconfigurable to provide direct image capture
in a wide range of formats.
DERA
We were commissioned to design and manufacture
two linescan systems with image processing software and data archiving of
4000mm x 300mm X-ray films. The systems included the film transport
systems illumination and optics within a single enclosure coupled to a
host PC to provide image processing and data archiving.
