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Fire-i™ 400 Industrial Camera


Fire-i 400™ Color Industrial Camera incorporates the latest 400 Mbps FireWire TI chipsets, together with SONY’s Wfine CCD* sensor technology into a C-mount equipped industrial housing. A convenient solution for uncompressed sharp and color accurate VGA image acquisition.

The Fire-i™ 400™ camera uses SONY ICX098BQ Wfine CCD#153; a ¼" interline CCD sensor with a 659(H) x 494(V) square pixels array that allows 640x480 VGA output. Variable electronic shutter and progressive scanning technology achieve distortion-free high speed freeze of full frame images. Square pixels, with R, G, B primary color filters in Bayer array, allow high geometric color accuracy.

CCD Features
  • Progressive scaning allows full frame un-interlaced acquisition and shuttering
  • High identical horizontal and vertical resolutions, approx. 400 TV-lines
  • ¼" CCD, 659(H)x494(V) square pixels 5.6 um (H) x 5.6 um (V)
  • R, G, B primary color filters on chip, Bayer array
  • VGA output up to 30 frames per second
  • Low smear, high sensitivity, low dark current
  • Excellent antiblooming
  • Continuous variable electronic shutter
  • Color bar and linear ramp reference picture generator built-in
  • Low frame rate and Sub sampling, 0.9 W typical
  • Continuous variable-speed shutter
  • High sensitivity and Low dark current
  Packaging

The package contains:

  • One Fire-i400™ Industrial Camera
  • One C-mount lens cap
  • One CD with Fire-i™ Software, drivers and documentation
  • C-mount lens installation guide
  • One 4.5 m FireWire 6-pins cable

Boards Supported

Operates with any third party FireWire PCI or PCM/CIA OHCI compliant adapter, or any Desktop/Portable PC with built-in FireWire support.

OS Supported :

Windows: NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003/XP 64 bit

Part number: 2011

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Fire-i™ 400 Industrial Camera Specifications

Interface   IEEE-1394a (FireWire) 400 Mbps, 2 ports (6 pins)
Camera Type   IIDC-1394 Digital Camera, V1.04 Specification compliant
Sensor Type   Sony™ Wfine* ¼" CCD Color, progressive, square pixels
Resolution   VGA 640 x 480
Optics   C-Mount
Video Modes   YUV (4:1:1, 4:2:2, 4:4:4), RGB-24bit, Monochrome-8bit
Frame Rates   30, 15, 7.5 and 3.75 frames per second
Gain   Automatic or Manual Control 0-30 dB
Shutter   Automatic or Manual Control 1/3400s-1/31s
Gamma   ON / OFF (visual use / image processing use)
White Balance   Automatic or Manual Control
Color Saturation   Adjustable
Backlight Compensation   6 modes + OFF
Sharpness   Adjustable
Special Features   Software sleep mode, Color bar generator
Power Supply   8 to 30 VDC, by 1394 bus or external jack input Consumption 1W max, 0.9 W typical, 0.4 W sleep mode
Dimensions (WxHxD)   44.5 x 32.5 x 92 mm
Housing & Weight   Metal, 200 gr
Included Accessories   Fire-i™ Software, Tripod screw, Lens cap, 4.5m FireWire 6-pins cable

Image Sensor Characteristics

Item
Min. Typ. Max. Unit
G sensitivity 350 440 0.6/0.7 mV
Sensitivity comparison (R/B 0.3/0.4 0.45/0.55    
Saturation signal 500     mV
Smear   0.001 0.0025 %
Video signal shading     25 %
R/B Uniformity with G     8/8 %
Dark signal     4 mV
Dark signal shading     1 mV
Line Crawl G     3.8 %
Line Crawl R     3.8 %
Line Crawl B     3.8 %
Lag     0.5 %

* Wfine CCD is a trademark of Sony Corporation.


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