MV software becoming integral part of color imaging.(COMPONENT INTEGRATION)

As color machine vision slowly, but steadily, evolves (see page 10), software naturally begins to play a more integral role. Today's computers are processing color's much larger data signals increasingly faster. Many software manufacturers are developing new algorithms and tailoring existing libraries to more efficiently meet the need.

Stemmer Imaging's Common Vision Blox software, for example, is being used in a variety of applications. One example: inspecting oranges in Spain. To meet the need, a number of issues had to be solved.

* The movement of the ora