Press Release
September 21, 2007
Videre Design LLC adds fixed baseline pre-calibrated stereo devices and extra wide variable baseline devices to meet a wide variety of application needs.
Menlo Park, California, September 21, 2007 – Videre Design LLC announced today the availability of a new line of pre-calibrated, rugged stereo devices that are designed for a wide variety of applications. Fixed baseline models are factory calibrated to offer a true plug and play experience. And with heavy duty, milled aluminum bodies, the cameras are less susceptible to environmental stress and are able to maintain their calibration over time.
New fixed baseline options fit a wide range of applications. The 6 cm baseline is appropriate for close work such as head tracking and gesture recognition. The 9 cm and 15 cm baselines are excellent for moderate distances of 15-20 meters indoors or outdoors for such applications as people tracking and obstacle detection and avoidance. The 30 cm baseline is useful for long distance sensing, such as outdoor scene reconstruction and obstacle detection from vehicles. The new extra-long variable baseline from 18-60 cm works well for long-range sensing experiments.
Improving the Out-of-the-Box Experience
With factory calibration, the time and hassle of set-up is reduced. The cameras can be used immediately. The increased rigidity of the industrial-strength milled aluminum alloy frame and heavy-duty extra-long variable baseline rig ensure that the calibration is maintained.
Offering a Wide Range of Customizable Stereo Devices
With fixed baseline options of 6 cm, 9 cm, 15 cm and 30 cm, variable baselines from either 5-20 cm and 18-60 cm, and high-quality miniature and C-mount lenses choices in a variety of focal lengths, the perfect stereo device can be selected to meet every application.
Pricing and Availability
The STOC, STH-DCSG, and STH-MDCS fixed and variable baseline models are now available. Due to efficiencies in design and advances in the use of off-the-shelf components, Videre Design offers stereo devices at very attractive prices. In keeping with Videre Design’s vision – compact, inexpensive, powerful – these cameras costs less than other stereo devices currently on the market and offer better features. Please contact Videre Design at 1.650.323.6769, email sales@videredesign.com or view www.videredesign.com for more information.
About Videre Design LLC
Videre Design LLC develops and supplies the vision and robotics market with high-quality vision hardware, software, and mobile robots. Videre Design specializes in stereo vision hardware and software for embedded applications. Stereo vision provides real-time, full-field distance information, and is useful in a wide variety of fields, including robotics, personal entertainment, and space automation. Videre Design maintains a close relationship with SRI's Artificial Intelligence Center, and distributes their Small Vision System for real-time stereo analysis.
Using Videre Design LLC products, researchers, educators, students, and product developers create custom vision and navigation systems with excellent performance, easy and rapid development, significant cost savings and flexibility to address diverse applications. Founded in 1998, Videre Design LLC is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, USA, and has developed an extensive international client base including BMW, Deere & Company, Google, IBM, MIT, NOAA Fisheries, Siemens, the US Defense Department and most universities that study vision and robotics in over 40 countries. Videre Design LLC’s products have been used in numerous applications including people tracking, Google book project, DARPA Grand Challenge, autonomous vehicles, kiosks, and underwater fish tracking. For more information, visit www.videredesign.com.
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