Technology

1.     Illumination
     a)    Structured lighting and color filtering
          (1) Near-IR and UV effects
          (2) Backlighting
          (3) Cloudy-day
          (4) Low-incident
          (5) DOAL
          (6) Structured laser
     b)    X-ray illumination
     c)     Strobe techniques

2.     Optics
     a)    Bright & dark-field telecentric lenses
     b)    Laser displacement sensors for 3-D data
     c)     Optical field splitters
     d)    Moire effect
     e)     Circular & linear polarization
     f)      Motorized zoom, aperture, focus lenses
     g)    Beam-steering galvanometers
     h)    High-magnification lensing and lighting applications
     i)       Fresnel lenses and collimators

3.     Software
     a)    Low contrast image morphology
     b)    Precision-alignment template matching
     c)     Geometric pattern matching
     d)    Automatic gain compensation
     e)     Trigonometry, linear algebra, 3-D planar mathematics, quality systems

4.     Line scan and area scan cameras