Best-in-class video source solutions.

Line Cameras CCD & CMOS

CCD & CMOS line cameras

Best-in-class video source solutions

You want to image objects in high-speed motion? With maximum resolution, highest light sensitivity and lowest geometrical distortions? Then you definitely need a line camera. Ours are best-in-class.

Where line camera-based solutions beat area cameras
Every image capture or inspection system requires a video source. While area/surface types of cameras are great for imaging immovable or slowly moving objects, line cameras and linear contact sensors are the best solutions for imaging objects moving at high-speed.

Line camera-based solutions also surpass area cameras in terms of maximum resolution, better light sensitivity and lower geometrical distortion. An example of this is a series production book scanner built on the basis of a BAPIS line camera that delivers 24”x 36” scans in 400 DPI. That yields the astonishing amount of 138 megapixels per image – that fast and in high quality.

For the greatest field depth
Compared to linear contact image sensors, CCD and CMOS line cameras show their strength when very large field depth is required (objects of different thicknesses and structures) or when a physical distance between the captured objects and the imaging unit is a must.

Unrivaled image quality at high capture speeds

We build innovative line cameras based on CCD and CMOS photosensitive sensors.

Over 20 years of expertise enable us to build innovative and state-of-the-art line cameras based on CCD and CMOS photosensitive sensors. We have a large portfolio of cameras available from stock and will gladly assist you in selecting the model that best suits your needs, considering costs, performance and features. It’s also possible to develop your own customized camera based on BAPIS experience and your own specific requirements.

Tri-linear RGB cameras for highest accurancy: BAPIS specializes in true tri-linear RGB cameras – not requiring pixel color reconstruction techniques and therefore more accurate in fine details compared with competitive solutions using Bayer-matrix sensors. Solutions involving de-Bayering, however, are not a secret to us either and are also to be found in our portfolio.

Best-in-class CCD and CMOS line cameras: the CCD and CMOS line cameras offered by BAPIS not only belong to the fastest in their class but also offer unbeatable quality – with low noise, multiple image enhancement features already at camera level, LED illumination spectrum compensation and an entire processing path based on 36 bits per pixel in color.

Video interfaces for transfer rates up to 50 Gbps: the BAPIS line cameras can be equipped with various video interfaces. There’s a widely adopted camera link standard available in base, medium and full variants. With higher performance and lower cabling costs, BAPIS also offers a native G-link standard. Finally, the highest performance BAPIS cameras are equipped with a quad CoaXPress 12.5 interface offering an astonishing video transfer rate of 50 Gbps.

Innovative additional features at camera level: these include advanced flat field correction, sensor response curve linearization (with separate modes for rendering crisp text or high-fidelity photographic tones reproduction); color-correction matrices allowing the compensation of imperfections of the LED light illumination spectrum; color space conversion and many more – already available at camera level, with zero time penalty.

Features available in BAP line cameras

Some of the many features of our line cameras, which make our devices perfect for your imaging tasks.

Basic parameters

Line rates up to 155 kHz

Pixel pitch from 3.5 to 9.325 μm

Line length up to 16 000 pixels

Capture modes

Tri-linear RGB color, 24 to 36 bit per pixel

Dual line Bayer-matrix RGB color, 24 to 36 bit per pixel

Grayscale 8 to 12 bit per pixel (with multi-line binning option)

Video output interfaces

G-Link

Camera Link dual-Base

Camera Link Medium + Full

CoaXPress 2 x 6 Gbps

CoaXPress 4 x 6 Gbps

Other (e.g. SDI) on request

Photosensitive modules from

NEC

Renesas

Toshiba

CMOSIS (AMS)

Other on request

Capture and processing bit depth

Up to 36 bit color

Up to 12 bit gray-scale

In-camera processing features

Advanced flat field correction

4x3 color correction matrix for illumination frequency spectrum compensation

Gamma, contrast, brightness adjustment

Tonal mapping linearization based on 3x12-bit LUT

Color space conversion

Horizontal and vertical video scaling on the fly

RGB-color planes re-mapping also with a BAP unique fractional re-mapping mode

High quality RGB reconstruction (for Bayer-matrix based cameras)

Built in test patterns and diagnostic features

Line-to-line exposure adjustment option