Industrial Image Processing

Pyramid Expertise No. 1: High-End A/V and video editing

 

Focus on some aspects of success

Performance

For graphical applications or digital / analog video editing, high computing power is needed. Since the 80's Pyramid workstations represent the highest performance and Pyramid systems and configurations always set the benchmark. Performance is our passion, benchmarks and harmonious system configurations our daily business. But here we also play safe, long-term availability and stability never drop out.
  

Components (graphics cards and frame grabbers)

High video I/O is crucial for high stability, industrial availability and top scores in speed. Our years of partnerships and solid relationships with vendors like Matrox, ATI or nVidia in combination with our partners MATRIX Vision (frame grabber), IDS or Advantech is an important success factor for long-term stable solutions. Pyramid provides proper mechanical fit and fixation even in harsh environments, provides revision security and sets BIOS, PCI bus and peripheral optimally to one another.
 

Mechanics

The mechanical part of IT is often underestimated. Strain reliefs for example can be realized by simple steelplate tricks. How to avoid vibration damage with special brackets or minimize the devastating effects of dust in sensitive electronics - these are examples from pool of experience.

We build high-end video display systems that are used in non air conditioned OB trucks e.g. at the Nordic Ski Championships or at the Summer Olympics in stuffy Beijing. They are rattled from venue to venue over hill and dale and provide the viewer at home with professional insertions and the most interesting widths and speeds. In image-guided medical technology we provide IT modules with exactly matched dimensions for microscope carts or cabinets. Noise emission and other unwanted side effects are largely avoided.


If you are looking for reliable hardware in the field of digital imaging, talk to us, we will give you references and you will love our reliability.

Applications and Branches

Automation, Industry

  • Examination of parts for dimensional accuracy and completeness
  • Examination of surfaces for proper pressure and accuracy
  • Assembly control of printed circuit boards
  • Control and monitoring of material flow
  • Process visualization in control centers
     

Traffic Management

  • Monitoring, metering and control of traffic flows
  • Automatic parking fees accounting via number plate OCR
  • Cameras in the car: distance measurement, el. rear view mirror, traffic detection
  • Monitoring / review of crucial elements (aircraft turbines)
     

Healthcare

  • Eye diagnosis (see above)
  • Classification of burns
  • Detection of tooth profiles

Retail Market

  • Empty control
  • Identification of consumer behaviour for human resources planning
     

Microscopy (medical technology, research)

  • Improvement and analysis of light microscopy images
  • Detection and calculation of electron microscope graphics
  • Extraction of laser scan images e.g. in ophthalmology

Security Technology

  • Compression, and recording of CCTV footage in banks and gas stations
  • Evaluation of in-image objects (video analysis)
  • Infrared Camera Technology
  • Recording of transactions at ATMs