Display testing equipment maker Radiant Vision Systems has won a major design award for one of its imaging colorimeters, the company said.
Radiant’s ProMetric I61 (61-megapixel) Imaging Colorimeter was recognized as among the best in machine vision by the judges of the Vision Systems Design 2022 Innovators Awards program.
The award was announced at the 2022 Automate show in Detroit last week.
Imaging colorimeters are used throughout the design and production of light sources and displays to evaluate visual performance based on universal and user-centric light measurement methods.
The devices have scientific image sensors and optical filters that allow them to replicate the human eye’s sensitivity to light, following a model of standard human visual perception defined by the CIE (International Commission on Illumination).
Using these devices, manufacturers can measure highly accurate brightness (luminance), color (chromaticity), and other values, and assess their visual differences over a spatial context—according to how devices are actually perceived.
Radiant Vision said it developed the ProMetric I61 to address the growing need for resolution in colorimetric measurement following the development of new display technologies like OLED and microLED.
Released on May 2021, the ProMetric I61 has more than double the resolution of its existing imaging systems.
This allows the system to maximize the number of sensor pixels applied to measure each display pixel—to ensure measurement accuracy—while still capturing the entire display in a single image—to ensure efficiency.
“At Radiant, we invest significant development effort to continue to increase the resolution of our systems to meet more demanding applications without sacrificing overall imaging performance,” says Doug Kreysar, CEO of Radiant Vision.
“High resolution doesn’t guarantee better measurement. In imaging, there are constant trade-offs between resolution, accuracy, and speed. The ProMetric I61 is the result of extensive component testing and innovative engineering by the Radiant team to ensure all of these qualities are maximized to meet real manufacturing demands for metrology in automated visual inspection. We are proud to have this effort recognized by the Vision Systems Design 2022 Innovators Awards program.”