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Photometrics Honored with Vision Systems Design 2016 Innovators Award for its Prime sCMOS Camera

Photometrics
3 May 2016
Alex Waite
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Photometrics®, a manufacturer of high-performance scientific cameras for life science applications, has announced that its new Prime™ sCMOS Camera has been recognized as part of the annual Vision Systems Design Innovators Awards program.

Photometrics was honored with a silver-level award for Prime, the first 4.2 Megapixel scientific CMOS (sCMOS) camera that actively defeats the negative impact of Poisson noise in low-light images.

“The touchstone of our 30-year corporate history has been preserving excellent photometric performance, while pioneering the next generation of scientific imaging innovation,” said Rachit Mohindra, Photometrics product manager. “We’re honored to be recognized by such a prestigious award program, and look forward to continuing to provide our customers with cutting-edge technologies and products.”

Prime is the first sCMOS camera to go beyond imaging with its sophisticated built-in mathematical intelligence, which quantitatively restores images that are buried in photon noise. The camera’s FPGA-based Embedded Signal Processing (ESP) engine enables powerful signal restoration and feature detection for localization-based super-resolution microscopy. These capabilities significantly increase low-light image clarity and provide new ways to address data glut, a common problem when imaging at high frame rates.

Prime’s intelligent features include:

  • PrimeEnhance™: Reduces the negative effects of photon shot noise and provides a three to five times increase in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). This allows for lower-light life science imaging, which extends cell lifetimes and enables capture of higher quality data.
  • PrimeLocate™: Solves a common problem in localization-based super-resolution data glut. Prime uses PrimeLocate to selectively detect and transfer only those regions containing localization data, lowering data storage requirements on the host PC.

Alan Bergstein, publisher of Vision Systems Design, said, "This prestigious program allows Vision Systems Design to celebrate and recognize the most innovative products and services in the vision and image processing industry. Our 2016 honorees are an outstanding example of companies that are making an impact in the industry."

The Innovators Awards are judged on the following criteria:

  • Originality
  • Innovation
  • Impact on designers, systems integrators and end-users
  • Fulfilling a need in the market that hasn’t been addressed
  • Leveraging a novel technology

The 2016 Visions Systems Design Innovators Awards Honorees are featured in the June issue of the Vision Systems Design magazine.

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