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HALCON 11 Spotlight: Hardware

+ HALCON 11 Runs on Mac OS X
Since the beginning of HALCON, the software runs on different operating systems. In addition to the operating systems Microsoft Windows and Linux, HALCON 11 now also runs on the operating system Mac OS X 10.7. With this step, HALCON 11 has entered the Apple world to reach another worldwide established user community.

+ HALCON 11 Image Acquisition Interfaces
HALCON is independent from any image acquisition hardware. Because of this, HALCON provides a large number of interfaces to image acquisition devices. Also for Mac OS X, HALCON 11 offers a lot of possibilities to various devices. For more information refer to:
http://www.mvtec.com/halcon/image-acquisition/image-acquisition-11.html

HALCON 11 Spotlight: Automatic Feature Selection for Classification

With HALCON 11's new "automatic feature selection" option it is now possible to automatically determine, which feature extraction algorithm is best for a classification task. Prior to this, the user had to manually select which of the many feature extraction algorithms should be used in, e.g., blob analysis. Now the user only has to provide the training data.

The automatic feature selection greatly enhances the usability, because no manual selection and tuning is required any more.

It also enhances accuracy as the manual selection of the best possible feature selection is a difficult and often error-prone task.

Maintenance Release 10.0.3 for HALCON 10

A new maintenance release 10.0.3 of HALCON 10 is available for download
now. This latest maintenance release includes some enhancements and
fixes all currently known bugs. For reading the release notes including
a detailed description of changes in HALCON 10.0.3, please see
http://www.mvtec.com/halcon/download/common/release-notes-10.0.3.html

Note that there are no major new features in HALCON 10.0.3, it's
primarily a maintenance release. Of course, HALCON 10 licenses are
also valid for HALCON 10.0.3. Registered customers can download the
maintenance release here:
http://www.mvtec.com/halcon/download/

Revised Image Acquisition Interfaces

MVTec has released the following interface revisions:

* New revision 4.9 / 5.2 of the HALCON 9.0 / 10 / 11 SICK-3D Camera interface which fixes two problems in the measurement configuration.
For more information, see:
http://www.mvtec.com/halcon/download/documentation/image-acquisition-11/hAcqSICK-3DCamera.html

* New revision 4.10 / 5.1 of the HALCON 9.0 / 10 / 11 GigEVision interface which is now based on the latest GenApi release v2.3.1 and fixes a problem with sockets which were not closed properly, and a problem on 32 bit systems which could lead to lost buffers in rare cases. Furthermore, the interface now includes the new version 1.0.6.7 of the underlying HALCON GigE Vision Streaming Filter (Windows only). For more information, see:
http://www.mvtec.com/halcon/download/documentation/image-acquisition-11/hAcqGigEVision.html

* New revision 4.6 / 5.1 of the HALCON 9.0 / 10 / 11 GenICamTL interface which is now based on the latest GenApi release v2.3.1 and fixes a bug with the automatic update of the parameters Width, Height, PayloadSize and AcquisitionMode due to incorrect handling of internal GenApi callbacks. Furthermore, a new HDevelop example program shows the usage of the AreaScan3D sensor from VRmagic. For more information, see:
http://www.mvtec.com/halcon/download/documentation/image-acquisition-11/hAcqGenICamTL.html

* New revision 4.6 / 5.1 of the HALCON 10 / 11 SiliconSoftware interface which has been extended to support also the new 3D Triangulation SmartApplets from Silicon Software. For more information, see:
http://www.mvtec.com/halcon/download/documentation/image-acquisition-11/hAcqSiliconSoftware.html

* New revision 4.2 / 5.1 of the HALCON 9.0 / 10 / 11 File (VirtualFG) interface which fixes a bug in case of reading TIFF files with an alpha channel. For more information, see:
http://www.mvtec.com/halcon/download/documentation/image-acquisition-11/hAcqFile.html

* New revision 4.3 / 5.1 of the HALCON 10/11 DirectFile interface which includes an enhanced DLL registration process in case the interface is not already registered correctly. For more information, see:
http://www.mvtec.com/halcon/download/documentation/image-acquisition-11/hAcqDirectShow.html

* New revision 4.3 / 5.1 of the HALCON 10/11 DirectShow interface which enhances the device enumeration to enable the use of multiple cameras with the same name, allows to choose different formats/resolutions for more cameras, and enhances setting of the parameters for such cameras. Furthermore, the interface includes an improved DLL registration process in case it is not already registered correctly and contains various bug fixes. For more information, see:
http://www.mvtec.com/halcon/download/documentation/image-acquisition-11/hAcqDirectFile.html

* New revision 4.7 / 5.2 of the HALCON 9.0 / 10 / 11 GenICamTL interface which fixes a bug that leads to a crash while opening some devices. For more information, see:
http://www.mvtec.com/halcon/download/documentation/image-acquisition-11/hAcqGenICamTL.html