The CVS family of vision sensors includes four color vision sensor solutions, the CVS1 Easy, CVS2, CVS3 and the CVS4 – the industry’s first true optical character recognition (OCR) sensor. These new sensors offer an affordable solution for vision applications that would otherwise require more complicated vision systems.

These color-based vision sensors are ideal for a variety of applications, including measuring area of a learned color, presence/absence detection, identifying products based on color and color sorting.

• The CVS1 Easy allows the user to detect and distinguish between up to 8 customer- selected colors. The teaching procedure is simple, making it very customer friendly. The CVS1 Easy has very fast response times, monitoring larger areas from longer ranges than standard color sensors.

• The CVS2 extends the capability of the CVS1 Easy. The CVS2 allows the user to detect and sort between 15 customer-defined colors. With the RS232 interface, the CVS2 can be used to sort between all colors stored in the sensor as well as use a PC to upload and download settings to the sensor.

• The CVS3 is an affordable solution for shape checking applications. The CVS3 searches the field of view for the shape or contour (Contour Vision Sensor) that the user teaches, such as verifying the logo is printed in the correct position on a label.

• The CVS4 is the first true OCR sensor. It provides detection and verification of date codes and lot codes (serial codes) using a sensor. The sensor can read up to 60 characters on 6 lines, making it very flexible.

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