Automated Optical Inspection

Placement of a light source behind an object to highlight its shape, useful to hide surface details and emphasize the outline of an object.

Ball-Grid Array - a type of surface-mount packaging used for integrated circuits.

Contrast Transfer Function.

Distance from the mounting flange (the "metal ring" in rear part of the lens) to the camera detector plane.

The ratio of the lens focal length to the diameter of the entrance pupil.

Light Emitting Diode.

Also called Artificial Vision, it is a wide-ranging term referring to the applications of computer vision to industry and manufacturing.

The science of measurement: a key application of many machine vision technologies.

Optical Character Recognition: dedicated software to process images of written text into a computer-understandable format.