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HALCON Runs on Microsoft Windows 7

The current version 9.0.1 of the machine vision software HALCON by MVTec runs on the new Windows 7 operating system by Microsoft. Regarding tests by MVTec were completely successful.

Microsoft has scheduled its new operating system Windows 7 to go on sale on October 22, 2009. As machine vision software technology leader, MVTec naturally wants to provide HALCON also on Windows 7. Thus, MVTec’s research & development department has thoroughly and successfully tested HALCON on the new Windows 7 platform. “Therefore, we are sure that the current HALCON version 9.0.1 runs on Windows 7 without any problems”, says Christoph Zierl, MVTec’s product manager.

Moreover, the all-purpose HALCON image acquisition interfaces were successfully tested under Windows 7. That particularly includes interfaces to all cameras which are compliant to the industrial standards GigE Vision and IIDC 1394.

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About MVTec MVTec is a leading manufacturer of standard software for machine vision. MVTec products are used in all demanding areas of imaging: Semi- conductor industry, web inspection, quality control and inspection applications in general, medicine, and surveillance. MVTec has more than 30 established distributors, located throughout North- and South- America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. In addition, MVTec, LLC works out of Boston, MA (USA), to better attend the North-American market since 2007. For more information refer to www.mvtec.com

About HALCON HALCON is the comprehensive standard software library with the IDE for machine vision. HALCON provides an outstanding performance for blob analysis, morphology, pattern matching, measuring, 3D object recognition, and binocular stereo vision, to name just a few. HALCON offers more than 1300 operators and provides interfaces to hundreds of industrial image acquisition devices. Furthermore, HALCON is platform- independent and compatible to Windows, Linux, and Solaris. More information: www.halcon.com

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