With increasing power of embedded processors, smart or intelligent camera systems become a reasonable alternative to PC-based imaging systems in various fields of application.

CANCam is a very powerful intelligent camera-system for advanced image processing independent  from a host-PC. nevertheless runing full Linux operating system to enable powerful application like OpenCV or HALCON Embedded.

CANCam exists in two variants:

• The original CANCam, which focus is on very small dimensions.
• CANCam-BF, which uses newest DSP technology to enhance calculation power.

For CANCam-BF there exist many input adapters to support analog or CameraLink cameras, but also sources which provide video in VGA or DVI format.