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Products and Services: Spherical Vision Products: Ladybug®3

Point Grey Research's Spherical Vision camera systems are provided as complete hardware and software packages. Customers can access and control their Ladybug2 Spherical Vision system with the Ladybug SDK.

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Ladybug3 (1394b)
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The high resolution Ladybug®3 spherical digital video camera system has six 2 MP cameras that enable the system to collect video from more than 80% of the full sphere, and an IEEE-1394b (FireWire) interface with locking screw connection that allows JPEG-compressed 12MP resolution images to be streamed to disk at 15fps. The Ladybug3 is an ideal solution for applications that require very high resolution, a weather-resistant case, direct FireWire connection, or the ability to synchronize to external devices such as an external trigger or light source. Contact us for a free copy of the Ladybug3 Demo DVD.

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Benefits of IEEE-1394b (FireWire S800)

Sensor: Six 1/1/8" 2MP Sony CCDs, Color
Resolution: 12 megapixels using six 1600x1200 CCDs
Frame Rates: 15FPS at full resolution
Interface: 800Mb/sec 1394b interface with locking connector
Compression: Embedded JPEG image compression
Calibration: Provides high quality spherical image stitching
Mechanics: Single unit construction, water resistant
Download Ladybug product brochure  •   View sample images and video

Additional Features and Specifications

Imaging Sensor
  • 6 SONY ICX274AQ 1/1.8" 1600x1200 progressive scan CCDs
  • Five CCDs are positioned in a horizontal ring and one points straight up
Data Output
  • 6.5 FPS Full Frame Uncompressed
  • 15 FPS Full Frame Compressed
  • 25 FPS Vertical Binned Compressed
JPEG Comression
  • JPEG compression engine allows user to trade-off image quality for frame rate
  • Compression allows data transfer rates to local hard drive of up to 15FPS

Ladybug3 mounted on the car used to take sample images

Ladybug3 mobile system with laptop mounted in car

Ladybug3 with suction cup mounting system

Model and Part Numbers

To be determined.

Development Kit Contents

The following items are included in the Laydbug3 Development Accessory Kit DEVKIT-01-0004:

  • FWB-PCIE-01: single bus 1394b PCI Express card
  • ACC-01-2017: 10 meter 1394b cable
  • FWB-EC-2PORT: 1394b ExpressCard for notebooks / laptops
  • ACC-01-9003: power supply for ExpressCard
  • ACC-01-3005: 4.5 meter GPIO wiring harness
  • Desktop mount
  • Tripod mounting adapter
  • Ladybug3 Getting Started Manual
  • Ladybug SDK (C/C++ API and device drivers) CD

Recommended System Configuration

  • Intel Pentium® 4 3.6+ GHz or compatible processor
  • 2 gigabytes (GB) of RAM
  • NVIDIA GeForce6 video card with 128MB RAM or more
  • 64-bit PCI or PCI-X slot for the IEEE-1394b PCI card
  • Windows XP Service Pack 1 (not compatible with 64-bit operating systems)
  • Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 or Visual Studio 2005 to compile and run example code
  • SCSI RAID array to store streaming image data

Emissions and RoHS Compliance

FCC / CE Compliance

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense.

You are cautioned that any changes or modifications not expressly approved in this manual could void your authority to operate this equipment.

RoHS / WEEE Compliance

This product is RoHS and WEEE compliant.

For additional information on RoHS and WEEE, click here.


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