根据自动成像协会（AIA）要求，机器视觉系统包含所有工业应用和非工业应用，在此系统中，软硬件组合为设备执行基于图像捕获和处理的功能提供了操作指导。
机器视觉有助于可靠并持续地解决复杂的硬度测试任务。
虽然计算机视觉在工业和学术/教育及政府/军事应用中都使用了许多相同的算法和方法，但它们的约束条件是不同的。INNOVATEST硬度计的机器视觉系统集成于自动化硬度测量系统中，包含具有先进算法的光学系统，可用于压痕测量、工作台全景观测和工件识别。
我们使用了分辨率高达1800万像素的高刷新率的相机，具有压痕和工作台空间自动缩放功能。利用高亮度的环形灯技术，LED面板和精密光学滤镜技术，提供*的硬度测量结果。
极低的要求
INNOVATEST大部分硬度计都采用了精密超高分辨率工业相机系统，带LED环形灯或LED面板灯，我们的基础型号如FALCON400和450，采用了柯勒照明原理，该原理已成功应用于金相显微镜领域。
柯勒照明是一种样品照明方法，用于透射和反射光的光学显微技术。
基于柯勒照明原理，生成一个均匀照明光源来保证清晰的照明（早期的卤素灯和如今的LED灯都不能实现清晰的图像照明）。柯勒照明是现代光学显微镜领域主要的照明技术。
它需要额外的比较昂贵的光学元器件，且这些光学元器件或许还未应用于更基础的光学显微镜中。
According to the Automated Imaging Association (AIA), machine vision encompasses all industrial and non-industrial applications in which a combination of hardware and software provide operational guidance to devices in the execution of their functions based on the capture and processing of images.
Machine vision helps solve complex hardness testing tasks reliably and consistently
Though industrial computer vision uses many of the same algorithms and approaches as academic/educational and governmental/military applications of computer vision, constraints are different. INNOVATEST machine vision is an integrated part of our hardness testing automation and combines optical systems with refined algorithms for indent measurement, work stage overview and workpiece recognition.
We apply camera’s with high speed frame rates and of all kind of resolutions up to 18 Megapixels, automatic indent and workspace zooming systems. Ultra Bright ringlight technology, LED panels and sophisticated optical filtering methods to refine and ultimately provide the best possible hardness measurement.
For less demanding requirements
While most of the INNOVATEST hardness testing machines make use of sophisticated ultra-high resolution industrial camera systems, with LED ring light or LED panel lights, our more basic models like the FALCON 400 and 450 make use of a proven concept of a metallurgical microscope with a LED based Köhler illumination.
Köhler illumination is a method of specimen illumination used for transmitted and reflected light (trans- and epi-illuminated) optical microscopy.
Köhler illumination acts to generate an even illumination of the sample and ensures that an image of the illumination source (for example in the early days a halogen lamp and nowadays LED lamp filament is not visible in the resulting image. Köhler illumination is the predominant technique for sample illumination in modern scientific light microscopy.
It requires additional optical elements which are more expensive and may not be present in more basic light microscopes.
