Live Tiling & Live EDF:

Image-Pro Plus 7.0 offers the optional Live Tiling and Live Extended Depth of Field (EDF) module, which makes it easy to acquire large, tiled images and beautifully focused images – live – without an automated stage or focus drive. Minimizing the number of steps required to tile images or created focused images, Live Tiling and Live EDF allows you to acquire the images you need, within minutes.

Live Tiling :

Live Tiling lets you expand the field of your captured image, using a manual X-Y stage. This tool makes it easy for you to tile and stitch adjacent fields – live – without an automated stage. Simply move your stage and watch the image field of view grow until you have covered your entire specimen. All you need is a microscope, manual X-Y stage and a camera with Image-Pro drivers.

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Live Tiling Details:
• No motor stage or focus drive needed
• Works with any Image-Pro Color or Mono camera/driver
• Obtains a much higher resolution image than using a low mag objective

System Requirements:

Operating System	Computer	RAM	Storage
Windows® XP Pro	750 MHz or better	1 GB RAM*	20 GB**
Windows® Vista Business and Ultimate (32 and 64 bit)***	2.1 GHz	2 GB RAM*	40 GB**

*2GB RAM is recommended on all operating systems. 4GB is best on Vista operating systems.

**Suggested storage size for large image files generated by advanced cameras.

*** Image-Pro Plus is a 32-bit application. It will run on 64-bit machines.

Image-Pro Plus 7.0 File Formats

Read Support: TIFF, IPW, JPEG, JPEG 2000, EXIF JPEG, Flat (binary), GEL, TGA, BMP, PhotoCD, HDF, QED, FITS, AVI, RAW and SEQ files.
Stack & Confocal Read Support: SEQ (Image-Pro and StreamPix), STK (MetaMorph), PIC (Bio-Rad Confocal), LSM & ZVI (Zeiss), DEB and AVZ (AutoQuant Stack), LEI and LIF (Leica), DM3 (Gatan), DV (DeltaVision), and Fluoview 1000 (Olympus) files.
Write Support: TIFF, IPW, IPS, JPEG, JPEG 2000, Flat, TGA, BMP, FITS, EPS, AVI and SEQ files.
Support for 24-, 36-, and 48-bit color; 8-, 12-, and 16-bit grayscale as well as 32-bit floating point images.

Live EDF

Live EDF allows you to capture a fully-focused image for specimens whose thickness exceeds the microscope depth of field. Available for any manual microscope, Live EDF solves the depth of field issues that often plague Entomologist, Botanists, and Parts and Material manufacturers.

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Live EDF Details:

No motor stage or focus drive needed
Works with any Image-Pro Color or Mono camera/driver
Users need not be concerned about;
– Specimen Thickness
– Focus direction or evenness
– Starting or ending focus point
– Z thickness
– # of Z planes required
– Camera/Stage orientation
– Stereomicroscope image shift
Prevents damage caused by specimen flattening
Works in Fluorescence applications
Live EDF is not designed to:
– Retain Z axis information
– Produce a 3D image

Live Tiling and Live EDF is only available with Image-Pro Plus 7.0 products

Click here to see an example of Live EDF