Toshiba Teli Corporation Takes Home 2024 VISION Award

Toshiba Teli Corporation has won the 2024 VISION award. The company earned the title, presented at VISION 2024 in Stuttgart, Germany, for its OneShotBRDF integrated surface flaw detection scope technology.

Toshiba Teli earned the VISION Award 2024 for its OneShotBRDF integrated surface flaw detection scope technology. Courtesy of Photonics Media via Messe Stuttgart.

The developer of CMOS and CCD cameras for machine vision and industrial automation, inspection, measurement, robotics, 3D, pick and place, automated optical inspection, and medical imaging applications takes home a grand prize of €3000. Toshiba Teli was among five finalists, selected from a pool of over 60 applications that had been shortlisted for the award.

Toshiba Teli’s OneShotBRDF technology is integrated with the company’s SFD240305A Surface Flaw Detection Scope, which enables the detection of surface flaws on glossy and flat materials. The solution uses a multiwavelength coaxial aperture filter via scattered light discrimination that enables high-speed inspection, along with a high-resolution USB camera that can be connected to a PC.

Shinichi Itokawa, board member, chief technology executive, and director of machine vision camera at Toshiba Teli, said that the company was motivated to develop the SFD240305A using its OneShotBRDF technology after receiving inspection requests from its customers. “There were many cases where even scratches that experienced technicians could see with the naked eye were not detected by conventional image processing systems," Itokawa said.

Toshiba Teli sales team member Yusuke Kawachi holding up the 2024 VISION award. Courtesy of Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH & Co. KG.

According to Chris Yates, a partner at VISION VENTURES and one of the jury members of this year’s contest, Toshiba Teli’s solution additionally offers the potential for use in newer applications, such as the evaluation of surface roughness in materials like paints and coatings. This function was evaluated during the judging process, Yates said.

The finalists gathered Oct. 9 to present their innovations in a one-hour Industrial Vision Days session. AiRob Vision Systems Sp. z oo, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Murrelektronik GmbH, PxE Holographic Imaging, and Toshiba Teli each presented its respective technologies in front of an audience and panel of expert jurors. Past VISION Award winners include Kitov.ai, for its CAD2SCAN software solution in 2022; Prophesee, for its metavision technology in 2021; Photoneo, for its PhoXi 3D camera in 2018; and Machine Vision Lighting Inc., for its variable irradiation solid angle (VISA)-method lighting in 2016.