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Enhance Your Optical System Development with ImSym
- Visualize images with precise, quantitative data
- Streamline your development process
- Deliver your next great imaging product to market faster
- Provides an end-to-end model of an imaging system, including lenses, sensors, and image and signal processors (ISPs) before manufacturing
- Helps design teams collaborate more efficiently
- Ensures confidence that products will work right when built
- Automate ImSym processes with a Python interface
- Customize ISP capabilities using Python scripted routines
Key Features
Accelerates design cycles by up to 60x
Delivers accurate results powered by industry-proven CODE V and LightTools
Provides an intuitive, integrated, collaborative workflow for an exceptional user experience
Comprehensive Simulations with Accurate, Quantitative Results
ImSym integrates multiple features to simulate an imaging system object using an input graphics file. ImSym’s accuracy is powered by CODE V and LightTools, the most trusted imaging and illumination optics design solutions in the industry.
- Models geometric, aberration, and diffraction effects
- Simulates scene stray light and additive stray light sources
- Models detector effects; the sensor includes dimensions, pixel characteristics, and a sophisticated noise modeling process
- Processes radiometrically accurate detected images with custom or built-in image and signal processing
- Generates a series of simulated images at each step along the pipeline
- Supports a Python programming language interface to automate ImSym processes and customize ISP capabilities
Transforming How Product Design Teams Work
This innovative simulation platform helps design teams collaborate more effectively and bring their cutting-edge imaging products to market faster.
"We wanted to help optical system design teams evaluate image quality early on and provide a platform that opens up a whole new market."
-Blake Crowther, ImSym Technical Product Management, Sr Director
Supporting Innovation Across Industries
ImSym’s capabilities can be used to elevate projects for a wide spectrum of imaging applications, such as:
- Mobile cameras
- Handheld cameras
- Medical imaging
- Automotive ADAS cameras
- Aerospace imaging systems
- Defense imaging systems
- AR/VR systems
- Lithography systems
- Machine vision and surveillance cameras
The ImSym Advantage
Shifting Product Development from Hardware to Software Design
ImSym is a unique product with a focus on speed and robustness, and it introduces compelling advantages that set it apart from all other imaging design solutions:
- Integrated Optical Modeling Platform:
- Intuitive, user-friendly interface
- Guides you through the design and analysis process
- Comprehensive Sensor Model:
- Includes radiometric calibration
- Stray Light Scanner Tool:
- Understand the impact of unwanted light in your system
- Component Impact Analysis:
- Identify the impact of different system components on image performance
- End-to-End Communication Platform:
- Supports team communication between various engineering domain experts
- Reduce Development Time and Costs:
- Shift most of the product development from hardware to software design
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Resources
Blog
Introducing ImSym: Revolutionizing Optical Imaging System Design
Discover how ImSym addresses the complexities of optical imaging system design and why it should be an essential tool in your engineering toolkit.
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Video
Optics on the go! Simulate your mobile camera from lens-to-sensor-to-ISP using ImSym - Imaging System Simulator
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