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SubC Imaging

Image: SubC Imaging

SubC Imaging, located in Newfound- High Level Speci? cations.ons.

land and Labrador, Canada, creates LiquidOptics water-cor--cor- some of the most advanced underwater rected imaging: imaging systems in the world, including • Video Transmission modelsmodels dium, dium, * HDE: HD over Ethernet, SD ernet, SD state-of-the-art cameras, lights, lasers involv-involv- over and DVR Overlay solutions for media ing stitch-ing stitch- Composite management. Since its founding in 2010 ing the videos ing the videos * HDC: HD over Coax and Ethernetand EthernetSubC has developed an international cli- together, to create together, to create * HDF: HD over Fiber and Ethernetand Ethernetentele in the offshore energy, ocean sci- a 360 spherical view around the ROV. a 360 spherical view around the ROV. cording and 12.3 • Internal 4K UHD recording and 12.3 ences and aerospace and defense sectors

M lti l li t i lt l Multiple clients can simultaneously megapixel digital stills with clients in over 20 countries.

digitally pan, tilt and zoom within the • Hybrid LED strobe/lamp and external la-

SubC focuses on enabling its clients to spherical view.

ser sync direct from camera more easily acquire high quality visual • Dive interval programming (automated data using their platform of choice and

Above: The Ray? n Autono- stills, recording, hibernate) helping them better manage and use that mous Machine Vision System.

• Control via Ethernet, RS232 and RS485 information for improved decision mak- • Live video and image ? le transfer over ing. SubC also currently has two prod-

Ethernet ucts under late stage development and • Built in sensors: accelerometer, gyro, soon to be available for ? eld testing. compass and (optional) depth

The ? rst, the Ray? n Autonomous Ma- • Video, stills and data storage in SubC chine Vision System, is designed for use

Dive Log format on all platforms with special attention

Introducing the • 1TB or optional (2TB or 4TB) of solid paid to the unique requirements of au- state storage for video, stills and data. tonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) which are becoming more widely used

BlueROV2 for underwater inspections, monitoring The second, the VisionSphere Sys- and surveys. Built with this platform in tem, provides a remotely operated ve- mind, the Ray? n has the ability to syn- hicle (ROV) pilot full visual coverage chronize AUV data with camera data of a vehicle’s environment by strate- and is fully programmable to trigger gically mounting cameras with ultra- based on commands or events such as wide (UltraOptics) overlapping ? elds altitude, depth, time, etc. Additional fea- of view (FOV) around the vehicle. The tures under development include image enhanced situational awareness helps mosaic and object recognition. mitigate the risk of collision with subsea

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The automated stitching of bottom assets and the potentially costly repairs

Thrusters mosaics will be done using a combina- that can result. The system can also im- &RQ?JXUDEOH tion of feature mapping and navigation prove ef? ciency with more of the subsea 3RZHUIXO ([SDQGDEOH data (dead reckoning) with the internal environment being captured in a shorter

IMU of the camera and other data (gyro, period of time and also allows for better

Easy to Open Source depth, altimeter) fed in from the system multi-tasking since the pilot can focus

Operate Software over serial or Ethernet. All data will be on ? ying the ROV while the co-pilot

Easy to 5HOLDEOH logged with their respective images and focuses on the inspection. In its current $VVHPEOH along with the World File created for con? guration all camera feeds would be each image used to assist in the image recorded and viewed simultaneously on stitching process. separate separate monitors. SubC has bluerov.com2

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