Canon High Sensitivity and Visibility Network Video Surveillance

The company is developing a highly sensitive network video surveillance camera that provides a high degree of visibility, even for long-distance subject monitoring at night.

The new network camera Canon It is equipped with a very bright high magnification objective, capable of recording color images over long distances, incluso por la noche, which will allow you to see subjects that would not be seen well with the human eye

Due to increased security concerns, There has been a growing need for more advanced surveillance systems, which has caused a greater demand for high-performance network video surveillance cameras, capable of clearly recording visual data, both at night and during the day, for applications such as urban surveillance and monitoring of critical infrastructure and facilities.

For this reason, Canon is developing a compact, highly sensitive network video surveillance camera, whose commercialization is planned for 2016, that will allow distant subjects to be seen clearly in color, even in conditions where it is difficult for the human eye.

Featuring a wide range of optical technologies that Canon has developed over many years, This camera currently in the development phase will have a very bright super telephoto zoom lens, with a focal length of more than 600 mm (equivalente en película de 35 mm), with a bright f/2.4 aperture, which will allow a large amount of light to enter through the lens.

The new lens incorporates aspherical and UD lenses (ultra baja dispersión), that suppress the incidence of chromatic aberrations (produced as the lens aperture size increases) and facilitate the design of a compact lens.

The combination of a large aperture lens with a high sensitivity sensor and a high performance image processor will allow color recognition of a person's face at a distance of 100 metros, even in dark environments, with lighting of only 0,08 lux, which is roughly equivalent to moonlight illumination. Until now, Conventional night surveillance has only been possible with the help of infrared illumination or using night mode, which only allows images to be captured in black and white.

By combining an electric sweep and tilt function, which controls the orientation of the camera with the super telephoto zoom lens, This new network video surveillance camera will facilitate the monitoring of natural disaster areas, like rivers or bays; urban surveillance from the roofs of buildings and to identify car license plates on the roads, etc.