The Universal Imaging System from HORIBA is a laboratory 29-megapixel full spectrum imaging camera package available for fingerprint work. A complete digital imaging system offers image enhancement, image capture, and image comparison.
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Features
Use and Benefits
The Universal Imaging System is built around the SceneScope RUVIS UHD camera and is designed for fingerprint and palmprint detection, enhancement, and comparison throughout the Full Spectrum.
The system comes with a computer, 29 MP Ultra High-Definition CCD Camera, forensic light source, and an Image Enhancement or Comparison Software Suite that features a new powerful tool for the tracking of enhancements, capture, minutiae extraction, compressed and encrypted storage, and side by side comparison and charting.
UIS - Universal Imaging System
Full Spectrum imaging capability in the Shortwave UV (RUVIS), Longwave UV, Visible, and Infrared. Video Credit: Horiba
Left: Fingerprint on greeting card captured in Visible light. Right: Same Sample processed with fluorescent powder, illuminated with 535 nm and captured with 600 nm bandpass camera filter on the SceneScope RUVIS UHD Camera. Image Credit: Horiba
Same Image file Above Right “Zoomed In”; enlarged 400% to show exquisite detail. Image Credit: Horiba
Examples
The Color images displayed below were not captured with the Universal Imaging System. They were captured with the help of a generic digital camera and are offered to demonstrate what would be viewed with the human eye.
All of the available Black and White fingerprint images were captured with the Universal Imaging System using the included capture software and “Zoomed In” with the help of the included ImaQuest Fingerprint Enhancement Software.
Left: Basic Yellow BY40 print illuminated and captured in Visible light by a generic digital camera (what the human eye would see). Right: Same Sample illuminated at 445 nm and captured with the SceneScope RUVIS UHD using a BP500 camera filter. Image Credit: Horiba Scientific
Left: Fluorescent powdered print; illuminated at 475 nm and captured using a LP570 camera filter. Right: Same Image on Left “Zoomed In”. Image Credit: Horiba
Left: Print Glow™ print illuminated and captured in Visible light by a generic digital camera (what the human eye would see). Right: Same Sample illuminated at 515 nm and captured with the SceneScope RUVIS UHD using a LP570 camera filter. Image Credit: Horiba Scientific
Left: 1,2 Indanedione palm print; illuminated at 535nm and captured using a BP600 camera filter. Right: Same Image on Left “Zoomed In”. Image Credit: Horiba
Left: Black powder print illuminated and captured in Visible light by a generic digital camera (what the human eye would see). Right: Same Sample illuminated at 630 nm and captured with the SceneScope RUVIS UHD using a LP715 nm camera filter. Image Credit: Horiba
Left: Black powder print lluminated and captured in Visible light by a generic digital camera (what the human eye would see). Right: Same Sample illuminated at 715 nm and captured with the SceneScope RUVIS UHD using a LP830 nm camera filter. Image Credit: Horiba
Includes ImaQuest
ImaQuest is an enhancement and comparison suite that eliminates fluorescent backgrounds, climates periodic backgrounds with FFT, and features an extensive range of digital filters for processing prints.
ImaQuest has the potential to track all changes that are automatically made to the image and features a special format that records the original image and all mathematical treatments that have been applied to the image, encrypts the data, and further restricts access via multiple user accounts and passwords.
IdentQuest is Part of ImaQuest
IdentQuest is known to be the digital comparator component of ImaQuest. It features automated extraction and a manual edition of minutiae points. Any two prints can be loaded, scanned, or acquired and viewed side by side. Select either automated comparison, or do it manually.
Once compared and marked, the pair can be transferred to a built-in document creator. Templates for individual departments can also be created, saved, and reused. Printouts for court or case jackets can be printed on any installed printer. Work can also be saved as images for use in presentations.
The Universal Imaging System is a complete system for the detection, optical enhancement, capture, digital enhancement, and output of fingerprint and palmprint images. It can also be used to image of other varieties of evidence.
UIS includes the computer hardware, Full Frame CCD camera, 16MP Ultra High Resolution, filters and lenses for optical enhancements, SPEX Forensics FOCUS FLS, and the ImaQuest software suite for digital enhancements.
Included Filter Set to allow visualization from 254 nm to 1000 nm. Image Credit: Horiba
Specifications
Safety First
All SceneScope RUVIS UHD Systems consist of eye and skin protection devices against UV radiations. All RUVIS devices include lamps that discharge high-intensity shortwave ultraviolet.
Being exposed to such wavelengths of radiation, including reflected or diffused, could lead to serious, and sometimes irreversible, skin and eye injuries. It is not advised to aim the shortwave UV lamp at anyone, and users are warned never to look directly into the shortwave UV lamp. It is necessary to wear appropriate eye and skin protection while using any RUVIS device.
The system has been manufactured under ISO 9001 standards.
As with any alternate light source, it is necessary to wear eye and skin protection. Please illuminate in a responsible manner.
Camera Specifications
- Resolution: 29 million pixels
- Data Transmission Rate: 3 User Selectable Operating Modes
- Capture: 1.7 fps
- Search: 10 fps
- Fine Focus: 11 fps
- Spectral Sensitivity: 250 nm to 1100 nm
- Aspect Ratio: 3:2
- Integration time: 1 millisecond to 16 seconds
- Data Transfer: Gigabit Ethernet
Description
A complete system inclusive of a 29 MP CCD Camera, Image Enhancement or Comparison Software Suite, and Computer.
The system consists of everything contained in the SceneScope RUVIS UHD Camera System.
Plus: Both Optical and Digital Enhancement abilities with High Resolution, High Dynamic Range image capture across the complete spectrum
System Includes
- Black and White High Resolution, High Speed, 29-megapixel Ultra High Definition RUVIS camera capable of 1000 ppi resolution over an area of 6.6″ by 4.4″, Full Frame, complete Spectrum acquisition with potential to capture from 250 to 1100 nm.
- Copy Stand with column and 18″ × 20″ base with arm and clamp system
- 365 nm BandPass UV Filter with rapid-release magnetic mount
- 78 mm UV Quartz Lens with a Magnetic Filter Holder
- Dual 254 nm or 365 nm lamp and power supply
- Software: SPEX Forensics Capture software, ImaQuest Digital Enhancement Software
- 254 nm BandPass UV Filter with rapid-release magnetic mount
- UV full-face protection comes with headgear
- UV protection goggles are available
Included Filters
- 18 Various Band Pass and Long Pass filters
- All filters consist of specialized magnetic quick-release attachments
- BP: 254 nm, 365 nm, 450 nm, 550 nm, 600 nm
- LP: 530 nm, 550 nm, 570 nm, 590 nm, 610 nm, 630 nm, 665 nm, 695 nm, 715 nm, 780 nm, 830 nm, 850 nm, 1000 nm
Included PC (Minimum Specifications)
- PC with Intel i7–3.4 GHz Processor
- 256 Gb SSD
- 8 Gb RAM
- 27″ Monitor
- 1 Tb HDD
Optional PC Accessories (Available Upon Request)
- Photo Quality Dye Sublimation Printer
- Flatbed Scanner
- Laser Printer
Included Forensic Light Source
- FOCUS-6F LED Kit with 6 wavelengths including UV390 nm, 470 nm, 495 nm, 530 nm, 620 nm, and WHITE (Configurable with users’ choice of Forensic Light Source, extra charges might be applicable)
Included Software
- ImaQuest Fingerprint Enhancement and Comparison Software featuring; Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), Stitching, Background Subtraction, Brightness and Contrast, Compressed Storage, Tracking History, Side-By-Side Comparison Menu, Minutiae Extraction, Charting, and Documentation creation.
- Capture software that has been specially developed for UIS cameras offering rapid, easy-to-use, user-defined presets for Screening, Focusing, and Capturing high-resolution images.
- WSQ Forensic Compression Module combined in ImaQuest (FBI 12:1 certified compression, user adjusted other compression rates available)