Machine vision companies widen their scope.

Since the 1980 there have been sum of two units or even three accepted usages of the mete "machine vision." The Machine Vision Association of the US-based Society of Manufacturing Engineers naturally chose to define it rather narrowly in bounds of automated interpretation of images in the manufacturing industry. The Automated Imaging Association has broadly kept to this definition in compilation of its annual World Market report upon the vision industry, and the UK Industrial Vision Association, while being careful not to explicitly define the Association's purpose when it was founded, included the word "industrial" in order to differentiate its tendency from the ...