Tsuneo SAKUMA, Leimac ltd.

Standardization activities are one of the most important missions of JIIA. It is promoted mainly by the Standardization Committee. Standardization activities are establishing the technical specifications that can become industry standards and disseminating its standardized specifications to the machine vision industry.
JIIA are also actively involved in IVSM (International Vision Standards Meeting) to promote effective activities. In order to keep up with new trends such as Industrie 4.0 and OPC-UA, we are also working on new standardizing activities in cooperation with other industry groups.
The Standardization Committee organizes the Working Groups for each technical field. Working Groups organize the Task Force to achieve the effective activities. Each Working Group is composed of specialists with specialized knowledge, and discussing various technical issues.
In addition, a standardization committee meeting is held regularly in order to achieve effective promotion of standardization activities.

Group Chair：Masahito WATANABE, Adimec Electronic Imaging K.K

CoaXPress® is intended technically to transmit digital signals over a coaxial cable. This technology using only one coaxial cable for both an industrial camera and a frame grabber allows to transmit data up to 12.5Gbps and to control a camera simultaneously. CoaXPress over fiber Protocol option realizes higher speed and long distance transmission using standard optical fiber internet technology.
This Committee serves direct activities to draft technical specifications and documentations for standardization of CoaXPress®, manages the electric conformance test and interoperability test to approve the specification, and drives global expansion and growth for the specification and qualified products through promotion.

Group Chair : Miho Akahide, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

In accordance with the trend of IIoT and Industrie 4.0, JIIA and G3 promote the standardization of Embedded Vision. In 2018, a new standard initiative “emVision” hosted by EMVA has started to develop Embedded Vision Interface Standard.
This working group promote “SLVS-EC (Scalable Low Voltage Signaling with Embedded Clock)” Standard. SLVS-EC is an interface between image sensors and processors and one of the important element of emVision. We have released SLVS-EC standard Version 2.0, the data rate is up to 5Gbps/lane.
JIIA will take an active role in emVision and share the latest status of Embedded Vision with this working group and appeal to G3.

(maintained by Standardization Committee)

There are huge demands for high speed interfaces even in the machine vision industry.
Recently, CMOS Image Sensor devices are becoming major in global markets. Global Coordination of Machine Vision Standardization between AIA, EMVA and JIIA helped to propose new specifications for high speed interfaces such as CoaXPress® (CXP) and Camera Link HS™ (CLHS).
However we have sometimes seen problem with the boundary of speed due to physically a metallic cable.
We believe in the strong demand for optical transmissions in the near future. The Optical Transmission Media Working Group has started to study potential new requirements to implement smaller size cameras and to take into robust systems for user-friendliness, 4 types of the Optical Transmission Media have been proposed to AIA and EMVA by JIIA.
2 types already have been released as the JIIA standard officially.
The development for 2 types of others were stopped.
After that, we received a new proposal. This is now on the way to a goal.

(maintained by Standardization Committee)

Camera Link® is the first digital interface standard designed for machine vision applications and is highly populated. The standard is maintained and administered by AIA. JIIA has actively contributed to improve this standard.
JIIA-CLWG added Power over Camera Link (PoCL®) Technology and Power over Camera Link – Lite (PoCL-Lite™) Technology which offers a smaller form factor for low-cost solutions in the specifications.
JIIA-CLWG received a report regarding HDR/SDR connector problem from AIA CL member at the IVSM in 2014 fall. They revised the CL standard to solve this problem in version 2.1.
And, in addition to this, recently, high speed CL on FPGA cameras increase in the market. But present Standard is not enough to support for high speed camera.
AIA CL technical committee is considering version up for this issue as the ver3.0.
In this case, there are 2 big changes. One is conformity to GenICam standard.
The other is Inplementation of the plug Festa. However, this ver3.0 is not made up finally. JIIA-CLWG watch the proceedings carefully.

(maintained by Standardization Committee)

“GigE Vision®” is a machine vision standard using Gigabit Ethernet.
It can easily create long distance transmission of 100m, low cost system by using PC standard interface, and multi-camera system.
Standardization is managed by AIA and its activities are achieved as an international effort as G3.
This Working Group are disseminating the standardized specification in cooperation with the GenICam working group.

Group Chair : Hiroki NAGAO, NEC Platforms, Ltd.

USB3 Vision™ is the machine vision standard using USB 3.0 interface.
USB3 Vision takes advantage of the high data transfer rate of 5 Gbps and the cost effective system on PC standard interface.
The activity for standardization is going on worldwide, then this WG works to introduce technical information and promote the standard.
The Type-C connector standard with a locking mechanism is also a result. Currently, the latest USB standard is “USB4”, and the transfer speed reaches up to 40 Gbps with the Gen3 x 2 specification.
The USB3 Vision standard is also being considered to support the latest standards in order to support higher resolution / higher frame rates of image sensors.

Group Chair : Susumu NAKAGAWA, Hirose Electric Co., LTD.

The use of MV systems will increase as the automation of factories and the use of robots advances further with “Industry 4” and “MiC2025”.
As a result, there are concerns that there will be many quality problems that have not been seen so far. This could result in obstruction of the development of the MV industry.
As a preventive measure, the Connectors and Cables Certification Committee has established a certification system for connectors and cables that meet the MV standards, and is promoting activities to prevent quality problems in the market, both domestic and overseas.

Group Chair : Hiroshi TOTSUKA, LeImac Ltd.

In 2014, Germany proposed Industrie 4.0. Since then, Manufacturing site has been a smart factory. AI became popular in the process of inspecting products. As a result, Automation has advanced to a high degree. So, Image Processing was re-recognized as a necessary item.
This activity is to create an environment where Vision System can be seamlessly connected to MECHATRLINK. MECHATROLINK is a field network used for Motion Systems. This activity is a collaboration with MECHATRLINK MEMBERS ASSOCIATION (MMA).
http://www.mechatrolink.org/en/index.html
We are working on standardization to solve each other's challenges. The Motion field is the basis of systems in the evolving manufacturing environment. We will consider that the Vision System can function effectively in the Motion field. The next step is to create new value.
Please send your opinions and requests to our activities.

Group Chair : Junji KISHI, Toshiba Teli Corporation

“IIDC2” is a standard that provides a camera control method which is independent of the camera models or interface types.
IIDC2 is designed on the simplicity and extensibility with considering the affinity of GenICam. Standardizing IIDC2 is promoted and led by JIIA. By using IIDC2, designing and manufacturing costs can be reduced by sharing design assets, and the range of product choices can be expanded.
We are expanding the standard so that it becomes easier to use.

(maintained by the Standardization Committee)

“GenICam” is a standard that defines common programming interface for camera control.
It provides a common programming environment which are independent of the camera models or interface types.
GenICam is used for many existing camera interfaces such as GigE Vision, USB3 Vision and CoaXPress.
Many functions are constantly being added, and also for control of peripheral devices such as lighting equipment. And adopting the lens control have started.
This Working Group are disseminating the standardized specification in cooperation with GigE Vision working group, USB3 Vision working group, and the Lighting working group and the Lens working group, too.

Group Chair : Hiroshi TOTSUKA, Leimac Ltd.

The Lighting Working Group engage in standardization, promotion, and dissemination activities related to lighting for industrial imaging system through development of standards, guidelines and technical documentation about lighting design methodologies, lighting product performance measurement and specific notation required for lighting system design.
In addition to participating in GenICam lighting control activities for deliberation of expansion of GenICam's SFNC lighting features. we promote the dynamic display of GenICam compatible lighting equipment in various exhibitions.

Group Chair ： Yutaka YAMAGUCHI, Toshiba Teli Corporation

The Lens Working Group is promoting standardization of Lenses for Machine Vision Camera, Optical Systems, and peripheral technologies.
In recent years, by examining and proposing the optical technology required for Area Sensors and Line Sensors, which are becoming larger and larger in size, users can take advantage of the optical performance and have better optical technology in terms of robustness and usability.
We are standardizing the specifications, and so far we have established six standards such as “NF mount”, “NF-J mount”, “TFL / TFL-II mount”, and “S mount”, and “each image size classification”.
Also, various technical reports such as “Recommended Mechanical Interfaces Applied for Each Image Size Classification”, and “Recommended Optical Specifications of lenses for High Resolution Cameras with Small Pixel Size” are available.
In addition, we will participate in OOCI (Open Optics Camera Interface) Working Group by EMVA to study lens function control (Focus, Aperture, and PTZ) by GenICam, and collaborate with CMVU Lens working Group to standardize lens mounts for large format sensors.
The JIIA Lens Working Group is promoting standardization activities while paying close attention to these overseas trends.

(maintained by Standardization Committee)

Along with the transition from analog to digital for industrial cameras and peripheral devices, this working group has promoted standardization within the industry by creating performance specification indications, definitions of terms, and indicators for performance measurement methods.
And this working group are promoting the standard EMVA1288, which is standardized by EMVA and defines the measurement and describing methods for sensor and camera performance.

Group Chair : Yuzo Hisatake, National University Corporation Shizuoka University

In collaboration with the Japanese national committee for standardization of next-generation high-color-fidelity imaging-system of Shizuoka University, Our sub-working group (Standardization of high-fidelity color imaging system sub working group: HFCS-SWG) has been working on establishing a standard for high fidelity color reproduction systems that reproduce colors in a colorimetric manner (equalize XYZ3 stimulus values).
This standard is expected to be used in various fields where faithful color reproduction is required, such as factory quality inspection, medical fields, electronic commerce (mail order) and etc.. We also promote the importance of standardization on high-color-fidelity imaging system through exhibitions and seminars to raise awareness of diverse users. Furthermore, we will work on not only for a JIIA standard but also for de-jure standards (International Standards such as ISO and/or IEC) with the aim of spreading such faithful color reproduction technology all over the world.