Theia Technologies’ IQ Lens™ System Honored with VSD Innovator Award
Wilsonville, OR – May 12th 2025
Theia Technologies announced today that its IQ Lens™ System was recognized among the best by the 2025 VSD Innovators Awards. Votes placed by the engineering community recognized Theia Technologies as a Bronze in the Lighting, Lenses, and Optics category.
“Theia is thrilled to be honored once again for innovation in lens design for our new IQ Lens™ System. Theia’s IQ Lens™ System brings together a motorized lens, motor control board, calibration data, and software with graphical user interface (GUI) to form an intelligent, modular, highly configurable system. We are excited to share this powerful lens technology with the automation and robotics communities,” said Jeff Gohman, president of Theia Technologies.
The motorized lenses offer 300lp/mm resolution performance in both visible and NIR light. The lenses offer motorized zoom and focus, with optional integrated NIR filters and photo-interrupter motor stops.
Theia’s IQ Lens™ System includes a python-based SDK and intuitive GUI to translate engineering units into motor steps, reducing development effort and cost, speeding time to market. The software and GUI are available when using the USB interface with the Motor Control Board.
Theia’s MCR IQ™ Motor Control Board command interface support USB, UART or I2C protocols. Calibration data and software applications are available including a royalty free license with IQ Lens™ and MCR IQ™ purchase.
The calibration data provides intelligence to optimize image quality and ease system setup including focus/zoom curve, geometrical distortion, relative illumination, and more. This high-performance system enhances AI applications like ANPR and OCR.
Theia’s IQ Lens™ System software application and intuitive graphical user interface saves the user considerable development effort and cost, speeding time to market. Fast. Intelligent. Cost effective. Just plain Smart!
The 2025 VSD Innovators Awards celebrates outstanding innovation in machine vision for the engineering industry. Every year we showcase and reward companies, designers, and innovators who have contributed to the advancement of technology through their creative and impactful designs. 2025 VSD Innovators Award winners are chosen by the qualified judging panel chosen by the editorial staff at Vision Systems Design.
About Theia Theia Technologies provides high quality 4K and megapixel lenses for machine vision, intelligent traffic systems, video surveillance and other applications. Their patented, award winning Linear Optical Technology® corrects barrel distortion and improves image resolution over typical wide lenses. Theia lenses are designed and marketed from the US and manufactured to ISO 9001:2015 standards. Theia also provides optical engineering and custom design services. For more information, contact Andrea Van Landingham at +1 (503) 570-3296, or visit www.theiatech.com.
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