Uniscan Scanner
problem
Expanding use of computer equipment in the USSR provided new opportunities for innovative developments.
solution
In the end of 1980s, a group of young engineers from the Institute of Automation and Electrometry (IA&E, SB RAS) initiated development of an overhead scanner. Having achieved some success, they established a cooperative society and got on with development and promotion of their project.
Their work resulted in Uniscan overhead scanner that combined the features of a scanner and of a state-of-the-art digital camera. The resolution of 72 megapixels was enough to see distinct lashes on an A0 size image of a man.
process
The first prototypes of the scanner produces black-and-white or grey-scale images. “Discover the world in all the shades of grey!” they joked in booklets. Design was also not the best thing in the scanner.
Later colored filters were added to the construction and since that time the scanner is able to capture colorful images.
Uniscan scanner was used to capture and process images for printing, text recognition and data base creation, for map-making and engineering purposes, for digitization of rare books in the state libraries and for macro- and micrography of nonmoving objects. Combination of scanner with microscope proved to be very useful for forensic medical examinations — Uniscan scanner turned out to be the best solution for the field in the whole world.
During the period since 1989 till 1998 we sold about 450 scanners. The buyers were not only from Russia and CIS countries but also from abroad. For example the USA purchased some models of the scanner to digitize pictures in the art gallery.
Uniscan scanners were one of the first color scanners in Russia and the homonymous company was the only Russian large-scale scanner manufacture.
team
| Technical Leads — Viktor Molchanov, Andrey Bryzgalov |
| Programmer — Vyacheslav Tretyakov |
| Electronic Engineer — Vyacheslav Tretyakov |
| Expert — Sergey Novozhilov |
| Design engineer — Peter Pavlov |
| Engineer — Konstantin Peshkov |
| Sales — Margarita Bryzgalova, Valery Goncharov, Tatiana Mostovova, Yuri Pisarenko, Sergey Krytsyn, Vladimir Pivovarov |
A compact device for the melting temperature of pork fat quick measure.
Controlling mutual disposition of the moving parts of press increased the quality of the manufactured aluminium profiles and reduced the load on the press components.