Canadian Companies

Arius3D

Arius3D is a content creation company, built on the foundation of a unique, transforming and enabling set of integrated technologies, that offers strategic enterprise solutions to today's greatest visualization challenges.  Arius3D creates and delivers the world's best visual content faster and easier than alternative methods.

Arius3D Inc. is a company formed expressly to define, establish, support and grow the cross-industry, global reference standard for 3D color imaging. The company has secured a worldwide exclusive license to commercialize state-of-the-art, three-dimensional, color, laser imaging technology from the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). The technology is patented by the Government of Canada and Arius3D Inc. Arius3D does not ãsellä scanners or scanning systems.  Scanners are leased.

Using a revolutionary system, Arius3D digitally captures both the color and geometry of real world objects, simultaneously and in perfect registration Objects are captured independent of ambient light and at near microscopic resolution, resulting in archival quality, 3D digital copies of real world objects.

The technology consists of a laser camera and a motion control system for moving the camera. The shape and color measurements are completely independent of the effects of ambient light. Scanned data are recorded and processed by software to transform the data into high-quality, 3D color images. The laser scanning mechanism characterizes each point on the scanned object according to its color and location in 3-space. It does this by scanning the surface of an object with three different laser wavelengths (red, green and blue) in one focused beam, and recording the reflected light.
 

Arius3D data is software and platform agnostic.  It can easily be exported into any other 2D or 3D visualization software package.  Images can also be presented using Arius3D's Pointstream viewer that allows the interactive display of true 3D images in a fully scalable representation.

Arius3D Inc. ("The Company") is a private company.

Jim McGlone, CFO - 905-270-7999 or
jim.mcglone@arius3d.com

VisionSphere

VisionSphere Technologies Inc. specializes in the development and marketing of biometric face recognition, hardware/software solutions for Secure Access applications such as:

computer network logon authentication,
secure e-Business verification,
physical access control,
time and attendance,
registration programs,
facial database scrubbing (find duplicates), and
government entitlement benefit dispensation programs.

The company has developed proprietary face recognition software and hardware products.

Every face verification or recognition system must rely on the same three steps: Face detection and location of key features
Extraction of facial descriptors
Comparison of extracted information to a database
 

VisionSphere Technologies is constantly seeking strategic alliances and partnerships with companies that can assist us in deploying worldwide, our line of fully integrated hardware/software, face recognition solutions.

The purpose of the pilot project is to have participating police services deploy, test, evaluate, and provide a written report to the CPRC on Project BlueBear and its technology, VS-Ident-secure distributed networked search technology integrated with VST's face-recognition and textual search engine-which facilitates the sharing of information and the integration of information systems within the criminal justice community, via the Internet, in a
highly-secure environment.

If your organization has experience in selling to the following markets contact us by sending an email to skhan@visionspheretech.com.

VisionSphere Technologies Inc.
260 Hearst Way, Suite 311
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2L 3H1
Tel.: (613) 599-7766
Fax: (613) 599-1865
 

Spectra

Spectra is now part of Sanchez Computer Associates, Inc.

Spectra is a leading supplier of software solutions to companies in the financial services industry. Spectra Securities Software has developed the industry's only integrated broker desktop, making it easy for brokers and traders to provide financial advice to their clients while buying and selling securities on their behalf. The Spectra Portfolio system is used by several major players in the North American financial services industry to provide superior customer service and help meet the financial goals of their clients.

High Road Communications

Based in Canada with the ability to deliver the world, High Road Communications Inc. helps technology and telecommunications companies expand their businesses through results-driven public relations and marketing communications. High Road has offices in both Toronto and Ottawa.

Ottawa Office:
11 Holland Avenue
Suite 715
Ottawa, Ontario
K1Y 4S1
Tel: (613) 236-0909
Fax: (613) 236-2117

Rick Doyon: rdoyon@highroad.com

Sanchez, a dominant provider of financial services solutions worldwide, combines Spectra's wealth management solution with Sanchez' proven retail banking solutions to provide a truly comprehensive, integrated banking and wealth management platform
 

More information about Spectra is available at http://www.spectrasoftware.com/
 

Silanis

Silanis is an expert in automating the Business Approval Process. We help our customers to document their existing or planned business approval needs, define improvements, develop solutions, and impact decisions that enable their businesses to operate more  efficiently. Leveraging core technology such as electronic signatures, digital signatures, business process re-engineering, workflow and e-contracting, Silanis builds, and delivers solutions that automate the Business Approval Process.

3M-AiT

3M-AiT, Ltd. provides technology solutions for the authentication of individuals. For more than 15 years our ID products have been used for the issuance and inspection of highly secure documents like passports and visas. Today our products are used in more than 50 countries, and there are nearly 20,000 of our document readers installed around the globe.

The strengths we've developed over the years managing personal ID information, applying pre-defined business rules to decision making, authenticating individuals and documents, and data capture were applied to the development of our access products. Our newest product area, our access products harness the power of the Internet to access data held in remote databases and make it available to authorized users for real time decision-making.

For Sales and Marketing inquiries: 3M-AiTinfo@mmm.com
The Americas & Asia Pacific
Headquarters
1545 Carling Avenue, Suite 700nercard
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1Z 8P9
Phone: +1 613 722 2070
Fax: +1 613 722 2063

Synercard

Synercard Announces Latest Versions Of Digital Identity And Photo Card Management (ID) Software With Integrated Camera And Smart Card Support

Since 1997, Synercard has been designing, and distributing robust digital identity and photo card management solutions that enable organizations of any size anywhere to create, manage and verify an individualâs identity.  Headquartered in Gatineau, Quebec, part of Canadaâs national capital region, Synercard strives to be the leading provider of intuitive, fully interoperable digital identity software solutions.

Purpose

The purpose of a digital identity is the control of physical and logical access through:

* Identification of an individual
* Verification of the individualâs credentials and his/her physical and logical access rights and privileges
Overview Features Requirements
The perfect digital identity and photo card management solution for large organizations that operate over a corporate (LAN/WAN) network. Multiple operators and different departments can easily create, update and maintain multiple shared databases in real time.

Why Use Asure ID Enterprise:

More Powerful Features!

Asure ID Enterprise is the result of Synercardâs research into the needs of digital identity and photo card management software users. They told us what features theyâd like to see and we built a product they love to use. Using Asure ID Enterpriseâs advanced networking and database tools users can easily create, edit and view records that are shared on a corporate database between multiple operators and different departments.

High End Performance Without The High End Price.

While Asure ID Enterprise incorporates the power, features, security and flexibility of a high end digital identity and photo card management software product, its price is anything but high end. It was designed to be cost competitive while also incorporating leading edge features such as the ability to encode contact and contactless smart cards as well as being one of the only software programs that allows encoding facial images in Datastripâs 2D barcode symbology.

For sales related questions, please feel free to call us at: (877) ASURE ID or (819) 777-6687

strategic@synercard.com
 

IDELIX Software, Inc.-Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Photogrammetric Vector
Collection and Terrain Editing

The Challenge:
Techniques for semi-automated feature extraction are not reliable enough for the purpose of photogrammetric vector collection and terrain editing from aerial and satellite imagery. Therefore, an alternative was required to speed up the manual process without losing data quality.
With stereo Pliable Display Technology, detail can be presentedin the context of background data, increasing collection and QC productivity by 20%.
(Photo: Boeing Autometric)The
Solution:
Detail-in-context technology allowed analysts to collect full-res data, surrounded by a lower-resolution context display. This reduced the amount of time by minimizing the screen displays covered and reducing search time for applicable features. After initial technical discussions with Boeing, IDELIX prepared a proof-of-concept demonstration of stereo Pliable Display Technology (PDT) for use at their Vancouver headquarters. Once the concept was validated, Boeing Autometric entered in a licensing agreement with IDELIX to use PDT in its products.

The Difference It Made:
Noticeable performance improvements have been reported in the field of manual feature collection in imagery. Atlantic Air Survey Ltd., which utilizes Boeing Autometric's new stereo PDT lensing capability in SoftPlotter 4.0 and KDSP 1.2, reports that the increased functionality resulting from the stereo lensing option has made a significant contribution to their production process. The real-time zoom option enabled Atlantic Air Survey to edit and collect data concurrently, resulting in a time savings of at least 20%. This approach has proven especially useful when editing contours and DEM data, as well as performing quality control tasks.
Tools
Used:
IDELIX's PDT software development kit (SDK) and Boeing Autometric's softcopy photogrammetry packages SoftPlotter and KDSP

Satlantic

Dr. Marlon Lewis, President of Satlantic Incorporated http://www.satlantic.com/ in Halifax, has been awarded a 1999 Atlantic Canada Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Technology.
Dr. Lewis created Satlantic to complement NASA's oceanographic activities with a line of advanced optical systems designed and prototyped at Dalhousie University. He followed this in 1992 with a service providing near-instant information on ocean conditions collected from remote sensing satellites.
With a staff of over 50, about 98 percent of Satlantic's sales are made outside of Canada, establishing Halifax as a centre of this ocean tracking technology and Dr. Lewis as an entrepreneurial success.

Welcome to Satlantic!
We design, manufacture, and sell a wide range of precision sensors and systems for the study of the marine environment.  In addition to our range of optical sensors, we also offer sophisticated instrument integration, large scale ocean observatory design,  and data  extraction tools that enable real-time operational decision-making. Our custom design capabilities allow us to provide our clients with the ideal solution package.

Satlantic is pleased to be attending this years ERF 2003 Conference, September 14-18th at the Washington State Convention Center.  For more information about the show, visit http://fish.washington.edu/news/erf/.
 

International Biometric Companies
 

SVision LLC

SVision LLC provides the next-generation image-based decision technology that solves the most difficult machine vision, medical image understanding, and biometric identification problems. Low-cost software solutions that automatically learn to solve sophisticated image-based decision applications are now reality. SVision LLC provides contract research and development services for its clients. SVision LLC products are low-cost, high performance PC-based solution suites for application users.

Contact: Sales & Marketing
Address: 11911 NE First Street
Suite B308
Bellevue, WA 98005 USA
Phone: (425) 450-1014
Fax: (425) 452-0806
Website: www.svisionllc.com