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sharpVISION™
sharpVISION™
Cross-platform User Manual
Cross-platform User Manual
Programmable Digital Camera
Programmable Digital Camera
(Windows™ and MAC™)
(Windows™ and MAC™)
Copyright © 2000, 2006 Integrated Design Tools, Inc.
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera Software Release 2.07 Document Revision October 2006 Products Information http://www.idtvision.com North America 1804 Miccosukee Commons, suite 208 TALLAHASSE FL 32308 USA P: (+1) (850) 222-5939 F: (+1) (850) 222-4591 llourenco@idtvision.com Europe via Pennella, 94 I- 38057 - Pergine Valsugana (TN) ITALY P: (+39) 0461- 53 21 12 F: (+39) 0461- 53 21 04 pgallorosso@idtvision.com Copyright © Integrated Desi
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera Table of Contents 1. PRECAUTIONS...........................................................................................5 1.1. CLEANING THE SENSOR ......................................................................................5 1.2. LASER................................................................................................................5 1.3. CHECK CABLING ......................................................................................
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera 8.1.6. BLD Format...............................................................................................................30 8.1.7. MPEG Format ...........................................................................................................30 8.1.8. Multi-page Raw Format (MRF) .................................................................................31 8.1.9. Multi-page Compressed Format (MCF)................................................
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera 1 1.. P Pr re ec ca au ut tiio on ns s 1.1. Cleaning the sensor IDT recommends that the sensor NOT be manipulated in any fashion. Clean the optical surfaces with filtered, compressed air and glass cleaner or distilled water. Use a cotton swab or lens paper. Do not use alcohol or other solvents as these may damage the optical coating and cements. 1.2. Laser Do not focus a laser beam on the sensor directly or by reflection, it can cause permanent damage to
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera 2 2.. W Wa ar rr ra an nt ty y IDT, Inc. provides warrants to the original purchaser that, from the date of delivery, the hardware components of the sharpVISION ™ Digital Camera (the “Product”) will be in good working condition for a period of one (1) year on all parts. Should any of the components of this Product fail to be in good working order at any time during this warranty period, IDT, Inc. will either repair or replace those components at its factory a
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera 3 3.. S Sy ys st te em m O Ov ve er rv viie ew w 3.1. Introduction to the sharpVISION™ Camera The sharpVISION ™ digital cameras are high-resolution, high-performance cameras to be used in industrial and scientific applications that include machine vision, microscopy and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). The sharpVISION ™ cameras are built around the scientific grade SONY ICX sensors. The ICX are progressive scan, CCD interline solid-state sensors with a sq
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera • Controlled exposure from 35 μsec up to 15 minutes in increments of 1 μsec. • Fast inter-frame time (200 ns) for Particle Image Velocimetry applications. • 12 bit digitizer (8 and 12 image bit depth). These features make the sharpVISION digital cameras suitable for different applications: • Astronomy. • Microscopy. • Spectroscopy. • X-Ray Imaging. • Motion Analysis. • Biological Analysis. • Particle Image Velocimetry. The sharpVISION ™ cameras contain an
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera 3.3. Software Development Kit Upon the installation of the sharpVISION software package several options are available to the user. These options are easily accessed via the Program menu under the Windows Start button. The programs and associated files are organized under the IDT/sharpVISION folder. This folder includes the example programs and the associated documentation. The software components included in the sharpVISION Software Development Kit are listed be
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera 4 4.. IIn ns st ta alllliin ng g t th he e s sh ha ar rp pV VIIS SIIO ON N™ ™ c ca am me er ra a This section specifies the minimum recommended computer requirements and gives the procedures needed to install the Camera Head, Camera Cable, Power Supply, I/O Cable, and software. 4.1. Minimum computer requirements PC MAC Operating System Windows 2000, Windows XP MAC OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or higher Processor Pentium III or equivalent with 500 G3 MAC OS X c
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera 4.3. Software Installation Windows 2000/XP Before installing the software make sure that the computer has Windows 2000 or Windows XP installed as operating system. 1. Log into Windows with a username and password that has ADMINISTRATIVE PRIVILEGES. 2. Insert the sharpVISION™ VISION CD in the CD drive. If the computer is configured to AUTORUN, the installer will run automatically. If not, click on the Windows Start button. Select Run from the menu. Use the Bro
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera 4.4. Hardware installation The camera gets the necessary power from the computer via the fire-wire cable. If the power provided by the PC is not enough an additional power supply unit is included with the camera system package. The external power supply is only required when a laptop and/or a 6 to 4 pin cable is used. The external power supply is also required for camera models that incorporate an additional cooling module. All communication and data transfer wi
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera IEEE-1394 Connectors Power ON/OFF Power Connector Trigger and Sync Control LED 4.5. Camera lens adapter The camera is supplied with a standard C-mount. Alternatively, a C to F mount adapter is available to interface with F-mount (Nikon type) lenses. Use Nikon lenses with a tilt/shift capability when imaging at an angle. As an option, mounting hardware for tilt/shift lenses by Canon is also available. Contact your IDT sales representative for or
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera 5 5.. s sh ha ar rp pV VIIS SIIO ON N™ ™ s st ta an nd d- -a allo on ne e p pr ro og gr ra am m 5.1. Overview This application allows the user to acquire, save/play-back image records, and control the camera in Single or Double Exposure modes. The GUI for the application is shown below. Using the Camera Control dialog box, the user may interactively select the camera operating modes as well as other parameters like exposure, binning, and so on. The user ma
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera 5.2. sharpVISION™ menu structure The X-Vision main menu bar contains the following options: File Camera View Help 5.3. File Menu The File menu contains the following options: • Save on the hard disk Images • Close the program and exit. sharpVISION ™ User Manual 15
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera 5.4. Save images Each acquired sequence may be opened and saved in a different format. 1. From the main menu select File > Save Images… or 2. Click the Save Images button on the toolbar. 3. Click Browse... if you want to change the acquisitions directory. 4. Edit the name of the acquisition sub folder. 5. Edit the mane of the image prefix. 6. Select the file format, the start index, the stop index and the step. Example: if the parameters are those in the pi
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera 5.5. Camera Menu The camera menu on the main menu offers an alternative to using the buttons provided by the main toolbar, including the following options: 1. Record a sequence. 2. Stop play of images or Snap a single image. 3. Live play of images. 4. Playback the acquired sequence. 5. Toggle the camera settings dialog box. 6. Open the record settings dialog box. 7. Set a region of interest. 8. Acquire the background image. sharpVISION ™ User Manual
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera 5.6. Camera Control The camera configuration parameters may be interactively changed by opening the camera settings dialog box. The user may set the camera in play mode and adjust the parameters. Exposure Time Use the f-stop buttons to select a new exposure value. The value is in microseconds Rate The current camera rate is updated any time a parameter changes. Contrast and Brightness Use the spin buttons to select new values of brightness and contrast. The
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera This parameter controls the speed at which the image data is read from the CCD. The supported values are: 20 MHz, 10 MHz, 5 MHz and 2MHz. Exposure Mode Use the drop-down list to select either Single or Double exposure mode. Trigger/Sync Mode The default state of the camera at start-up is in the Internal/continuous mode. In this mode the camera does not require a trigger input signal. The other camera modes (External Edge High, Edge Low, Pulse High and Pulse Lo
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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera 5.6.1. Set a region of interest (ROI) The sharpVISION camera has a Partial Windowing capability that can be selected and set via the software interface. Using this setting a region of interest for the image that is less than the total available area of the sensor may be selected. This region can be interactively adjusted and can occupy any area of the sensor’s active pixels. 1. Click on the Edit… button on the Camera Control dialog box. 2. From the Edit Region
