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1 DC 300 Docume nt Came ra USER MANUAL[...]
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2 Please read thi s manual careful ly before operating the document camera and keep it for reference . PRECAU TION S NOTICE: PLEASE READ CAREFUL L Y BEF ORE US E Use t he docu ment ca mera und er the ra te d el ectric condit ions. Do not place the document came ra on an unstable surface a s i t may fall , c aus i ng injury or da mage. D[...]
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3 USER MANUAL ............................................................................. 1 1 . P ARTS IDENTIFICA TION .......................................................... 4 2. CONTR OL P ANEL ..................................................................... 5 3. INPUTS AND OUTPUTS .......................................................[...]
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4 1. PA R T S I D E N T I F I C AT I O N 1. Came ra 2. LED L ight 3. Flexible C amera A rm 4. IR R ec ei v er f or Rem ot e C on tr ol 5. Inte rface P ane l (VGA P ort, Powe r I nput and USB ) 6. Control P ane l 7. Kensington L ock 7[...]
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5 2. CONTROL P ANEL 1. POWER : T urn on /of f the powe r . 2 . LAMP : Turn on/off the LED light. 3 . AUTO : Perform auto focus, color adjustment and white bal ance. 4. FOCUS +/ - : A djust focus m anually . 5. BRIGHT+/ - : Image brightnes s control. 6. ZO OM+/ - : Control i mage zo om in and zoom ou t . 3. INPUTS A ND OU TPUTS 1. DC 12V : Pow er in[...]
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6 3. REMOTE CONTROL 1. Powe r : Power d ocument cam era on and o f f 2. Video : Video mode 3. Home/Dire cti onal Key : Home b utton 4. Lamp : Turn LED light On/O ff 5. Save : Capture the ima ge in display 6. Reca ll : Image reca ll mode en abled, display t he saved images 7. Auto : Perform auto focus, color ad justment and white balanc e 8. Split :[...]
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7 10. Rotate : Rotate image 11 . Sharp+/ - : Im age sharpne ss contr ol 12. Compute r : Comp uter mode 13. SXGA /XGA : Sw itc h th e ou tput sig nal bet wee n XG A a nd SX GA 14. Mir ror : Output right - and - left, up - and - down mirror image 15. Page +/ - : Saved ima ge page up an d down wh en image rec all mode is en abled 16 . Zoom+/ - : Im ag[...]
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8 5. CONNECTIONS 5.1. COMP UTER C O NNECTION 5.2. VGA OUTPUT CONNECTION[...]
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9 6. COMMUNICA TING WITH CO MPUTE R 6.1 COMPUTER REQUIREME NTS Mini m um PC and softwar e requiremen ts: Operat ing syste m: Win dows X P CPU: Pentium 4 1.8G Hz Physical memory: 512M Vide o m em or y: 64 M 6.2 USB FUNCTION SOFTW ARE INST ALLA TION Click “Next” when dialogue box appears to run the softw are insta llation pack age :[...]
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10 Read th e terms , s elect "I accept the terms in the license agreem ent " and c lick "Next" as shown below : When t he foll owing dial ogue box appears, cli ck "Next":[...]
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11 The defau lt installati on dire ctory i s Prog ram Files, C: Pr ogram Files . Click “Next” to proceed w ith default i nstallat ion directo ry or click “ Change” to sel ect a dif fere nt ins tallation directory : After selecti ng destination folder , click “OK”.[...]
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12 Then c lick "Next". Click "Install" to comp lete installation.[...]
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13 Click "Finish” to co mplete the insta llation. Then you will see the following dialogue box , which is an ins tallation packag e for 2005 C++ environmen t. If your PC alread y h as this instal led, click " No" t o exit . O therwis e, click "Y es" to ins tall it.[...]
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14 ST ART ING SOFTW ARE Double click the s hort cut icon on the desktop to laun ch the softwar e. IMAGE CAPTURE AND VIDEO RECORDING Left c lick to ca pture imag es. The capt ured im age s wil l be au toma ticall y sav ed in to the default destination folder . The path and file name are displayed i n software status bar on the bottom of the window a[...]
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15 Left click to start re cording. While rec ording , the settin gs button will b e inactive. Detailed inform ation is disp layed on the s oftware sta tus bar at the bottom of the w indow . The video is aut omaticall y saved in the def ault folder or pre - set folder . S ETTIN GS The captured images and recorded videos wil l be saved au tomaticall [...]
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16 the option s of recordin g video with or without so und as sho wn below: “ The lengt h of video that can be recorded ” box displays the longest r ecording time for videos to be saved i n the preset pat h as s hown below: Click “ save ” to complete settin g. IMAGE MOD IFICA TIONS To b e g i n i m a g e m o d i f i c a t i o n s , c l i c [...]
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17 Line Clicking icon a llow s you to crea te lines with in the imag e. icon allow s you to change the setting of t he chosen line .[...]
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18 Line W idth: C hange the width of the line. X, Y : C hange the posit ion of the line. Color: C hange the c olor o f the l ine. Widt h, He ight: Chan ge the a ngle of t he line. Rectangles icon allow s you to pla ce a rectan gl e in the image as show n below . icon allow s you to ch ange the s etting of the c hosen rec tangle .[...]
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19 Line W idth: C hange the li ne width of the rectangle. X, Y : C hange the posit ion of the rectangle. Color: C hange the l ine color of the rectangle. Fill C olor: Check box to fill color in th e rectangle. Widt h, Hei ght: Chang e the shape of the rect angl e by ch angi ng the angle of two adjace nt lines of the rectangle. Circ ular Shapes icon[...]
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20 Line W idth: C hange the li ne width of the circle. X, Y : C hange the posit ion of the circle. Color: C hange the l ine color of the circle. Fill Color: Check box to fill colo r in the circle. Widt h, H ei ght: C hange the size of t he circle. Freeform icon allow s you to pla ce scri bbles in the imag e as sh own below . i c o n a l l o w s y o[...]
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21 Line W idth: C hange the li ne width of the curve. X, Y : C hange the posit ion of the curve. Color: C hange the l ine color of the curve. Graphic Default Setting icon allow s you to ch ange th e defa ult graphic settin g . Deleting Graphic Click t o d e l e t e t h e c h o s e n g r a p h i c . Delete all the g raphic s Click t o d e l e t e a [...]
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22 7. FEA TURES LIGHT DC300 is RoHS com pliant, which mea ns it meets the rigorou s Europe an Union ʼ s requirements for restriction of the use of ce rtain hazard ous subs tances in electrical an d electronic equipm ent. DC300 uses eco - friend ly , low - power LED ʼ s w h i c h a r e c o o l t o t h e touch and mercury free. ZOOM IN A ND ZOO M O[...]
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23 ROT A T E M OD E Allows you to rota te i mages. FR EEZE IMAGE Use " F rz " button to freeze and unfreeze the im age. MIR ROR IMA GE T he “ Mi r ” button allow s you to show different pers pective s of an ob ject. SPL IT SC RE EN The “Split” button allows you t o spl it th e screen and compar e tw o differ ent im ages or view s [...]
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24 8. SPECIFICA TION Mode l DC300 Sens or 1/3" CMOS Pixels 2 Megapixel s Zoom 9x O ptical , 12 x D igital Frame R ate 12 Shoo ting Area Max: 16 .5"x1 1.7 ", M in: 0.1 "x0.1" Focus Auto/ M anual Outpu t R esolution XGA, SXGA Resolut ion (Horizontal) ≥ 750 TV L ines Whit e B alance Auto/ M anual Color A djustment Ye s Brig [...]
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25 9. TROUBLE - SHOOTING Sympt oms Possib le cause s/c ounte r - measures No image 1. Power cord is not properl y connected. 2. Cables are n ot properly connected . 3. Power switch is no t turne d on. 4. The bui lt - in fuse is b roken: Chan ge fuse. 5. Change the output res olution. Image b ending 1. Camera is not in right position, adju st the ca[...]
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26 10. P ACKING LIST Ite m Quantity Power C ord 1 Power A daptor (12V/2A) 1 VGA C able 1 USB C able (2.0) 1 Remote C ontrol 1 User M anual (CD) 1 Contact: Optoma T echn olo gy , Inc., 31 78 Lau relview C t., Fre m ont , CA, Te l : 5 1 0 - 89 7- 8600 , For customer servi ce p lease call: 1 - 888 - 887 - 5001 All Speci ficatio ns are su bject to chan[...]