Sharp sharpVISION sharpVISION Digital Camera manual

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sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 2 Software Release 2.07 Document Revision October 2006 Products Information http://www.idtvision.com North America 1804 Miccosukee Commo ns, suite 2 08 TALLAHASSE FL 32308 USA P: (+1) (850) 222-5939 F: (+1) (850) 222-4591 llourenco@idtvision.com Europe via Pennella, 94 I- 38057 - Pergine Val[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 3 Table of Contents 1. PRECAUTIONS ........................................................................................... 5 1.1. C LEANING THE SENSOR ...................................................................................... 5 1.2. L ASER ....................................[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 4 8.1.6. BLD Fo rmat ............................................................................................................... 30 8.1.7. MPEG Format ........................................................................................................... 30 8.1.8. Multi-page Raw Fo r[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 5 1 1 . . P P r r e e c c a a u u t t i i o o n n s s 1.1. Cleaning the sensor IDT recommends that th e sensor NOT be manipulated in any fashion . Clean the optical surfaces with filtered, compre ssed air and glass cleaner or di stilled water. Use a cotton swab or lens paper. Do not use alco[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 6 2 2 . . W W a a r r r r a a n n t t y y IDT, Inc. pr ovides warrants to the origin al purchaser that, from the date of delivery, the hardware components of the sharpVISION ™ Digital Came ra (the “Product”) wil l be in good working condition for a period of one (1) year on all parts. [...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 7 3 3 . . S S y y s s t t e e m m O O v v e e r r v v i i e e w w 3.1. Introduction to the sharpVISION™ Camera The sharpVISION ™ digital cameras are high-re solution, high-performance ca meras to be used in industrial and scientific applications that in clude machine vision, microscopy a[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 8 • Controlled exposure from 35 μ sec up to 15 minutes i n increme nts of 1 μ sec. • Fast inter-frame time (200 ns) for Pa rticle Image Velocimetry ap plications. • 12 bit digitizer (8 and 12 image bit dept h). These features make the sharpVISION digital cameras suitable for differen[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 9 3.3. Software Development Kit Upon the installation of the sh arpVISION software package several options are availabl e to the user. These options are easily accessed vi a the Program menu under the Wind ows Start button. The programs and asso ciat ed files are organized unde r the IDT/sha[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 10 4 4 . . I I n n s s t t a a l l l l i i n n g g t t h h e e s s h h a a r r p p V V I I S S I I O O N N ™ ™ c c a a m m e e r r a a This section specifies the minimum recommend ed computer requirements an d gives the procedures needed to inst all the Camera Head, Camera Cable, Power S[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 11 4.3. Software Installation Windows 2000/XP Before installing the software make sure that the computer has Wind ows 2000 or Windows XP installed as operating system. 1. Log into Wi ndows with a userna me and password that has ADMI NISTRATIVE PRIVILEGES . 2. Insert the sharpVISION™ VISION[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 12 4.4. Hardware installation The camera gets the necessary powe r from the co mputer via the fire-wire cable. If the power provided by the PC is not enough an additional power supply unit is i ncluded with the cam era system package. The external p o wer supply is only required whe n a lapt[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 13 4.5. Camera lens adapter The camera is supplied with a stand ard C-mount. Alternatively, a C to F moun t adapter is available to interface with F-mount (Ni kon type ) lenses. Use Nikon lens es with a tilt/shift capability when imaging at an angle. As an option, mounting hardware for tilt/[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 14 5 5 . . s s h h a a r r p p V V I I S S I I O O N N ™ ™ s s t t a a n n d d - - a a l l o o n n e e p p r r o o g g r r a a m m 5.1. Overview This application allows the user to acquire, save/play-back im age records, and control the camera in Single or Double Exposure mode s. The G U[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 15 5.2. sharpVISION™ menu structure The X-Vision main menu bar co ntain s 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™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 16 5.4. Save images Each acquired sequen ce 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 chan ge the acquisitions directory. 4. Edit the name of the ac[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 17 5.5. Camera Menu The camera menu on the main menu offers an alternative to usi ng 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 sequen ce. 5. [...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 18 5.6. Camera Control The camera configuration param eters 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 valu e. The value is in micro [...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 19 This parameter controls t he speed at which the image d ata is read from the CCD. The supported values are: 20 MHz, 10 M Hz, 5 MHz and 2MHz. Exposure Mode Use the drop-down list to select eith er Single or Double exposure mode. Trigger/Sync Mode The default state of the camera at start -u[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 20 5.6.1. Set a region of interest (ROI) The sharpVISION came ra has a Partia l Windowing capability that can be selected and set via the software interface. Using thi s setting a regi on of interest for the image th at is less than the total available area of the sensor may be selected. Thi[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 21 5.7. Record Settings The Record Settings dialog box allows the u ser to select the recording parameters. The images may be acquired directly to RAM or to t he selecte d directory on the hard disk. Whe n images are recorded they are stream ed to HOST RAM. The maximum number of image s that[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 22 Enable automatic save… If this option is selected, the program st ores t he images to the hard disk immed iately after the acquisition. Acquisition folder Name The parameter indicates the directory i n the hard disk where the acquired images will be stored. Images name prefix Type the i[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 23 5.8. View Menu Use the View menu to magnify t he image, restore the original size (100% zoo m) or compute a zoom factor that fits in the window 5.9. Help Menu This menu contains support options a nd information including: e-mail tech support and software and manual updat es.[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 24 6 6 . . A A p p p p e e n n d d i i x x A A - - T T r r o o u u b b l l e e s s h h o o o o t t i i n n g g Some common troublesho oting scen arios are listed in the table below: Symptom Possible Remedy Camera LED not ON Flip the switch at the back of the camera tryin g the alternate posi[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 25 7 7 . . A A p p p p e e n n d d i i x x B B – – P P r r o o d d u u c c t t S S p p e e c c i i f f i i c c a a t t i i o o n n s s 7.1. Camera Specifications 1500-EX specifications Total number of p i xels 1434 x 1050 Number of active pixels 1360 x 1024 (1.4 million) Binning modes 1x[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 26 7.2. Spectral Sensitivity NOTE : optional cooling redu ces the thermal noise at long exposures. The dark current is reduced. 7.3. Lenses and mounts C–mount or F–mount lense s can be readily inte rfaced to the ca meras. The standard lens is Nikon 50 mm. Other focal lengths can be pr ov[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 27 7.4. Trigger connector The camera generates im age data that is sent to the host interface via the IEEE-1394 cable . The camera can be controlled fr om the host computer via thi s cable. The auxiliary power supply provides po wer in those case s where po wer is unavailable from the host c[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 28 7.5. Cables Included with the camera there a re two cables: IEEE 1394 Data Cable This is a IEEE-1394 6-pin interface cable. This cable can be plugged into either of the available ports at the back of the camera and it provides the connection wi th the 6-pin IEEE1394 port in t he host co m[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 29 8 8 . . A A p p p p e e n n d d i i x x C C - - I I m m a a g g e e F F o o r r m m a a t t s s sharpVISION supports the image formats listed in the table belo w: Format Ext Pixel Depth Notes Tagged Image File Format - TIFF ™ TIF 8/16 Grayscale Windows™ Bitmap BMP 8 Grayscale Portable[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 30 8.1.3. PNG Format PNG is an extensible file format for the lossless, po rtable, well-compr essed storage of ra ster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacem ent for GIF and can also replace many common uses of TIFF. In dexed-color, grayscale, and true -color images are suppo rted, plus[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 31 8.1.8. Multi-page Raw Format (MRF) Multi-page Raw Format (MRF) is an u ncompressed ID T propriet ary file format. Multiple raster images are stored in a sing le file. The format is de scribed below. Each MRF file contains a f ile header, an image he ader and an arra y of bytes that define[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 32 nWidth : width of each image in pixels. nHeight : height of each image in pixels. nBPP : number of bits per pixels (8, 10 or12) userData : an array of 64 un signed long that ma y be user by the user t o store other information. 8.1.8.3. Data array s The image head er is followed by th e i[...]

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 33 typedef struct _RCIMG_HEADER { unsigned long nSize; // size of this header unsigned long nPages; // number of pages/frames unsigned long nWidth; // image width unsigned long nHeight; // image height unsigned long nBPP; // bits per pixel unsigned long userData[64]; // user data array } RCI[...]