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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. 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 p...

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-resolution, high-performance cameras to be used in industrial and scientific applications th...

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 9 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 associate...

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 recommended computer requirements and gives the procedures needed to install...

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 12 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 po...

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 13 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. ...

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 15 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™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 16 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 acquisit...

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 17 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 im...

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 18 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 ...

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 19 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 T...

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 20 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 availabl...

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 21 5.7. Record Settings The Record Settings dialog box allows the user to select the recording parameters. The images may be acquired directly to RAM or to the selected directory on the hard disk. When images are recorded they are streamed to HOS...

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 22 Enable automatic save… If this option is selected, the program stores the images to the hard disk immediately after the acquisition. Acquisition folder Name The parameter indicates the directory in the hard disk where the acquired images will ...

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 troubleshooting scenarios are listed in the table below: Symptom Possible Remedy Camera LED not ON Flip the switch at the b...

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 pixels 1434 x 1050 Number of active pixels 13...

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 26 7.2. Spectral Sensitivity NOTE : optional cooling reduces the thermal noise at long exposures. The dark current is reduced. 7.3. Lenses and mounts C–mount or F–mount lenses can be readily interfaced to the cameras. The standard lens is Nikon 5...

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 27 7.4. Trigger connector The camera generates image data that is sent to the host interface via the IEEE-1394 cable. The camera can be controlled from the host computer via this cable. The auxiliary power supply provides power in those cases whe...

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 28 7.5. Cables Included with the camera there are 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...

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 below: Format Ext Pixel Depth Notes Tagged Image File Format - TIFF™ TIF 8/16 Grayscale ...

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 30 8.1.3. PNG Format PNG is an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace many common uses of TIFF. Indexed-color, grayscale, an...

sharpVISION™ Digital Camera sharpVISION ™ User Manual 31 8.1.8. Multi-page Raw Format (MRF) Multi-page Raw Format (MRF) is an uncompressed IDT proprietary file format. Multiple raster images are stored in a single file. The format is described below. Each MRF file contains a file header, an image he...

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 unsigned long that may be user by the user to store other information. 8.1.8.3. Data arra...

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 unsign...