User`s guide

vi Contents

Toolbox Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

The Image Processing Toolbox Software Required to Use the

Image Acquisition Toolbox Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

The Image Acquisition Tool (GUI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

Supported Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

Setting Up Image Acquisition Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

Setting Up Frame Grabbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

Setting Up Generic Windows Video Acquisition Devices . . . . 2-8

Setting Up DCAM Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

Resetting Your Image Acquisition Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

A Note About Frame Rates and Processing Speed . . . . . . . . . 2-8

Previewing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10

Opening a Video Preview Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11

Stopping the Preview Video Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12

Closing a Video Preview Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13

Previewing Data in Custom GUIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13

Performing Custom Processing of Previewed Data . . . . . . . . 2-15

Using the Image Acquisition Tool GUI

The Image Acquisition Tool Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Opening the Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Parts of the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Getting Started with the Image Acquisition Tool . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Selecting Your Device in Image Acquisition Tool . . . . . . . . . 3-8

Selecting a Device and Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8

Adding New Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

Using a Camera File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

Setting Acquisition Parameters in Image Acquisition Tool 3-11

Using the Acquisition Parameters Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11

Setting Frames Per Trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

Setting the Color Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13