User's Manual

10 Chapter 1: Introduction
! Note that, although other software products might be available to operate Matrox
Meteor-II /Camera Link, the discussion throughout this manual is based in terms
of Matrox Imaging software products.
MIL MIL is a development library which provides an extensive list of commands used
to capture, process, analyze, transfer, display, and archive images. Processing and
analysis operations include: spatial filtering operations, morphological operations,
measurements, blob analysis, optical character recognition (OCR), pattern
recognition (Normalized Grayscale Correlation and Geometric Model Finder),
matrix/bar code reading, and calibration.
MIL-Lite MIL-Lite is a subset of MIL. It includes all the MIL commands for image
acquisition, transfer, display control, and archiving.
ActiveMIL ActiveMIL is a set of ActiveX controls that are based on MIL. ActiveMIL was
designed for rapid application development (RAD) tools, such as Microsoft’s
Visual Basic. ActiveMIL is included with MIL (ActiveMIL-Lite is included with
MIL-Lite).
Matrox Inspector Matrox Inspector is an interactive Windows application for image capture,
processing, analysis, and archiving.
MIL application developers can use Matrox Inspector as a prototyping tool to
quickly build proof-of-concept demonstrations for their machine vision, image
analysis, and medical imaging system. End users can use Matrox Inspector to
perform and automate image enhancement and measurement tasks.
Matrox Intellicam Matrox Intellicam is an interactive Windows program that allows fast camera
interfacing and provides interactive access to all the acquisition features of your
Matrox board. For boards that accept non-standard video sources, Matrox
Intellicam also has the ability to create custom digitizer configuration format
(DCF) files, which MIL and its derivatives use to interface to specific non-standard
video sources. Matrox Intellicam is included with MIL /ActiveMIL and MIL-Lite
/ActiveMIL-Lite.