Specifications

sharpVISION™ Camera
sharpVISION™ SDK Reference
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6.1. Overview
The sharpVISION™ LabVIEW® Interface allows acquiring images and controlling the
sharpVISION digital cameras from inside National Instruments LabVIEW application. It works
with LabVIEW 6 and greater, on Windows 2000/XP. Windows NT is not supported.
The sharpVISION™ LabVIEW™ Interface includes the VIs (Virtual Instruments) for
controlling the camera and a few example VIs to show how to use the interface: the camera
Vis are packaged in a library called IDT.LLB) located in the Idt directory in the user.lib
subdirectory of the LabVIEW folder. The examples are located in the LabVIEW subdirectory
of the installation folder (C:\Program Files\IDT\sharpVISION).
The sharpVISION Vis may be accessed by selecting the “Show Functions Palette” menu item
from the Window” menu, then by clicking the “User Libraries” button and the “IDT
sharpVISION VIs” button.
The VI interface and examples are listed below.
6.2. Initialization VIs
6.2.1. Overview: Initialization VIs
Initialization VIs allow the user to initialize the sharpVISION cameras, enumerate the
available cameras, open and close them.
IDT List Cameras: it enumerates the sharpVISION cameras currently connected to the
computer. Then it outputs a list of the IDs of the enumerated cameras.
IDT Open: it opens a sharpVISION camera. The user may open a specific camera supplying
its unique ID (retrieved using the List Cameras VI) or open the first available camera
supplying 0 as ID.
IDT Close: it closes a sharpVISION camera, previously open.