Data Transfer; Software - Matrox Meteor-II Installation And Hardware Reference Manual

MIL
MIL-Lite
supports acquisition from one camera at a time or simultaneous acquisition from
up to three gen-locked RS-170/CCIR cameras. Matrox Meteor-II /Multi-Channel
supports both single and dual-tap configurations. It also accepts an external trigger,
and can operate in either asynchronous reset mode or next valid frame/field mode.
The PCI form factor also includes an auxiliary power supply input, which can be
used to draw auxiliary power from your computer to provide power to your
camera.

Data transfer

The Matrox Meteor-II /Multi-Channel board allows the transfer of live video to
Host memory or off-board display memory. To prevent loss of data during long
bus-access latencies found in heavily loaded computer systems, the Matrox
Meteor-II /Multi-Channel board features 4 Mbytes of video transfer memory for
temporary frame storage. The board is also equipped with the Matrox Video
Interface ASIC (VIA), which acts as a video-to-PCI bridge.

Software

To operate Matrox Meteor-II /Multi-Channel, you can purchase one or more
Matrox Imaging software products that support the Matrox Meteor-II
/Multi-Channel board. These are the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) and its
derivatives (MIL-Lite, ActiveMIL, ActiveMIL-Lite, and Matrox Inspector). All
Matrox software is supported under Windows; consult your software manual for
supported Windows environments.
❖ Note that, although other software products might be available to operate Matrox
Meteor-II /Multi-Channel, the discussion throughout this manual is based in
terms of Matrox Imaging software products.
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: geometric transformations, spatial filtering
operations, morphological operations, measurements, blob analysis, optical
character recognition (OCR), pattern recognition (Normalized Grayscale
Correlation pattern matching and Geometric Model Finder), edge extraction
(Edge Finder), matrix/bar code reading, and calibration.
MIL-Lite is a subset of MIL. It includes all the MIL commands for image
acquisition, transfer, display control, and archiving.
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