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Bigeye
Technical Manual
Low-noise CCD camera with GigE interface and optional cooling
V2.4.0
2014-November-03
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH
Taschenweg 2a
D-07646 Stadtroda / Germany

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  • Page 1 Bigeye Technical Manual Low-noise CCD camera with GigE interface and optional cooling V2.4.0 2014-November-03 Allied Vision Technologies GmbH Taschenweg 2a D-07646 Stadtroda / Germany...

  • Page 2: Legal Notice

    These products are not designed for use in life support appliances, devices, or systems where mal- function of these products can reasonably be expected to result in personal injury. Allied Vision Technologies customers using or selling these products for use in such applications do so at their own risk and agree to fully indemnify Allied Vision Technologies for any damages resulting from such improper use or sale.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    CE ......................... 12 Specifications ...................... 13 Bigeye P-132B ......................13 Bigeye P-132B/C Cool / Bigeye P-132B NIR Cool ..............15 Bigeye P-629B Cool / P-629B NIR Cool ................17 Bigeye P-1100B/C Cool ....................19 Spectral sensitivity ....................... 21 Camera dimensions ..................
  • Page 4 Appendix ......................... 45 GigE Vision feature description for Bigeye cameras .............. 45 DeviceInformation....................45 ImageSizeControl..................... 46 AcquisitionControl ....................47 AnalogControls......................47 CameraSpecialFeatures....................48 CameraSpecialFeatures\BackgroundCorrection .............. 48 Index .......................... 49 Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...

  • Page 5: Contacting Allied Vision Technologies

    Allied Vision Technologies Inc. 38 Washington Street Newburyport, MA 01950, USA Tel: +1 978-225-2030 Fax: +1 978-225-2029 e-mail: info@alliedvisiontec.com Allied Vision Technologies Asia Pte. Ltd. 82 Playfair Road #07-02 D’Lithium Singapore 368001 Tel: +65 6634-9027 Fax: +65 6634-902 e-mail: info@alliedvisiontec.com Allied Vision Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
  • Page 6 Contacting Allied Vision Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...

  • Page 7: Introduction

    Allied Vision Technolo-  gies. Note In this manual, the product name Bigeye refers to the camera type Bigeye-P. Cameras of that type are equipped with a Pleora  GigE Vision module. In contrast to that, the Bigeye-G cameras are equipped with an Allied Vision GigE Vision module.
  • Page 8 Introduction Version Date Description continued from previous page V2.1.0 23.01.12 • Figure 4: Spectral sensitivity of Bigeye P-629B Cool / P-629B NIR Cool on page 22 [continued] [continued] • Chapter Bigeye P-132B/C Cool and P-132B NIR Cool on page •...

  • Page 9: Manual Overview

    Updated RoHS (2002/95/EC) to RoHS (2011/65/EU) • Updated Specifications -> Power requirements (inrush current) • Added „Surge“ warning • Corrected number of cycles of Bigeye P-629B Cool / P-629B NIR Cool shutter • Corrections derived from terminology alignment 2.4.0 2014-Nov-03 •...

  • Page 10: Conventions Used In This Manual

    This symbol highlights important information.  Caution This symbol highlights important instructions. You have to follow these instructions to avoid malfunctions.  This symbol highlights URLs for further information. The URL itself is shown in blue.  Example: http://www.alliedvisiontec.com Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...

  • Page 11: Before Operation

    Note Please read through this manual carefully before operating the camera.  Caution Before operating any Allied Vision camera read the following safety instructions and ESD warnings.  Safety warnings Caution Electrostatic discharge The camera contains sensitive electronic components that can ...

  • Page 12: Conformity

    Conformity Conformity Allied Vision Technologies declares under its sole responsibility that all stan- dard cameras of the Bigeye that this declaration relates to, are in conformity with the following standard(s) or other normative document(s): • CE, following the provisions of 2004/108/EG directive •...

  • Page 13: Specifications

    Vertical binning (1 x 2), switchable gain (+6 dB), continuous mode (image acquisition with maximum frame rate), image-on-demand mode (triggered image acquisition), background correction With Allied Vision AcquireControl: BCG LUT, auto contrast, auto bright- ness, analyze multiple regions within image, real-time statistics and his- togram Digital interface IEEE 802.3 1000BASE-T (GigE Vision V1.2)
  • Page 14 20 ms. Use a sufficiently dimensioned power supply to avoid damage to the camera. For the DC signal, use cable lengths less than 30 m. Consider that the voltage drop increases with the cable length. Allied Vision (or your local dealer) provides suitable power supplies: http://www.alliedvisiontec.com/emea/products/ accessories.html...

  • Page 15: Bigeye P-132B/C Cool / Bigeye P-132B Nir Cool

    111 mm x 90 mm x 99 mm (L x W x H); incl. connectors, without tripod and lens Mass 1340 g (without lens) Operating temperature 0 °C ... 35 °C Regulations CE, RoHS (2011/65/EU) Table 4: Specification Bigeye P-132B/C Cool, Bigeye P-132B NIR Cool Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...
  • Page 16 20 ms. Use a sufficiently dimensioned power supply to avoid damage to the camera. For the DC signal, use cable lengths less than 30 m. Consider that the voltage drop increases with the cable length. Allied Vision (or your local dealer) provides suitable power supplies: http://www.alliedvisiontec.com/emea/products/ accessories.html...

  • Page 17: Bigeye P-629B Cool / P-629B Nir Cool

    + 12 V (+ 5 %), max. 2.8 A Dimensions 141.75 mm x 90 mm x 109 mm (L x W x H); incl. connectors, without tri- pod and lens Mass 1460 g (without lens) Table 5: Specification Bigeye P-629B Cool / P-629B NIR Cool Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...
  • Page 18 Specification Operating temperature 0 °C ... 35 °C (ambient) Regulations CE, RoHS (2011/65/EU) Table 5: Specification Bigeye P-629B Cool / P-629B NIR Cool Note The design and specifications for the products described above may change without notice.  Note The right polarization of the 12 V supply voltage has to be taken into consideration.

  • Page 19: Bigeye P-1100B/C Cool

    Vertical binning (1 x 2), switchable gain (+6 dB), continuous mode (image acquisition with maximum frame rate), image-on-demand mode (triggered image acquisition), background correction With Allied Vision AcquireControl: BCG LUT, auto contrast, auto brightness, analyze multiple regions (rectangular, circle, ring, line) within image, real-time statistics and histogram Digital interface IEEE 802.3 1000BASE-T (GigE Vision V1.2)
  • Page 20 20 ms. Use a sufficiently dimensioned power supply to avoid damage to the camera. For the DC signal, use cable lengths less than 30 m. Consider that the voltage drop increases with the cable length. Allied Vision (or your local dealer) provides suitable power supplies: http://www.alliedvisiontec.com/emea/products/ accessories.html...

  • Page 21: Spectral Sensitivity

    Specifications Spectral sensitivity Figure 1: Spectral sensitivity of Bigeye P-132B / P-132B Cool Figure 2: Spectral sensitivity of Bigeye P-132C Cool Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...
  • Page 22 Specifications Figure 3: Spectral sensitivity of Bigeye P-132B NIR Cool Figure 4: Spectral sensitivity of Bigeye P-629B Cool / P-629B NIR Cool Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...
  • Page 23 Specifications Figure 5: Spectral sensitivity of Bigeye P-1100B Cool Figure 6: Spectral sensitivity of Bigeye P-1100C Cool Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...

  • Page 24: Camera Dimensions

    Camera dimensions Camera dimensions Bigeye P-132B Figure 7: Camera dimensions: Bigeye P-132B (front/side/back) Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...
  • Page 25 Camera dimensions Color Description Camera is operational Image-on-demand mode Power Green Power indicator Exposure input activity Frame output activity Table 7: Description of LEDs: Bigeye P-132B Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...

  • Page 26: Bigeye P-132B/C Cool And P-132B Nir Cool

    Camera dimensions Bigeye P-132B/C Cool and P-132B NIR Cool Figure 8: Camera dimensions: Bigeye P-132B/C Cool and P-132B NIR Cool (front/side/back) Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...
  • Page 27 If this LED is permanently lit during operation, the temperature of the camera might be too high: Check the ambient temperature and ensure unhindered air flow. Table 8: Description of LEDs: Bigeye P-132B/C Cool and P-132B NIR Cool Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...

  • Page 28: Bigeye P-629B Cool / Nir Cool

    Camera dimensions Bigeye P-629B Cool / NIR Cool Figure 9: Camera dimensions: Bigeye P-629B Cool / NIR Cool (front/side/back) Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...
  • Page 29 If this LED is permanently lit during operation, the temperature of the camera might be too high: Check the ambient temperature and ensure unhindered air flow. Table 9: Description of LEDs: Bigeye P-629B Cool and Bigeye P-629B NIR Cool Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...

  • Page 30: Bigeye P-1100B/C Cool

    Camera dimensions Bigeye P-1100B/C Cool Figure 10: Camera dimensions: Bigeye P-1100B/C Cool (front/side/back) Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...
  • Page 31 0 °C. If this LED is permanently lit during operation, the temperature of the camera might be too high: Check the ambient temperature and ensure unhindered air flow. Table 10: Description of LEDs: Bigeye P-1100B/C Cool Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...

  • Page 32: Camera Interfaces

    Serial control Mode input 12V, 20 mA max. Internal pull-up resistor Trigger input 12V, 20 mA max. Optocoupler input 12 Exposure 12V, 20 mA max. Optocoupler output output Table 11: Camera I/O connector pin assignment (Bigeye P-132B/Cool/NIR Cool) Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...
  • Page 33 5 V (at no load) Active low output 15 Frame-sync 5 V (at no load) Active low output Table 12: Camera I/O connector pin assignment (Bigeye P-629B Cool/NIR Cool) Bigeye P-1100B Cool / P-1100C Cool Pin Signal Direction Level Description...

  • Page 34: Power Supply (Pin 1-4)

    15 Frame-sync 5 V (at no load) Active low output Table 13: Camera I/O connector pin assignment (Bigeye P-1100B/C Cool) Power supply (pin 1-4) Bigeye P-132B/C (NIR) Cool The camera requires 12 V +5% at a current capacity of maximum 2.8 A.

  • Page 35: Mode Input (Pin 9)

    4 – 5 minutes is needed. After switching to image-on-demand mode a break of at least 635 ms has to occur before the first image exposure can take place.  continuous operation (cooling off) Input pin 9: open (or TTL high) Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...

  • Page 36: Trigger Input (Pin 10, 11)

    The current through the optocoupler (1) should be greater than 1 mA and not exceed 20 mA: 5 - 2V (HIGH) Active exposure (only valid during IOD mode) < 0.8 V (LOW) Inactive (falling edge starts frame output) Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...

  • Page 37: Exposure Output (Pin 12, 13)

    20 mA (at 12 V, resistance of the optocoupler: R  ). Bigeye P-132 The exposure output indicates the active exposure time of the sensor. Usage: synchronize an external strobe light source. At the end of the exposure this output stays active approx. 76 μs (1 line) longer than the real exposure.

  • Page 38: Line-Sync Output (Pin 14)

    Line-sync output (pin 14) 6 μs Bigeye P-132 5 Vss (no-load operation) 76.19 μs Figure 13: Line-sync output (Bigeye P-132) The line-sync output (active low) supplies approx. 1200 mV at a termination with 75 . Bigeye P-629 5 μs 5 Vss (no-load operation) 658.286 μs / 390.095 μs...

  • Page 39: Frame-Sync Output (Pin 15)

    The frame-sync output (active low) supplies approx. 1200 mV at a termination with 75 . Bigeye P-629 The frame-sync output becomes active at the beginning of an image output. 1 line = 658.286 μs (390.095 μs for binning mode) 5 Vss (no-load operation) 1379.767 ms / 2096 lines...

  • Page 40: Pin Assignment Of Gigabit Ethernet Connector

    Camera interfaces To control the Bigeye cameras use the Allied Vision AcquireControl software or any GigE Vision V1.2 compliant third-party software package. Pin assignment of Gigabit Ethernet connector The Bigeye P-008/032 cameras are equipped with a 1000Base-T Ethernet inter- face (RJ-45 connector). The data connection between camera and PC can be established via a standard patch cable of category 5e or better, using a 1000Base-T compatible Ethernet adapter card..
  • Page 41 On and the timer has to be enabled via ExposureMode  in order to control the exposure. Note Bigeye P-629: The timer has to be enabled via the ExposureMode feature in order to control the exposure. Set the  TriggerMode feature to On if the electromechanical shutter operation is needed, otherwise it will stay permanently open.

  • Page 42: Mode Setting

    Image-on-demand mode. Exposure control via ExposureTime and DarkTime features (ExposureMode = Timed) or externally (ExposureMode = Off). Continuous mode with fixed exposure time and frame rate. Bigeye P-132x Cool Image-on-demand mode. Peltier cooling active. Exposure control via ExposureTime and DarkTime features (ExposureMode = Timed) or externally (ExposureMode = Off).

  • Page 43: Binning

    Peltier cooling inactive (power saving). Table 16: TriggerMode Binning Each Bigeye camera variant supports one distinct binning configuration (either 1 x 2 or 2 x 2) that can be switched on or off. This is controlled using the GigE Vision features BinningVertical and BinningHorizontal from the ImageSizeControl branch of the feature tree.
  • Page 44 Camera interfaces AnalogControls Feature Description Gain This feature controls the selected gain as a raw integer value. Table 18: Camera standard feature: AnalogControls Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...

  • Page 45: Appendix

    Appendix Appendix GigE Vision feature description for Bigeye cameras DeviceInformation Feature Description DeviceModeName Name of the attached camera model. DeviceID Unique 32 bit device ID of the camera model. DeviceUserID User ID field. This field can be accessed (R/W) by the user to store an additional device identifier.

  • Page 46: Imagesizecontrol

    (height) of the image. DecimationHorizontal Not applicable DecimationVertical Not applicable PixelFormat List with all available pixel formats of the camera, e.g. MONO12. TestImageSelector Enables or disables the internal test image generator of the camera. Table 20: Camera standard feature: ImageSizeControl Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...

  • Page 47: Acquisitioncontrol

    This feature is used to set the Dark time, in ms. DarkTimeGranularity Dark time granularity. Table 21: Camera standard feature: AcquisitionControl AnalogControls Feature Description Gain This feature controls the selected gain as a raw integer value. Table 22: Camera standard feature: AnalogControls Bigeye Technical Manual V2.4.0...

  • Page 48: Cameraspecialfeatures

    Appendix CameraSpecialFeatures This feature is not available for Bigeye P-1100B/C Cool and Bigeye P-132B. Feature Description CameraTemperatureState Camera temperature state. 0 = The camera temperature is OK. 1 = The camera temperature is outside the optimum range. CameraTemperatureStateReg Camera temperature state register.

  • Page 49: Index

    Exposure control ........40 Exposure output ......32 External GND ......... 32 External Power........32 Specifications Bigeye P-1100B/C Cool ......19 Bigeye P-132B........13 Bigeye P-132B NIR Cool......15 Frame-sync output......33 Bigeye P-132B/C Cool ......15 Bigeye P-629B Cool ......17 Bigeye P-629B NIR Cool......
  • Page 50 Spectral sensitivity........21 Bigeye P-1100B Cool ......23 Bigeye P-1100C Cool ......23 Bigeye P-132B ........21 Bigeye P-132B Cool......21 Bigeye P-132B NIR Cool ......22 Bigeye P-132C ........21 Bigeye P-132C Cool ......21 Bigeye P-629B Cool......22 Bigeye P-629B NIR Cool ......22 styles .............

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