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PCE Instruments HSC 1660 User Manual

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PCE Americas Inc.
PCE Instruments UK Ltd.
711 Commerce Way
Units 12/13
Suite 8
Southpoint Business Park
Jupiter
Ensign way
FL-33458
Hampshire / Southampton
USA
United Kingdom, SO31 4RF
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Tel: (0) 2380 98703 0
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HiBestViewer User Guide
High-Speed Camera
PCE-HSC 1660
PCE-HSC 1660

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  • Page 1 PCE Americas Inc. PCE Instruments UK Ltd. 711 Commerce Way Units 12/13 Suite 8 Southpoint Business Park Jupiter Ensign way FL-33458 Hampshire / Southampton United Kingdom, SO31 4RF From outside US: +1 From outside UK: +44 Tel: (561) 320-9162 Tel: (0) 2380 98703 0...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Chapter 1 Getting Started/Overview ................3 Acquire View ....................3 Strip View ...................... 4 Working View ....................5 Chapter 2 Install HiBestViewer ..................7 Installation Environment ................7 Install HiBestViewer Software Suite .............. 7 Install High Speed Camera driver ..............9 Uninstall HiBestViewer Software Suite ............
  • Page 3 Copyright All rights reserved. Without the prior permission of the company, no part of this user guide may be reproduced, adapted, transcribed, or copied. The trademarks and product names mentioned in this user guide are legally registered to their respective companies. The usage of this user guide is described for “High-Speed Camera”.

  • Page 4: Chapter 1 Getting Started/Overview

    HiBestViewer is Software Suite applied for PC control, and the feature descriptions are as follows: HiBestViewer is PC control software, also the accompanying software to the “High-Speed Camera” PCE-HSC 1660 (Except others are not supported by HiBestViewer). HiBestViewer, Windows Program, should be installed in Windows 7 and latest Windows OS version or above.

  • Page 5: Strip View

    Figure 1-1 Acquire View Strip View Help user view a series of stored images, and Strip View functions are as follows: Quickly browse all of series images in order to find out the key images segment. 2.1.1 Provide image thumbnails and display a series of image thumbnails at one time for user to view images.

  • Page 6: Working View

    Figure 1-2 Strip View Working View Help user play back a series of stored images, and Working View functions are as follows: Versatile play back: 3.1.1 Play forward. 3.1.2 Play backward. 3.1.3 Play one step forward. 3.1.4 Play one step backward. 3.1.5 Back to the start point.
  • Page 7 Figure 1-3 Working View...

  • Page 8: Chapter 2 Install Hibestviewer

    Chapter 2 Install HiBestViewer Installation Environment PC Hardware Equipments: 1.1.1 CPU speed should be more than or equal to 2.0 GHz, and Intel 64-bit CPU is recommended. 1.1.2 At least one or more USB 3.0 port, and Intel USB 3.0 host controller is recommended.
  • Page 9 Figure 2-2 Once installed HiBestViewer Setup (If selecting “Repair HiBestViewer”, it will be re-installed; if selecting “Remove HiBestViewer”, it will be removed.) User follow prompts on the setup screen to complete installation. When HiBestViewer is installed, HiBestViewer shortcut will be shown on the desktop (See Figure 2-3), and also Windows Programs will create a HiBestViewer Program Folder (See Figure 2-4).

  • Page 10: Install High Speed Camera Driver

    Figure 2-4 HiBestViewer Program Folder in Windows Programs Attention! Do not install HiBestViewer in “Windows” or “Program Files” or “Program Files (x86)”. Because in these folders, it is not allowed to create folders or files unless user owns “administrator priviledge”, this restriction will cause the main functions of HiBestViewer out of work.
  • Page 11 Figure 2-5 Uninstall Program in HiBestViewer Program Folder Figure 2-6 “Programs and Features” in Control Panel...

  • Page 12: Chapter 3 Acquire View, Capture Series Images

    Acquire View at the beginning. If the driver has been installed and at least one “High-Speed Camera” PCE-HSC 1660 directly connects to PC, then user will see Figure 3-1. It is shown that HiBestViewer detects “High-Speed Camera” and automatically selects it as “controlled target”. Therefore, in Figure 3-1, Acquire View shows the sensor type of “High-Speed Camera”...
  • Page 13 On the contrary, if fail to detect camera, then user will see Figure 3-2, all the information are blank. It means that all options are disabled. Prevew function cannot work, either. Figure 3-2 Fail to detect “High-Speed Camera” PCE-HSC 1660...

  • Page 14: Acquire View Function Description

    HiBestViewer can automatically detect “if High-Speed Camera is connected”. Therefore, if user connects “High-Speed Camera” after HiBestViewer running, then it will take approximately 10 ~ 20 seconds to be well aware of “High-Speed Camera”. It takes times since Windows needs to enforce all USB standard procedures for a new connected USB device.
  • Page 15 Record Settings: See Figure 3-4 3.2.1 Max Frame: It shows that the maximum of images can be stored. It is an information field and cannot be revised. Its value depends on “current total available memory capacity” and “memory capacity for one image”. Therefore, this value will change if total available memory capacity is changed.
  • Page 16 3.2.4.3 Setting value is n% and n > 0, n < 100. It means that before trigger, n% images already are kept in the memory. Therefore, the system will keep capturing images and put captured images into memory until reach Record Frames value * (100% - n %) or user forces to stop the operation.
  • Page 17 Figure 3-5 Trigger Settings Bar section Preview: Click “Preview button” to start, a series of images will be sent back to PC through USB and displayed in the Preview Window. Also, “Preview Progressing Information” on the bottom of Preview Window shows the received number of image frames, passed time, (Unit is second, and accurate to 2 decimal places) and frame rate (fps) Note: Received Frame Number is the actual number of images sent back to PC from camera;...
  • Page 18 Figure 3-6 Preview Window Adjust the display of images in Preview Window: User can adjust the way of images displayed in Preview Window. Acquire View currently supports two display modes: 3.4.1 “Fit”: Fit to Window, based on the size for Preview Window, automatically be adjusted by the program.
  • Page 19 Figure 3-7 Display Mode and Zoom In / Zoon Out Stop “Preview” and “Store a series of images”: If user starts Preview, “Stop button” will be enabled (See Figure 3-8). 3.5.1 Stop Preview: Once click “Stop button”, Preview will be stopped immediately, and show the message, “Stop grab image”.
  • Page 20 Figure 3-8 “Trigger and Stop Button” in the process of Previewing Figure 3-9 Click “Stop Button” to Stop Preview...
  • Page 21 Figure 3-10 Click “Stop Button” to stop Preview and Trigger Trigger: If user starts Preview, (See Figure 3-8), user can click “Trigger button” any time or use “extermal triggering signal” to store a series of images. Once being triggerd, the description is as below: 3.6.1 Follow the trigger position to store a series of images in the memory (Please refer to 3.2.4 Trigger Settings for the...
  • Page 22 Figure 3-11 User Interface in the process of Trigger Figure 3-12 User Interface when complete Trigger process...

  • Page 23: Chapter 4 Strip View, Browse And View Images

    Chapter 4 Strip View, Browse and View Images This chapter explains how to use Strip View in HiBestViewer to browse and view a series of stored images. Besides, user can select a range of data to set up as A-B Play range. How to switch to Strip View Three ways to switch to Strip View: Use mouse to select Strip View on user interface (See Figure 4-1).

  • Page 24: Strip View Static Information

    1.3.2 The system will open a “Windows API” (See Figure 4-3), and user can select the file to open. If user opens the file successfully, (File format should be fit in with the defined format by HiBestViewer) the system will automatically switch to Strip View.

  • Page 25: Strip Viewauxiliary

    of image, for indicating the image is signed. Frame number is corresponded to each image thumbnail on the left corner (See Figure 4-4). The sorting rule of frame number is as below: 2.5.1 The image frame number is 0 at the trigger position. 2.5.2 Frame number, a series of images before trigger, is negative.
  • Page 26 Figure 4-5 Strip View Auxiliary If want to operate the auxiliary function on Icon Bar, user can use mouse to click the corresponding icon (See Figure 4-6). Figure 4-6 Icon Bar View Auxiliary Auxiliary functions on Icon Bar are as follows: Frame Ticks: The fourth icon is counted from the left.
  • Page 27 Figure 4-7 Frame Ticks Time Line: The third icon is counted from the left. Use mouse to click this icon to open or close Time Line. When Time Line is opened, it will show Time Line over the Scroll Bar, and Time Line icon will be framed by blue lines (See Figure 4-8).
  • Page 28 the fourth decimal place) by selecting Time Align icon (See Figure 4-9). User can also switch unit to frame number by selecting Frame Align icon (See Figure 4-10). Figure 4-9 Time Align Figure 4-10 Frame Align Marker: The fifth icon is counted from the left. User can use mouse to click Maker icon to switch comment on image thumbnails.
  • Page 29 Figure 4-11 Marker Top Info: The sixth icon is counted from the left. User can use mouse to click Top Info icon to open or close the display of A-B Play range. A-B Play range means that user can specify the range for a series of images.
  • Page 30 user selects a series of image thumbnails (not only select a single image), the system will only show the last selected image when opening Preview instead of showing several images. Figure 4-13 Preview Image Scroll Bar: Use mouse to click or drag Scroll Bar to scroll series image thumbnails, and user can move the view across all image thumbnails.

  • Page 31: Save A Series Of Images As General-Purpose Video File

    Figure 4-15 Zoom In/Zoom Out Save a series of images as general-purpose video file After successfully opening a series of images data, user can save them as general-purpose video file or bitmap files. It can be saved as MPEG2 video file or MP4 video file, supported by the current system. A series of images also can be saved as serial bitmap files (Microsoft bmp file format).
  • Page 32 “Save as User Interface”： 4.2.1 “Save as User Interface” is similar to “Windows Save As User Interface”. Therefore, User can select the path and file name on this interface (See Figure 4-18). Figure 4-18 “Save As” User Interface 4.2.2 File type: User can select file type on user interface based on requirements.

  • Page 33: Context Menu Function Within Image Thumbnails

    4.2.3 Select “Save Options” (See Figure 4-20), there are three options described as below: 4.2.3.1 Save Entire Video: Select this option if want to convert and save all of series image data as another file type. 4.2.3.2 Save Sub-Range: Select this option if want to convert and save part of a series of images as another file type.
  • Page 34 Context Menu functions are described as follows: Set A and Set B: Set A-B Play range (See Figure 4-22). 5.1.1 The default A-B Play range includes all images. In other words, A point is the first image frame while B point is the last image frame.
  • Page 35 thumbnails when clicking “Set Selection As Range”. Figure 4-23 Set selected images as A-B Play Range Set Range Selected: All image thumbnails are selected in A-B Play range. After clicking this menu item, user will see all image thumbnails highlighted in A-B Play range (See Figure 4-24). Figure 4-24 Select all images in A-B Play Range Set As Zero: Set frame number and relative time of selected image to 0, and the system will revise frame number and relative time of...

  • Page 36: Switch From Strip View To Working View

    Figure 4-25 Set As Zero Save As…: User can save a series of images as general-purpose video file or bitmap files. Please refer to the section 4 in this chapter for the detailed description. Switch from Strip View to Working View User can switch Strip View to Working View by double clicking within image thumbnails.

  • Page 37: Chapter 5 Working View, Further Examinng And Processing

    Chapter 5 Working View, Further Examinng and Processing This chapter explains how to use Working View in HiBestViewer to examine and process stored images. How to switch to Working View Two ways to switch to Working View. It is highly recommended to take “switch from Strip View to Working View”...

  • Page 38: Play Control

    Figure 5-2 Switch from Strip View to Working View Play Control Play control is classified as five parts: (1) Play Control Buttons (2) Play Status Information (3) Play Progress Bar (4) Play Frame Rate & Play Step Interval (5) Play Display Windows & Display Settings (See Figure 5-3).
  • Page 39 User can use these Play Control buttons for fine tuning play back and display image in order to further examine the image data and correlation among a series of images. Functions of each part are described as follows: There are eight Play Control Buttons shown as below: 2.1.1 (Reverse Play Button): Use mouse to click this button to make images display backward sequentially from Play...
  • Page 40 There are five Play Status Information as follows: 2.2.1 Play Speed: The number of images will be displayed per second, see Figure 5-4 (fps  frame per second). 2.2.2 Play Head position: This information is represented by Frame Number and Relative Time. Time unit is second and accurate to the fourth decimal place (See Figure 5-4).
  • Page 41 functions will not work. For letting play back functions work, user can adjust A-B Play range or use mouse to click “Move to A Point Button” (or “Move to B Point Button”) to make Play Head move into A-B Play Range. 2.3.2.2 (A-B Play Range): There are two markers on Play Progress Bar.
  • Page 42 Figure 5-5 Play Speed Slider and the Corresponding Play Speed 2.4.2 Set Play Step: Use mouse to click Play Step ComboBox to set Play Step (See Figure 5-6). Figure 5-6 Set Play Step Play Display Windows & Display Settings: When play back is going, user will see what is playing in Play Display Window.

  • Page 43: Other Functions In Woking View

    Figure 5-7 Play Display Window & Display Settings Other functions in Woking View Other functios are supported: (1) Set a specified image as frame 0 (2) Set A point in A-B Play range (3) Set B point in A-B Play range (4) Add/Remove Bookmark &...
  • Page 44 Set Play Head position as A point in A-B Play range: Use mouse to click Set A button, and the system will set Play Head position as A point in A-B Play range (See Figure 5-9). Figure 5-9 Set Play Head as A point in A-B Play range Set Play Head position as B point in A-B Play range: Use mouse to click “Set B button”, and the system will set Play Head position as B point in A-B Play range (See Figure 5-10).
  • Page 45 Figure 5-12 A Bookmark is removed on Play Head position Move to Previous Bookmark: Use mouse to click button. If there is a Bookmark before Play Head, the system will move Play Head to previous Bookmark. Nothing will happen if there is no Bookmark before Play Head.
  • Page 46 Figure 5-13 Add/Modify/Remove Comment Move to Previous Comment: Use mouse to click button, and move to previous comment. If there is a comment before Play Head, the system will move Play Head to the marked position and the comment will be shown on Comment Editor Area. Nothing will happen if there is no comment before Play Head.
  • Page 47 3.11.2 Use mouse to click anywhere on Play Display Window to move Cross Point to the position which mouse clicks, and its coordinate value will change to the new position. Figure 5-14 Display the Coordinate of the Specified Position...

  • Page 48: Chater 6 Hardware Installation

    Chater 6 Hardware Installation 1. Installing the Camera Install a PCI express x1 Gen2 host adapter USB3.0 Card, if there is no USB3.0 ports of PC. (Option) PCI Express USB 3.0 Card Install PCI Express USB 3.0 Card into PCI Express Slot, be operated by professionals.
  • Page 49 PCE-HSC 1660, tighten thumbscrews locks for a secure connection. Connect the USB Type A Head of the USB 3.0 Cable to the USB 3.0 Type A port of PC. High-Speed Camera PCE-HSC 1660 USB 3.0 Cable, Left Type A Connector, Right Micro-B Connector.
  • Page 50 The USB 3.0 Micro-B Port with two thumbscrew holes. The USB 3.0 Micro-B Cable with two thumbscrews. USB 3.0 Type A Port of PC (USB 3.0 Blue Connectors)
  • Page 51 The Diagram of the High-Speed Camera PCE-HSC 1660 System Power Indicator Green LED now is lighting. Run the Software Suite of the Camera in the PC. Take off the cover of the lens. To get better image, please turn the aperture and the...
  • Page 52 Press the button of the external trigger cable to Capture Image. Notes: Please use a USB 3.0 Cable, 3 meter maximum. The High-Speed Camera PCE-HSC 1660 is compatible with all C-mount lenses with respect to imager size. The photo marked * is reference only.

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