Introduction; Software Concept - Matrix Vision mvBlueFOX3 Technical Manual

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7 Introduction

The mvBlueFOX3 is a compact USB 3.0 camera which is compliant to the brand new vision standard USB3 Vision
(p. 161). The mvBlueFOX3 offers
• a wide range of CMOS sensors,
• high frame rates,
• I/Os suitable for industrial applications, and
• wide range of resolutions.
The image memory of the camera enables a high-speed-buffer mode (a.k.a. burst mode) which writes images faster
in the camera's memory as they are transferred. With this mode, image losses are a thing of the past.
The mvBlueFOX3 is ideally suited for all classical areas of machine vision and especially for applications in the
medicine and microscopy area. The hardware capabilities can be teamed with MATRIX VISION's machine vision
library mvIMPACT or any other third party libraries which are compliant to USB3 Vision.

7.1 Software concept

The mvBlueFOX3 is a USB3 Vision (p. 161) compliant device, using a GenICam (p. 155) XML-file describing the
device capabilities. Within this XML-file it uses the names, units, data types etc. recommended by the SFNC (p. 159)
to describe the devices features. Whenever custom features have been added to the mvBlueFOX3 firmware these
can clearly be spotted by the leading 'mv' in the features name. The device can communicate with every third party
compliant USB3 Vision (p. 161) capture driver that can interpret GenICam (p. 155) XML-files.
The following figure shows the software concept of MATRIX VISION's camera devices:
Figure 1: mvBlueFOX3-1
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