Acquisition Control; Image Acquisition Features - Smartek UCC User Manual

5.4 Acquisition Control

The following section is about controlling the image acquisition of SMARTEK Vision digital cameras. It
contains a detailed description about the different acquisition modes, how to control external triggering and
how the image acquisition rate can be limited. Table 29 gives a brief overview about all features that are
available to control the image acquisition in the cameras.

Image Acquisition Features

AcquisitionMode
AcquisitionStart
AcquisitionStop
AcquisitionAbort
AcquisitionFrameCount
AcquisitionBurstFrameCount
AcquisitionFrameRate
Trigger Features
TriggerMode
TriggerSoftware
TriggerSource
TriggerActivation
TriggerDelay
5.4.1 Image Acquisition Features
The Image Acquisition Features chapter describes features related to image acquisition. An Acquisition is
defined as the capture of a sequence of one or many Frames or Images . The Frames of an Acquisition can
optionally be grouped in smaller Bursts that are triggered individually.
Short description
Defines the number of frames to be captured. Three options are
available:
Continuous
SingleFrame
MultiFrame
Start acquisition
Stop acquisition
Abort acquisition
Number of frames to acquire in MultiFrame acquisition mode
Number of frames to acquire for each FrameBurstStart trigger
Controls the acquisition rate (in Hz) at which the frames are
captured
Short description
Enable/Disable the trigger mode. Two options are available:
On
Off
Generate a software trigger
Select the source that fires a trigger signal:
Line1: Physical Input Line 1
Line2: Physical Input Line 2
Software
Define the clock edge of the input signal for activate triggering
Rising Edge
Falling Edge
Specify the delay in microseconds (
signals.
Table 29: Camera features for image acquisition control
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