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Stettbacher Signal Processing Neugutstrasse 54 CH-8600 Dübendorf Phone: +41 43 299 57 23 Fax: +41 43 299 57 25 E-Mail: cam@stettbacher.ch O-3000 Camera Series User’s Guide Version 2.10 2015-08-10 Abstract: This user’s guide highlights the camera features and gives an overview over the device’s basic functions.
This user guide will highlight the camera features and give you an overview over the device’s basic functions. In addition for programmers or developers, it is a starting point and will reference to all necessary resources. Please contact Stettbacher Signal Processing (SSP) if you have questions. 2 Camera Features Technical data are specified in [2].
O-3000 Camera Series Parameters: model_id color_mode acquisition temperature model_name optical_format color_weights statistics hw_version pixel_size mirroring sw_version area data xml_version window serial_number shutter_type 2.1.2 Streaming and Snapshots There are two possibilities to get image data from the camera device: single image snapshots or a continuous video stream.
O-3000 Camera Series The latter two modes time and sensitivity are settings which can be adjusted independently and are part of the manual exposure mode. Exposure time can be set at least to 16 microseconds and moreover the sensor’s gain (sensitivity) can be set to a value between 0 and 100 percent. To adjust these values you can send appropriate XML commands.
– Flat micro-B connector on board-level devies. – Standing mini-B connector on devices with housing. – Please contact SSP if you prefer a standing mini-B connector on board-level devices. Supply voltage output: – A supply voltage output is available for external use on board-level cameras.
O-3000 Camera Series 2.3 Software Interfaces Note: The O-3000 cameras are no webcams. They do not support the UVC standard used in plug- and-play consumer stuff. Instead the O-3000 cameras offer a simple and flexible interface, optimized for industrial vision. There are two different levels, allowing access to the camera.
O-3000 Camera Series 3 Install Package The install package, available from the download section of the O-3000 website (see [1]), contains the O-3000 driver and a demo application to operate the O-3000 cameras with a PC (Linux or Win- dows) or a Mac. The install package also includes the entire source code of the driver and the demo application.
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O-3000 Camera Series Figure 1: System overview. The O-3000 camera series device comes with a driver package hiding the complexity concerning USB communication [5] (based on the open-source project libusb) and therefore can be seen as the appli- cation programming interface (API). The whole package consists of three different parts to illustrate a working example and can be modified under terms of GPL and LGPL: The O-3000 camera driver (binaries and C sources).
O-3000 Camera Series 4 Literature and References [1] Stettbacher Signal Processing (2015). Website for the O-3000 products: http://www.open-cam.ch. [2] Stettbacher Signal Processing (2013). “O-3000 Camera Series - Data Sheet”, Stettbacher Signal Processing, version 1.20, 2013-09-09 (or later). [3] Stettbacher Signal Processing (2014). “O-3000 Camera Series - First Steps”, Stettbacher Signal Processing, version 1.00, 2014-09-22 (or later).
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