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2018 Ver 1.0
POLLUX
PX01M90MGE / PX05M23MGE

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  • Page 1 User Manual 2018 Ver 1.0 POLLUX PX01M90MGE / PX05M23MGE...
  • Page 2 The material contained in this manual consists of information that is proprietary to NIP Co., Ltd. and may only be used by the purchasers of the product and NIP Co., Ltd. authorized distributors or resellers. NIP Co., Ltd. makes no warranty for...
  • Page 3 Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera About NIP Co., Ltd. Founded in 1984, NIP is a Machine solution company that has been coexisting along with the history of the Korean machine vision system. Our company provides cameras, interface, library, machine vision components which is part of the optical machine system and technical service.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Table of Contents 1 Introduction ..........................5 1.1 Key Features ........................5 1.2 Camera Specifications ....................6 2 Mechanical ..........................7 2.1 Mechanical Specifications ....................8 2.2 Lens Adapters (With Mount) ................... 8 2.3 Power Connector ......................
  • Page 5 Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 4.9.7 Image Reverse ..................... 39 4.9.8 HDR Cycling Mode ....................40 4.9.9 Test Pattern ......................41 4.10 I/O Electric Feature ....................... 42 4.10.1 Line0 Opto-isolated Input Circuit ................ 42 4.10.2 Line1 Opto-isolated Output Circuit ..............43 4.10.3 Line2 Configurable Bi-direction Circuit ...............

  • Page 6: Introduction

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 1 Introduction The Pollux GigE (GigE Vision) series is an image capturing device capable of real- time transmission of uncompressed image through a gigabit Ethernet interface. Remote image capturing and camera control, for example, the operating mode and the image parameters adjustment, are supported by client software.

  • Page 7: Camera Specifications

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 1.2 Camera Specifications Specifications PX01M90MGE PX05M23MGE Sensor OnSemi Python 1300 Sony IMX264 Sensor Size 1/2” 2/3” Resolution 1280 x 1024 2448 x 2048 Pixel Size 3.45μm 4.8μm Frame Rate 90fps 23.5fps Dynamic Range >60dB >60dB >40dB...

  • Page 8: Mechanical

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 2 Mechanical Camera housings are made with high precision from machined aluminum. Mechanical drawings are shown below Figure 1. Figure 1. Mechanical drawings Page 7 of 56 Manual 1.0...

  • Page 9: Mechanical Specifications

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 2.1 Mechanical Specifications Summary of mechanical specifications are shown below Table 3. Specification Description 29 mm x 29 mm x 42 mm (Except for Mount) Size Weight 68 g (no lens) Sides : 4 x M2 / 3 x M3 Mounting Holes 6-pin threaded Hirose Power Connector...

  • Page 10: Power Connector

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 2.3 Power Connector The Pollux GigE Vision cameras powered using a 3.3W@12VDC, 5-15V DC power source. The power connector is shown in Figure 3, and the pinout is shown in Table 4. •...

  • Page 11: Camera Installation And Configuration

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 3 Camera Installation and Configuration 3.1 Installing the Camera Steps: 1. Unpack the camera package and install the lens (optional) to the camera body by rotating the lens clockwise. 2. Fix the camera to the desired position. 3.

  • Page 12: Network Configuration

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 3.2.1 Network Configuration Steps: • Click Start → Control Panel → Network and Internet → Network and Sharing Center → Change adapter settings, select the network connection and click Properties. • Double click the TCP protocol, and you can set select Obtain an IP address automatically.

  • Page 13: Camera Ip Configuration

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 1) Click Start → Control Panel → Hardware and Sound → Device Manager → Network adapters, double click the NIC to enter its properties interface. 2) Click Advanced tab. 3) Select Jumbo Frame from the property list and select the value as 9KB MTU.
  • Page 14 Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera processes are accessing the camera. You need to stop the live view and disconnect the camera, or terminate other processes to access the camera. • If the camera status is Not Reachable, the network of the camera is exceptional and you should check the camera network settings.

  • Page 15: Camera Configuration

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 2) Select the camera to be edited and click button. 3) In the pop-up window, you can edit the IP address of the camera. For Static IP type, you can also edit the subnet mask and default gateway. Figure 7.
  • Page 16 Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Figure 8. Main User Interface of the Client Software Area Name Description Function modules including File, View, Camera, Menu Bar Settings, Tools, and Help. Control the image of live view including Control Toolbar starting/stopping live view, zooming in/out, recording, capturing, etc.
  • Page 17 Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Note: You can switch the user level as Beginner, Expert or Guru which displays different camera attributes. For Guru Level, it provides the most comprehensive camera attributes for professional use. Here we take Guru Level as an example. 4.

  • Page 18: Setting Via Menu Bar

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera • Counter and Timer Control: In the Counter and Timer Control attribute, you can set the counter and timer function. It can count the triggering signal and control the exposure according to the user needs. •...

  • Page 19: Functions

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera different camera models. Refer to the actual user interface and the user manual of the camera for detailed information. 4 Functions 4.1 Device Control 4.1.1 Name Modification Run client software and click Device Control. You will see the device type, the version information, the device serial number and so on.

  • Page 20: Image Format And Frame Rate

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Figure 12. Device Information 4.2 Image Format and Frame Rate Support different image format and customized ROI setting. The specified ROI will increase the image frame rate in some models. Note: The following figures are for reference only. The actual format depends on the camera’s supported formats.

  • Page 21: Frame Rate

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Figure 13. Pixel Format Setting 4.2.2 Frame Rate The network transmission bandwidth, pixel format and output ROI resolution decides the maximum camera frame rate. Please refer to the frame rate formula when setting ROI. Figure 14.

  • Page 22: Roi Setting

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 4.2.3 ROI Setting The following three factors decide the maximum camera frame rate: • Frame Readout time: the shorter the image height, the less the readout time and the higher the frame rate. •...

  • Page 23: Global Shutter And Rolling Shutter

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Note: For more information about bandwidth and Payload Size, please see the chapter of Transmission Layer Control. 4.3 Global Shutter and Rolling Shutter 4.3.1 Global Shutter Support global shutter camera. Exposure starts and ends in each line simultaneously.
  • Page 24 Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera for the data readout is the same, but as shown in Figure 3-11, different in the exposure starting time. Figure 17. Rolling Shutter • The figure of rolling shutter’s signal readout under internal trigger mode Figure 18.

  • Page 25: Image Acquisition And Transmission

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera • The figure of rolling shutter’s signal readout under the external trigger mode Figure 19. External Trigger Mode 4.4 Image Acquisition and Transmission Image acquisition mode is divided into internal trigger mode and external trigger mode.

  • Page 26: External Trigger Signal And Working Mode

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Figure 20. Internal Trigger Mode 4.4.2 External Trigger Signal and Working Mode The signal for the camera to acquire external trigger signal includes the software trigger signal and the signal from external level. Under the external trigger signal mode, the camera can output images according to single frame mode, burst mode, PWM mode and any other working modes.
  • Page 27 Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera ■ Hardware external trigger mode Select Trigger Source and Choose Hardware to switch to the hardware external trigger status. Available parameter setting of input signal from hardware external trigger: (1) Trigger edge selection Selecting Rising Edge/Falling Edge under the external signal is available.

  • Page 28: Strobe Output

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera (3) Triggering Anti-jitter The noise may exist in external trigger’s input signal and it may cause spurious triggering status if it goes into the camera. Thus the debounce is necessary. The debounce parameter can be set through Line Debouncer Time in the client software.
  • Page 29 Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Available Strobe parameter setting: (1) Polarity setting Tick Line Inverter to set polarity external trigger’s output signal, as shown in Figure26 Figure 26. Modifying Strobe Polarity (2) Strobe valid time As shown in Figure 27, Strobe is set to high level. When exposure starts, Strobe will output immediately.
  • Page 30 Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Figure 28. Strobe Output Delay Sequence Map (4) Strobe pre-trigger Support Strobe pre-trigger. Strobe signal is valid before the sensor exposure. This function can apply to the LED light that takes time to be stable after starting. It is necessary for a stable light source when capturing images.

  • Page 31: Acquisition Mode Under External Trigger

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 4.6 Acquisition Mode under External Trigger The acquisition mode under external trigger includes single frame mode, burst mode and PWM mode. The relationship among the input trigger signal, the Strobe output signal, the exposure time and readout time under different modes is as follows: (1) Single frame mode Expose only once when inputting one trigger signal.

  • Page 32: Overlap Exposure And Non-Overlap Exposure

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 4.7 Overlap Exposure and Non-Overlap Exposure To capture one frame of image includes the exposure and the readout. According to the overlap relationship between the exposure time and the readout time, cameras with different chips can be divided into overlap exposure and non-overlap exposure.

  • Page 33: Overlap Exposure

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 4.7.2 Overlap Exposure Overlap exposure refers to the overlap between the current frame exposure and the last frame readout. In other words, when the last frame starts to read out, the current frame starts to expose simultaneously. ●...

  • Page 34: Counter Control

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 4.8 Counter Control The counter can divide frequencies that from external inputting trigger signal. You can control the exposure depends on your expectations. Operation steps are as follows: As shown in Figure 36, click Acquisition Burst Frame Count and select Trigger Source.
  • Page 35 Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Figure 38. Configuring Line 2 Pin to Input In Counter and Timer Control, you should set Counter Value. Parameter value range is from 1 to 1023. Please see the red 2 in Figure 39. Figure 39.

  • Page 36: Imaging Parameter Setting

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 4.9 Imaging Parameter Setting 4.9.1 Exposure Time Please refer to the camera technical index to acquire the supported exposure time. The exposure control supports manual mode, single mode and continuous mode. When setting trigger mode, the single mode and continuous mode are invalid. When setting single mode or continuous mode, the exposure time will be limited by Auto Exposure Time Lower Limit and Auto Exposure Time Upper Limit.

  • Page 37: Region Setting Of Auto Functions

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Click Analog Control in the attribute list. Click Gain Auto. Select Gain Mode. Input available parameter in the numeric field and finish setting, as shown in Figure 42. Figure 42. Gain Control The noise increases when Gain increases.

  • Page 38: Look Up Table (Lut)

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Figure 43. AOI Setting Note: The available exposure region and the white balance region are the overlapped part of the setting region and the image region. If there is no overlap, the available region refers to the whole image. 4.9.4 Look Up Table (LUT) LUT is the grey level mapping table.

  • Page 39: Brightness

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera If the Gamma value is between 1 and 4, the image brightness increases while the brightness of the dark area decreases. Figure 45. Gamma Curve Click Analog Control in the attribute list. Select Gamma and Gamma Selector and set the parameter as shown in Figure 46.

  • Page 40: Image Reverse

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 4.9.7 Image Reverse The camera supports image horizontal mirroring. Open the mirroring function to gain the horizontal mirroring image. Click Image Format Control. Tick Reverse X (horizontal) or Reverse Y (vertical) according to your preference, as shown in Figure 47.

  • Page 41: Hdr Cycling Mode

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 4.9.8 HDR Cycling Mode The camera supports HDR cycling mode: the camera can capture images in cycling mode depending on four groups of parameters. You can configure exposure time and Gain independently by setting parameters in each group. Click Acquisition Control and choose Selector.

  • Page 42: Test Pattern

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 4.9.9 Test Pattern Click Image Format Control in the attribute list. Select Test Pattern and set the parameter. The default test pattern is OFF, as shown in Figure 51. Figure 51. Test Pattern The camera provides four test patterns, including Mono Bar, Checkboard, Oblique Mono Bar, Gradual Mono Bar as shown in the following four figures.

  • Page 43: I/O Electric Feature

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 4.10 I/O Electric Feature 4.10.1 Line0 Opto-isolated Input Circuit In controlling camera I/O, Line0 input circuit can be shown in Figure 54. Figure 54. Input Circuit Logic 0 input level: 0~1VDC (OPTO_IN pin) Logic 1 input level: 1.5~24VDC (OPTO_IN pin) Maximum input current: 25 mA Please make sure the input voltage is not from 1V to 1.5V as the electric status...

  • Page 44: Line1 Opto-Isolated Output Circuit

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 4.10.2 Line1 Opto-isolated Output Circuit In controlling I/O, Line1 output circuit can be shown in Figure 56. Figure 56. Input Logic Level Maximum Line1 output current: 25 mA Figure 57. Output Logic Level Opto-isolated output electric feature can be shown in Table 3-5 (The external voltage is 3.3 V and the external resistance is 1 K.) Parameter...

  • Page 45: Line2 Configurable Bi-Direction Circuit

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Table 8 shows the corresponding current and the parameter of output logic low level when the opto-isolated outputs the different external voltage and resistance. External Voltage External Resistor Output Current 3.3V 1KΩ 575mV 2.7mA 1KΩ...
  • Page 46 Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Figure 59. Inputting Logic Level Please connect to GND pin first to protect GPIO pin and then input voltage to Line2 pin. ② Configure Line2 to output pin The available maximum current is 25mA and the output impedance is 40Ω. When the environment temperature is 25 degree centigrade, the relationship among external voltage, impedance and the output low level can be shown in Table 9.

  • Page 47: Transport Layer Control

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Figure 60. Output Logic Level Parameter Symbol Value Output Logic Low Level 0.06us Output Logic High Level 0.016us Output Rising Time 0.03us Output Falling Time 0.28us Table 10. Output Electric Feature 4.11 Transport Layer Control 4.11.1 DHCP and Persistent IP The camera supports connecting with PC through DHCP or Persistent IP.

  • Page 48: Efficient Bandwidth And Setting

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Figure 61. The Transport Layer Control Interface 4.11.2 Efficient Bandwidth and Setting Packet Size and Packet Delay control the 1000M Ethernet’s actual bandwidth. The theoretical calculation of 1000M network port’s image loading bandwidth is: BandWidth=((PacketSize–(IP+UDP+GVSP Header))/(PacketSize + MACHeader+ CRC+ Packet-Delay)) * 1000M/bps Normally, IP/UDP/GVSP Header takes 36 bytes.

  • Page 49: User Parameter And Preference Setting

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera The actual network bandwidth is smaller than the theoretical one because of the network message, GVCP, GCSP leader, Trailer and any other overheads. Set Packet Size (GEV SCPS Packet Size) value and Packet Delay (GEV SCPD) value by using the slider and the input box.

  • Page 50: Embedded Information

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Figure 64 shows the relationship among four groups of parameters. Figure 64. The Relationship Among Four Groups of Parameters 4.12.2 Embedded Information The camera supports embedding information into the image data. The current supporting embedded information is: ●...
  • Page 51 Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Each embedded information of the available data will be put in the least 8 significant bits (No matter in MONO8 or RGB24). The Embedded information is as following: Timestamp: Take four bytes: transmission with four available data. Data format: The data format of the timestamp is shown in Figure 65.
  • Page 52 Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera Data format of white balance gain: Each channel consumes 2 bytes. The range is from 0 to 4095. Frame number: Take four bytes. Frame number format: Connect four bytes directly. The range is from 0 to 2^32. Trigger counter: Take 4 bytes.

  • Page 53: Firmware Updating

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 4.13 Firmware Updating Support firmware updating via LAN. After selecting available device in the device list, open Tool>Firmware Updating Tool in the Menu. Select available firmware updating kit, as shown in Figure 67. Figure 67.

  • Page 54: Troubleshooting

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 5 Troubleshooting 5.1 Indicator Status Definition LED Status Definition Steady On The LED indicator keeps lights on all the time Unlit The LED indicator keeps unlit all the time Fast Flicker The LED indicator flickers every 200ms to 300ms Slow Flicker The LED indicator flickers every 1000ms Extreme Slow Flicker...

  • Page 55: Faq

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 5.3 FAQ Problem Possible Reasons Solution Description 1) The camera cannot be 1) The camera does not 1) Confirm if the power supply of detected by the client work properly. camera is well connected (via LED software.

  • Page 56: Order Numbers

    Pollux GigE Series – 01M / 05M Camera 6 Order Numbers Table 14 shows the order numbers for Pollux Camera Link cameras. Part Number Description PX01M90MGE Camera, 01MP, monochrome, C-mount, GigE Vision PX05M23MGE Camera, 05MP, monochrome, C-mount, GigE Vision Table 14. Pollux GigE order number 7 Document Revision History Revision Date...

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