Canon VB-M40 Operation Manual page 44

On-screen Display
1 [Date display]
Select whether to enable date display over images. If
[Enable] is selected, date information will be displayed
over images.
2 [Position of date display]
Select [Upper left], [Upper right], [Lower left] or [Lower
right] for the position of date display information.
3 [Format of date display]
Select [YYYY/MM/DD], [DD/MM/YYYY] or [MM/DD/
YYYY] for the format of the date display.
4 [Time display]
Select whether to enable time display over images. If
[Enable] is selected, display time information will be
displayed over images.
5 [Position of time display]
Select [Upper left], [Upper right], [Lower left] or [Lower
right] for the position of time display information.
6 [Text display]
Select [Display nothing], [Display designated string] or
[Display camera name] for the text string display over
images.
If [Display designated string] is selected, the [Text
string display] set in 8 will be displayed.
If [Display camera name] is selected, the text string set
in [Camera Name (alphanumeric characters)] under
[Camera] will be shown (P. 4-9).
7 [Position of text display]
Select the position of text display from [Upper left],
[Upper right], [Lower left] or [Lower right].
8 [Text string display]
If [Display designated string] is selected in 6 [Text
display], set a text string up to 15 alphanumeric
characters to be displayed over images.
9 [Color of text]
Select [Black], [Blue], [Cyan], [Green], [Yellow], [Red],
[Magenta] or [White] for the color of text to be
displayed over the image.
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A q [Color of text outline]
Select [Black], [Blue], [Cyan], [Green], [Yellow], [Red],
[Magenta] or [White] for the color of text outline.
A a [Color depth of text and outline]
Select [Fill text and outline], [Make text only
transparent], [Make text only translucent] or [Make text
and outline translucent] for the color depth of text and
outline to be displayed over the image.
Important
The on-screen time display is not suitable for usage where high
reliability is required. Use as reference information only where
utmost and constant reliability is required for surveillance.
Note
• The on-screen time display may not correspond with camera
time by several seconds (P. 4-8).
• Depending on image quality settings, on-screen display may
become difficult to decipher. Set after confirming appearance
on actual images.
• On-screen display is subject to intelligent function detections
(P. 5-22). Adjust as necessary.