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ACC-CX3RDK-5680
Application User Manual
17-June-2014
e-con Systems India Pvt Ltd
RISHABH INFO PARK,
RR Tower – IV, 7th Floor,
Super A-16 & A-17, Thiru-Vi-Ka Industrial Estate,
Guindy, Chennai - 600 032.
www.e-consystems.com
ACC-CX3RDK-5680
e-CAMView Application User Manual
Revision 1.1
17-June-2014
www.e-consystems.com
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Subject to change without notice
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- Page 1 ACC-CX3RDK-5680 Application User Manual 17-June-2014 e-con Systems India Pvt Ltd RISHABH INFO PARK, RR Tower – IV, 7th Floor, Super A-16 & A-17, Thiru-Vi-Ka Industrial Estate, Guindy, Chennai - 600 032. www.e-consystems.com ACC-CX3RDK-5680 e-CAMView Application User Manual Revision 1.1 17-June-2014 www.e-consystems.com...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
ACC-CX3RDK-5680 Application User Manual 17-June-2014 Contents Revision History............................3 Introduction..............................4 Scope................................4 Description..............................4 Pre-Requisites............................4 Installation of the ACC-CX3RDK-5680 and Drivers..............4 Using e-CAMView............................ 5 Devices Menu.............................6 Options Menu............................. 7 6.2.1 Video Capture Filter.........................8 6.2.2 Video Capture Pin........................9 6.2.3 Still Capture Pin........................10 6.2.4 Bayer Filter Property page.................... -
Page 3: Revision History
ACC-CX3RDK-5680 Application User Manual 17-June-2014 ACC-CX3RDK-5680 1 Revision History Rev No Date Major Changes Author Camera PRD 26-May-2014 Initial Draft Team 17-June-2014 Added Changes Shanthakumar www.e-consystems.com Subject to change without notice Page 3 of 18... -
Page 4: Introduction
OV5680 CMOS sensor from Omnivision. The e-CAM58_MI5680_MOD is a small form- factor, 5 Megapixel RAW RGB (also known as Bayer format RGB) Autofocus camera module from e-con Systems with MIPI CSI-2 interface. This camera daughter board can be directly interfaced to the Denebola - CX3 RDK from e-con Systems. -
Page 5: Using E-Camview
Start -> All Programs -> e-con Systems -> e-CAMView. This version of e-CAMView comes with a set of features that can be used to attain the full functionality of ACC-CX3RDK-5680. The Menu bar at the top contains few menu items and the lower status bar shows some information. -
Page 6: Devices Menu
ACC-CX3RDK-5680 Application User Manual 17-June-2014 6.1 Devices Menu Devices menu will show the currently connected video devices to host PC and the user can select any video devices attached to the computer. A check mark is placed before the device indicating the video device which is currently streaming. -
Page 7: Options Menu
ACC-CX3RDK-5680 Application User Manual 17-June-2014 6.2 Options Menu The options menu can be used to select the various preview and image resolutions and the controls that are supported by ACC-CX3RDK-5680. When clicked the options menu will appear as shown in the snapshot below. Figure 3: Options Menu From this Options menu the following options can be selected Video Capture Pin –... -
Page 8: Video Capture Filter
ACC-CX3RDK-5680 Application User Manual 17-June-2014 6.2.1 Video Capture Filter The Video Capture Filter submenu of the Options Menu can be used to configure some of the camera parameters of ACC-CX3RDK-5680. Currently the ACC-CX3RDK-5680 supports manual focus. The user can choose the values of these controls of the ACC-CX3RDK-5680. The various controls that are supported by v are Focus (Manual) •... -
Page 9: Video Capture Pin
ACC-CX3RDK-5680 Application User Manual 17-June-2014 6.2.2 Video Capture Pin The Video Capture Pin submenu of the Options Menu is used to select the various supported resolutions by ACC-CX3RDK-5680. To change the resolution the user can select any one of the resolutions from the Output Size list box. -
Page 10: Still Capture Pin
ACC-CX3RDK-5680 Application User Manual 17-June-2014 6.2.3 Still Capture Pin The Still Capture Pin submenu of the Options Menu is used to select the various resolutions supported by ACC-CX3RDK-5680 for taking still images. One of the important features of ACC-CX3RDK-5680 is that a still image of any resolution can be taken from any preview resolution. -
Page 11: Bayer Filter Property Page
Unlike MJPEG or YUV, Bayer image cannot be viewed directly by any viewer or cannot be rendered using default DirectShow video renderers. Hence, e-con Systems designed a DirectShow transform filter that supports streaming of 8-bit Bayer camera through USB interface. - Page 12 ACC-CX3RDK-5680 Application User Manual 17-June-2014 Figure 9: Bayer Filter Property Page The user can control the following features through a software signal processing algorithm, which is controlled by the Bayer Filter Property Page; Bayer Pattern Selection • Bayer Interpolation Method •...
- Page 13 ACC-CX3RDK-5680 Application User Manual 17-June-2014 6.2.4.2 Bayer Interpolation Method Basic operation performed by the See3CAM Direct Show Bayer transform filter is demosaicing of Bayer image received from USB camera. Demosaicing is the process of reconstructing a green component dominated Bayer image to an equal weighted viewable RGB image. Figure 1 represents the arrangement of pixels information in Bayer image and output of demosaicing algorithm.
- Page 14 ACC-CX3RDK-5680 Application User Manual 17-June-2014 When using the Bilinear Interpolation method if the frame rate drops below 60 fps in 1280x720 or below 45 fps in 1280 x 960, then the system performance may not be sufficient to do the reconstruction process by this method.
- Page 15 ACC-CX3RDK-5680 Application User Manual 17-June-2014 6.2.4.5 Black level compensation For certain scenarios, there may be requirement to increase the black level value of the pixels for entire image. In that case, users are allowed to use Black Level compensation option which performs arithmetic operation (as per below equation) to every individual pixel of the image to either increase or decrease the value of pixel.
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Page 16: Capture Menu
ACC-CX3RDK-5680 Application User Manual 17-June-2014 6.3 Capture Menu The Capture Menu is used to capture the image by using the e-CAMView application. It can also be used to select the Still image capture path where the images will be saved. By default the e-CAMView will set the Desktop as the image storage path for easy access, but the user can change to any location by using the still path option. -
Page 17: Help Menu
ACC-CX3RDK-5680 Application User Manual 17-June-2014 6.4 Help Menu The Help Menu can be used to obtain the current version information of e-CAMView application installed in the computer. Figure 12: Help menu 7 Opening a RAW image The ACC-CX3RDK-5680 Bayer color camera stores the images in a RAW (.raw) format. To view these images the user can use the following steps;... -
Page 18: Conclusion
ACC-CX3RDK-5680 Application User Manual 17-June-2014 1. Image width – This is to be set at 2592 for ACC-CX3RDK-5680. 2. Image height – This is to be set either at 1944 according to the image. 3. Bits Per Pixel (BPP) – Select 8 BPP. 4.