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USER MANUAL COE HR AS-X Series COE-200 GigE Camera USER MANUAL V1.0 CAMERAS...
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User Manual About this Manual The Manual includes instructions for using and managing the product. Pictures, charts, images and all other information hereinafter are for description and explanation only. The information contained in the Manual is subject to change, without notice, due to firmware updates or other reasons.
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Warnings: Please adopt the power adapter which can meet the safety extra low voltage (SELV) standard. And source with 12 VDC (depending on models) according to the IEC60950-1 and Limited Power Source standard. To reduce the risk of fire or electrical shock, do not expose this product to rain or moisture. ...
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Part Number Part number Description COE-200-x-POE-070-yy-C CMOS, IMX183, 1", 5544x3692, 2.4pix, C-mount How to Order M = Monochrome C = Color Glass/Infrared cut filter supported...
Chapter 1 Overview Introduction The COE camera 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. Main Features The gigabit Ethernet interface provides the bandwidth of 1 Gbps and reaches the maximum transmission distance of ...
Figure 1-2 Rear Panel Table 1-1 Description of the Rear Panel Description RJ45 gigabit Ethernet interface M2 screw holes for network cable securing 6-pin power and I/O interface Status indicator LED 1.3.3 Power and I/O Interface Introduction The description of the 6-pin power and I/O connector is shown in the table below. Figure 1-3 Power and I/O Interface Table 1-2 Description Signal...
1.3.4 Installation Accessories Prepare the installation accessories listed below before you install the COE camera. Table 1-3 Accessory List Accessory Name Number Description Camera COE camera Power I/O cable The 6-pin cable or extension cable Power adapter 12V DC power adapter (Min. 1A) Ethernet cable with CAT-5e or CAT-6 Ethernet cable proper length...
Chapter 2 Camera Installation and Configuration Installing the Camera Steps: Unpack the camera package and install the lens (optional) to the camera body by rotating the lens clockwise. Fix the camera to the desired position. Use CAT-5e or CAT-6 network cable to connect the camera with a switch or a network card. Choose a power supply method.
Figure 2-1 IP Address Setting Click OK to save the settings. You also need to enable the jumbo frame of the NIC. For different operating systems, the path to setting the jumbo frame may be different. Here we take Windows 7 as an example. Click Start ->...
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Figure 2-2 Camera Network Parameters Setting (1) You can view the camera status and modify the settings. If the camera status is Free, the camera is available and you can edit its IP address. If the camera status is In Use, it means the client software or other processes are accessing the 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 2-4 Camera Network Parameters Setting (3) 4) Click OK to save the settings.
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Table 2-1 Description of the Main User Interface Area Name Description Function modules including File, View, Camera, Settings, Tools, and Menu Bar Help. Control Toolbar The control toolbar. Display the GigE Vision camera and USB3 Vision camera, and provide Device List Panel icons for connecting/disconnecting camera, start/stop acquisition, and refreshing device list.
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alias and reset the device. Image Format Control: In the Image Format Control attribute, you can view the live view image width and height, pixel size, etc. You can modify the image reverse status, test pattern and the embedded information, etc.
Chapter 3 Functions Device Control 3.1.1 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. Input the device name in Device User ID as shown in Figure 3-1. Figure 3-1 Device Name Modification You can turn on the heartbeat detection mechanism, reset the device and view the device temperature in Device Control, as shown in Figure 3-2.
Figure 3-2 Device Information 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.
The camera uses 12 bit ADC (some only support 10 bit ADC). Support 8 bit data output according to your data processing capacity. The camera will capture 8 bit from Most Significant Bits just as MSB8 output, in order to maintain the grey level output of the image data.
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Figure 3-8 Frame Rate Setting The lowest frame rate within the three formulas is Resulting Frame Rate. Click Image Format Control and move. Select Width and Height. Adjust the ROI on the right side. The value in the Offset X and the Offset Y refer to the ROI starting point at the top left corner. The following figure shows the ROI setting.
Global Shutter and Rolling Shutter 3.3.1 Global Shutter Support global shutter camera. Exposure starts and ends in each line simultaneously. Data readout is after the exposure. The time for the sensor collecting exposure and for the data readout are the same, but as shown in Figure 3-10, different in the actual readout time.
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Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Readout Line 4 Line 5 Offset=Readout Line n-1 Line n Exposure Readout Figure 3-11 Rolling Shutter The figure of rolling shutter’s signal readout under internal trigger mode Intergration1 Intergration2 Intergration3 Frame 1 Frame 2 Readout Readout Figure 3-12 Internal Trigger Mode...
Image Acquisition and Transmission Image acquisition mode is divided into internal trigger mode and external trigger mode. Internal trigger mode includes continuous acquisition mode and single frame acquisition mode. External trigger mode includes software trigger mode and hardware external trigger mode. Select On or Off in Trigger Mode to select either internal trigger mode or external trigger mode.
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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. (2) Trigger delay As shown in Figure 3-16, in order to integrate later, the camera can set delay time when receiving the trigger signal.
Strobe Output Strobe is external trigger output signal and is used for controlling external devices such as flashing light and so on. You can set the Strobe polarity, duration, output delay and pre-trigger through the client software. As shown in Figure 3-19, click Digital IO Control. Select Line Selector and choose output pin. Check Strobe Enabled and finish setting.
Trigger_in3 Trigger_in2 Trigger_in1 Trigger Trigger Trigger delay delay delay Duration Strobe Intergration1 Intergration2 Intergration3 Sensor exposure Figure 3-21 Strobe Valid Electrical Level Duration (3) Strobe output delay The camera supports the function of Strobe signal output delay to satisfy special applications: as shown in Figure 3-22, when exposure starts, the Strobe output is not valid immediately.
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Expose only once when inputting one trigger signal. Figure 3-24 Single Frame Mode The frame rate and exposure time decide to trigger the next frame or not when reading out camera data. If exposure is in progress, the camera will ignore another external trigger signal. You can set a longer exposure time to achieve Bulb Shutter.
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. 3.7.1 Non-overlap Exposure After completing the current frame’s exposure and readout, the next frame starts to expose and read out.
Figure 3-29 Internal Trigger Overlap Exposure Overlap exposure under external trigger mode Trigger_in1 Trigger_in2 Trigger_in3 Intergration1 Intergration2 Intergration3 Sensor exposure Frame 1 Frame 2 Readout Readout Figure 3-30 External Trigger Overlap Exposure Counter Control The counter can divide frequencies that from external inputting trigger signal. You can control the exposure depends on your expectations.
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Figure 3-32 Counter Frequency Division Configuration Note: By default, Line 0 is signal input pin. Line 2 is configurable input and output pin. Configure Line 2 to input pin in Digital IO Control, as shown in Figure 3-33, in order to do frequency division for Line 2. Figure 3-33 Configuring Line 2 Pin to Input In Counter And Timer Control, you should set Counter Value.
Imaging Parameter Setting 3.9.1 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.
minimum. 3.9.3 White balance The camera supports the white balance. The white balance refers to the camera color adjustment depending on different light sources. Adjust the Gain Value of the image’s R channel and B channel to keep white regions white under different color temperatures. Ideally, the proportion of R channel, G channel and B channel in the white region is 1:1:1.
Figure 3-39 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. 3.9.5 Look Up Table (LUT) LUT is the grey level mapping table.
Gamma=0.5 Gamma=1 Gamma=2 Gamma=4 Figure 3-41 Gamma Curve Click Analog Control in the attribute list. Select Gamma and Gamma Selector and set the parameter as shown in Figure 3-42. Figure 3-42 Gamma Setting Note: Different cameras versions have different default function parameters. The figures shown above are only for reference.
The hue and the saturation are only for the color camera. 3.9.8 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 3-43.
Click Acquisition Control and choose Selector. Set parameters in each group. Set available parameter in HDR Shutter and HDR Gain. Tick HDR Enable and finish setting, as shown in Figure 3-45. Figure 3-45 Four Groups of Parameters’ HDR Cycling. Figure 3-46 HDR Cycling Map 3.9.10 Test pattern Click Image Format Control in the attribute list.
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The camera provides four test patterns, including Mono Bar, Vertical Color Bar, Horizontal Color Bar and Checkboard as shown in the following four figures. Note: Color camera and black and white camera have different test patterns. The specific test pattern is decided by the camera function.
Figure 3-51 Checkboard Test Pattern 3.10 I/O Electric Feature 3.10.1 Line0 Opto-isolated Input Circuit In controlling camera I/O, Line0 input circuit can be shown in Figure 3-52. Figure 3-52 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 among the two values is not stable.
opto-isolated outputs the different external voltage and resistance. Table 3-4 The Parameter of Output Logic Low Level External Voltage External Resistor Output Current 3.3V 1KΩ 575mV 2.7mA 1KΩ 840mV 4.1mA 2.4KΩ 915mV 4.6mA 4.7KΩ 975mV 4.9mA 3.10.3 Line2 Configurable Bi-direction I/O Circuit In controlling I/O, the configurable bi-direction non-isolated IO circuit of Line2 can be shown in Figure 3-56.
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 3-5. Table 3-5 The Parameter of Output Logic Low Level VL(GPIO2)...
(1) If the camera’s Persistent IP is available and the configured Persistent IP is available, the camera will load this Persistent IP. Or execute (2). (2) If DHCP function is available and the acquired IP address is available, the camera will load IP address that acquired by DHCP.
3.12 User Parameter and Preference Setting 3.12.1 Parameters Saving and Loading The camera can save four groups of parameters, including one group of factory parameter and three groups of configurable parameters. You can save currently configured parameter and set corresponded default parameter when logging in at next time in User Set Control in the attribute list.
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Exposure time Average brightness White balance gain Frame number Trigger counter The above eight information will be embedded in the image data one by one according to the client. If the information is not available, it will not be embedded. The AOI will not affect the embedding.
takes one and a half bytes. The column coordinate is in the front of the row coordinate. The coordinate of the length and the width also consume one and a half bytes respectively. Click Image Format Control in the attribute list. Select Embedded Image Info Selector. Choose the parameter in the drop-down box and finish setting, as shown in Figure 3-64.
Chapter 4 Troubleshooting Indicator Status Definition Table 4-1 LED Indicator Status 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.
Table 4-3 FAQ Problem Description Possible Reasons Solutions 1. The camera 1. The camera does not 1. Confirm if the power supply of camera is cannot be detected work properly. well connected (via LED indicator), and the by the client 2.