Imaq Vision; Imaq Vision Builder - National Instruments IMAQ PCI-1407 User Manual

IMAQ Vision

IMAQ Vision Builder

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National Instruments' IMAQ Vision is an image acquisition, processing,
and analysis library of more than 200 functions for grayscale, color, and
binary image display; image processing; pattern matching; shape
matching; blob analysis; gauging; and measurement.
You can use IMAQ Vision functions directly or in combination for
unique image processing. With IMAQ Vision, you can acquire, display,
manipulate, and store images, as well as perform image analysis,
processing, and interpretation. Using IMAQ Vision, an imaging novice
or expert can perform graphical programming of the most basic or
complicated image applications without knowledge of any algorithm
implementations.
IMAQ Vision is available for LabVIEW and Measurement Studio, which
includes support for LabWindows/CVI, Visual C++, and Visual Basic.
National Instruments' IMAQ Vision Builder is an interactive prototyping
tool for machine vision and scientific imaging developers. With IMAQ
Vision Builder, you can prototype vision software quickly or test how
various vision image processing functions work.
As shown in Figure 1-3, IMAQ Vision Builder generates a Builder file,
which is a text description that contains a recipe of the machine vision and
image processing functions. This Builder file provides a guide you can use
for developing applications into any development environment, such as
LabWindows/CVI or Visual Basic, using the IMAQ Vision machine vision
and image processing libraries. Using the LabVIEW VI creation wizard,
you can create a LabVIEW VI that performs the prototype that you created
in IMAQ Vision Builder.
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Chapter 1 Introduction
IMAQ PCI/PXI-1407 User Manual