Overview Thank you for purchasing the USB Digital Video Camera. This high performance PC camera imbedded with video compression engine inside and push the video transmission through USB interface to the limit. A choice of high resolution sensor provides sharpest image quality, you will never too late to enjoy the pleasure of video applications in your PC with this USB Digital Video Camera.
Hardware installation To plug in the USB cable of PC camera into the USB port in the PC or any USB hub attached to the PC. Note: The Add New Hardware Wizard will start automatically once the camera has been plugged in. The LED indicator of the camera will be active after the USB host controller having initiated the USB device properly.
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Select the “Search for the best driver for your device.” And click on the Next button to search for the best driver. Select the “Floppy disk driver” and insert the driver diskette that came with the camera into the floppy drive. Then click on the Next button.
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Click on the Next button, then the Windows will copy all required files from the driver diskette to system. CCD Camera Capture A:\CCDV218.INF Click on the Finish button to complete the driver installation. CCD Camera Capture...
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Win2000 1. Boot up the computer to Win2000 and then attach the camera to computer’s USB port. 2. At “Found New Hardware Wizard” click on “Next”. 3. Select “Search for a suitable driver for my device” and then click “Next”.
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4. Select “Floppy disk drives” and then click on “Next”. 5. Click “Next”. a:\ccdv218.inf...
Quality & Format Adjustment The driver provides “Source” and “Format” option to adjust quality and format for display. When you pop up the application software, to select “ Option -> Video Source” allows you to fine tune image related parameters, such as Contrast, Sharpness and Gamma.
Specifications Sensor 1/4” progressive mode CCD sensor Resolution 350.000 pixels Color support 16.8million true color and 256gray level Frame rate 30fps@352x288,15fps@640x480 LED indication Camera active Brightness control Automatic Color control Automatic 4mm - 8 Focus Lens f=6mm, F=2.0 Interface USB port, compiles with USB version 1.1 OS support Win98 , Win2000 Software control...
Appendix: Microphone Installation In the package, it includes a microphone. With Microphone, the user can record image with voice. To install the microphone, just plug the microphone to the “Mic in” connector on the sound card of the PC. The user can check the microphone by running Windows Start Menu/ Programs/ Accessories/ Entertainment/ Sound Recorder.
Appendix: VIDEO CONFERENCE GLOSSARY CMOS image sensor - CMOS (abbreviated for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) is similar to CCD with different silicon process in production. The advantage of CMOS is low power consumption, low production cost and small in chipset dice. The cons are lacking of noise immunity, which leads to less sensitivity in image quality.
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Image quality - PC camera has to faithfully reflect and reproduce true color of observed object, any distortion of image or twisted of color will consider being poor image quality. Since the responses of human eyes to color are slightly different, some testing equipment and environment is necessary to accurately judge the image quality.
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Personal videoconferencing system- system designed to connect a single person into a teleconference. Most desktop video conferencing systems are personal systems. Frame rate - The number of images per second displayed in a video stream. Approximately 24 frames per second (fps) is considered full-motion video.
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H.324 for POTS - Another family of standards covers desktop videoconferencing over POTS. This family is called H.324, which the ITU-T ratified in early 1996. H.324 covers low-bit-rate videoconferencing between multimedia telephones. These telephones include stand-alone video phones, PC-based video phones, and TV - based video phones that resemble cable boxes with built-in cameras that sit atop televisions.
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Twain - A standardized interfacing system that allows many different software applications to access many different image input devices. TWAIN compliance is needed for both software applications and imaging hardware devices (scanners, cameras) to be compatible. USB port - USB is the abbreviation for Universal Serial Interface, and is a new interface with throughput goes up to 12Mbps.
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