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- Page 1 AVT GigE (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) How to install a GigE camera Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye V2.0.0 03 November 2011 Allied Vision Technologies GmbH Taschenweg 2a D-07646 Stadtroda / Germany...
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Page 2: Legal Notice
Microsoft, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Unless stated otherwise, all trademarks appearing in this document of Allied Vision Technologies are brands protected by law. -
Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents Contacting Allied Vision Technologies ........... 5 Introduction ......................6 Document history......................6 Manual overview ......................6 Conventions used in this manual ..................7 Styles ........................7 Symbols ........................7 Before operation......................8 Safety warnings ......................8 Cleaning instructions ....................... 9 IP-based camera access: background ...........10... - Page 4 Using National Instruments software ................32 Performance optimization ................35 Using AcquireControl ..................... 36 Using 3rd party solutions....................36 Adjusting firewall settings ................37 Troubleshooting ....................38 Appendix ........................40 GigE Vision register description..................40 DeviceInformation ....................40 ImageSizeControl ..................... 41 AcquisitionControl ....................42 AnalogControls ......................
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Page 5: Contacting Allied Vision Technologies
Allied Vision Technologies Inc. 38 Washington Street Newburyport, MA 01950, USA Tel.: +1 978-225-2030 Fax: +1 978-225-2029 e-mail: info@alliedvisiontec.com Allied Vision Technologies Asia Pte. Ltd. 82 Playfair Road #07-02 D’Lithium Singapore 368001 Tel: +65 6634-9027 Fax: +65 6634-902 e-mail: info@alliedvisiontec.com... -
Page 6: Introduction
Manual overview This manual overview outlines the contents of each chapter of this manual. • Chapter Contacting Allied Vision Technologies on page 5 lists AVT contact data (phone numbers and URLs) for both: – Technical information / ordering – Commercial information •... -
Page 7: Conventions Used In This Manual
Introduction • Chapter Adjusting firewall settings on page 37 describes how to configure the firewall settings. • Chapter Troubleshooting on page 38 helps you when you get in trouble. • Chapter Index on page 49 gives you quick access to all relevant data in this manual. -
Page 8: Before Operation
Introduction Before operation We place the highest demands for quality on our cameras. Target group This Technical Manual is the guide to detailed technical information of the camera and is written for experts. Note Please read through this manual carefully before operating the camera. -
Page 9: Cleaning Instructions
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH cleans the sensors around the lens mount thread with pure air in a clean room class 1000. After a careful test in the clean room a seal is affixed on the lens mount aperture. -
Page 10: Ip-Based Camera Access: Background
IP-based camera access: background IP-based camera access: background In order to access a camera (or any other device) in the network, it is necessary that the camera and also the Network Interface Card (NIC) have a valid IP address. Every device in the network must have a unique IP address. The following graphic illustrates the assembling of such network: Figure 1: Network with IP-based cameras The chosen IP addresses and the way the devices are connected in the illustra-... - Page 11 IP-based camera access: background • The NIC (Network Interface Card) of the PC should be Gigabit Ethernet (1000Base-T) compatible. • If Windows XP is used as operating system, make sure that the Microsoft Hotfix KB926255 is installed. • After the first functional test of the camera you can try to re-enable Firewalls and antivirus solutions step by step: see Chapter Adjusting firewall settings...
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Page 12: Ip Settings: Preliminary Considerations
IP settings: preliminary considerations IP settings: preliminary considerations There are several different ways the camera may get its IP address. Please refer to the following subchapters to choose the best solution for your application. Please also refer to Chapter General tips for setting IP addresses on page 16 for additional information how to set an IP address for a NIC (Network Interface Card). -
Page 13: Static Ip Address
IP settings: preliminary considerations Static IP address The camera can also use a static IP address. This address can be set while con- necting to the camera with the external tool AcquireControl. Note The Pleora driver has to be installed to run this application. ... -
Page 14: Static Persistent Ip For Gige Vision Camera
IP settings: preliminary considerations Static Persistent IP for GigE Vision camera To store a persistent IP for a camera with GEV firmware the Pleora software GEVPlayer should be used. Please refer to Chapter Installing GigE driver from Pleora on page 18 regarding installation of this software. 1. - Page 15 IP settings: preliminary considerations Figure 4: GEV Device Control How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0...
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Page 16: General Tips For Setting Ip Addresses
General tips for setting IP addresses General tips for setting IP addresses 1. While changing Windows IP address settings make sure that no camera application is running. 2. To set the IP address of a PC NIC, open the network connections (Start -> Settings ->... - Page 17 General tips for setting IP addresses Figure 6: TCP/IP If the two entries in this example were swapped the camera would work in the 192.168.1.XXX range. To verify which NIC IP address is used by the Pleora IP engine, click on the NIC entry during camera selection process.
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Page 18: Installing Gige Driver From Pleora
Installing GigE driver from Pleora Installing GigE driver from Pleora In order to access a camera it is not necessary to install a driver. Note We recommend to use the iPORT/eBUS Filterdriver architecture for the best performance. (Manufacturers drivers usually have ... -
Page 19: Hardware Connection And First Power Up
Hardware connection and first power up Hardware connection and first power 1. Connect the camera via a CAT5e cable to the PC/notebook. This can be done directly or over a gigabit network switch. 2. Connect the camera to the power supply. 3. -
Page 20: Display Camera Live Images
Display camera live images Display camera live images In order to display live images from the camera several programs can be used. The following subchapters describe how to get a live image using these pro- grams. Please also refer to the detailed manual of the chosen application. Using AcquireControl Most of the following settings are stored by the application, so these configu- ration steps are necessary only once. -
Page 21: Select The Ip Address
Display camera live images Select the IP address In dependence of the driver version you use, the appearance of this dialog may differ. If an IP address could not be set automatically it can be set within this dialog manually. Figure 11: Select IP address After closing the “Set IP Engine IP Address”... -
Page 22: Select The Camera
Display camera live images Select the camera Bigeye cameras Goldeye cameras Pearleye cameras Table 3: Select the camera model you want to use Select the image processing chain Figure 12: Select image processing chain How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0... -
Page 23: Start The Continuous Snap
Display camera live images Start the continuous snap Figure 13: AcquireControl: Start continuous snap Now you will get live images from the camera with the default exposure time and default camera settings. You can stop the live image by “Stop snap” at every time. - Page 24 Display camera live images Figure 15: Camera control: Exposure control Bigeye cameras Mode Screenshot Continuous Mode. The camera will use it’s build in exposure signal, which is always constant. IOD Timer Mode. The exposure signal is generated by a timer, which can be adjusted with the dialog.
- Page 25 Display camera live images To adjust the exposure time, you always have to process two steps: 1. Adjust the Exposure time or Continuous mode and Gain setting like described in Chapter Bigeye cameras on page 24. 2. Select the corresponding correction data set as follows: Figure 16: Camera Control Terminal Figure 17: Goldeye: Terminal example: V=0 How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0...
- Page 26 Display camera live images Figure 18: Goldeye: Terminal example: S=4 Note V and S are upper case letters Pearleye cameras For Pearleye cameras it is not possible the change the exposure time. Pearleye cameras work always in Continuous mode. The internal image correction in the camera should be calibrated from time to time and some minutes after the camera has switched on.
- Page 27 Display camera live images Figure 19: Camera Control Terminal Figure 20: Pearleye: calibration The calibration can be started by the command “k=0”. After some seconds the camera is calibrated. How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0...
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Page 28: Pseudo Color & Contrast Enhancement
Display camera live images Note k is a lower case letter Pseudo Color & Contrast Enhancement With the help of the “Pseudo color” dialog you can change the display of an image. Also you have the possibility to change the contrast of the displayed image to see more details of the 12-bit values. -
Page 29: Background Correction
Display camera live images Background Correction You can add an additional background correction (see “Image processing” menu) in the AcquireControl to get a better image quality. Therefore you have first record a homogeneous image and than set the average value and switch on this correction. -
Page 30: Using Pleora Coyote
Display camera live images Figure 23: Pearleye: Statistics and histogram By clicking on the Options button you can decide to calculate the histogram for the whole image or only for an AOI. Using Pleora Coyote 1. Install the “GigE VDS Camera Integration DLL” available as download from the AVT website. - Page 31 Display camera live images If the “GigE VDS Camera Integration DLL” is not installed, the Programmable Logic Controller of the IP Engine and the image format has to be setup manu- ally: 7. After connecting to the camera click on “Configure”. 8.
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Page 32: Using Pleora Gevplayer
Display camera live images Using Pleora GEVPlayer The Pleora GEVPlayer is an application which can grab images from a camera with GigE Vision configuration. All Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye cameras are GigE Vision V1.2 compliant. Note In order to work with a GigE Vision compatible camera it is nec- essary to use at least Pleora driver version 2.3.3. - Page 33 Display camera live images Figure 25: IMAQdx driver 2. Open the “Devices and Interfaces” branch. After a few seconds the camera should appear. 3. Click once on the camera entry. Now every register of the camera is read which can take a few seconds. 4.
- Page 34 Display camera live images all NI applications and delete all files and folders within the following directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\National Instruments\NI- IMAQdx\Data 7. When you want to switch between a GigE Vision application (e.g. NI MAX) and an iPORT application (e.g. Coyote), it is necessary to power cycle the camera.
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Page 35: Performance Optimization
Performance optimization Performance optimization The video data from the camera is (like all other data in the network) transferred in packets. The default value for this packet size is 1440 bytes. In some cases it can be an advantage to increase this packet size because then fewer packets are needed to transfer the image data. -
Page 36: Using Acquirecontrol
Performance optimization Using AcquireControl 1. Close AcquireControl. 2. Go to the installation directory. 3. Open the file UniGrab.ini with a text editor. 4. Find the “GRABBER_” section with the description Gigabit Ethernet (iPORT) 5. Find the value PacketSize and enter the determined Jumbo Frame size – 72 bytes. -
Page 37: Adjusting Firewall Settings
Adjusting firewall settings Adjusting firewall settings 1. For the first test all firewalls and antivirus solutions should be disabled. Only when the camera can be accessed properly without any firewall one can try to adjust firewall settings step by step. The communication from and to the camera is done in the UDP protocol. -
Page 38: Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Troubleshooting • If the camera can be detected but no images can be grabbed, verify the camera operation mode. Basically every AVT camera can work in three modes: – Continuous Mode – The camera generates the images with a constant exposure time independently. - Page 39 Troubleshooting “Pleora Technologies Inc” folder of the Start menu. Save the generated output to a file. • Make screenshots of the problem and the network connection dialogs of windows. • Write down the state of the LED’s on the backside of the GIP-1000 camera module.
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Page 40: Appendix
Appendix Appendix GigE Vision register description Note This chapter describes all GigE Vision features. In dependence of the used camera the availability of certain features may vary. DeviceInformation Feature Description DeviceModeName Name of the attached camera model. DeviceID Unique 32 bit device ID of the AVT camera model. DeviceUserID User ID field. -
Page 41: Imagesizecontrol
Appendix ImageSizeControl Feature Description SensorWidth Maximum width of the sensor in pixels. SensorHeight Maximum height of the sensor in pixels. WidthMax This feature represents the maximum width (in pixels) of the image after horizontal binning, decimation or any other function changing the horizontal dimensions of the image. -
Page 42: Acquisitioncontrol
Appendix AcquisitionControl Feature Description AcquisitionMode This feature controls the acquisition mode of the software. This feature works independently (!) of the chosen camera mode (Continuous, IOD hardware trigger, IOD hardware timer). It describes how many frames should be acquired. AcquisitionStart Starts the image acquisition of the camera. -
Page 43: Cameraspecialfeatures
Appendix CameraSpecialFeatures What is a CameraSpecialFeature? This section contains camera depending commands like serial commands (if available). For each command within this branch you will find a description text in your GigE Vision software. The description contains a reference to the serial command which can be found in the base manual of the camera for further information. - Page 44 Appendix Feature Description CameraTemperatureState Camera temperature state. 0 = The camera temperature is OK. 1 = The camera temperature is outside the optimum range. CameraTemperatureStateReg Camera temperature state register. QueryCameraTemperatureState Query camera temperature state. (T=1 command) Table 11: Camera special feature: Camera temperature Feature Description SensorTemperatureState...
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Page 45: Cameraspecialfeatures\Twopointcorrection
Appendix CameraSpecialFeatures\TwoPointCorrection Feature Description TPC_OperationMode Operation mode of the two-point correction. (E=<value> command) TPC_CorrectionData_FileNumber File number of the flash file containing the set values for the two-point correction. (N=<value> command) TPC_SetValue_LowRef Define the set value for the low reference image of the two-point correction. -
Page 46: Cameraspecialfeatures\Lut
Appendix CameraSpecialFeatures\LUT Feature Description LUT_OperationMode Operation mode of the LUT. (G=<value> command) LUT_CorrectionData_FileNumber File number of the data for the LUT. (D=<value> command) Table 16: Camera special feature: LUT CameraSpecialFeatures\IntegratorAndImageStore Feature Description IIS_OperationMode Operation mode of the integrator and image store. (H=<value>... -
Page 47: Gige Vision Timer Calculations
Appendix GigE Vision timer calculations The following graphic shows how an exposure signal is generated. Figure 28: GigE Vision timer calculations In order to adjust t and t of the TREX pulse in each case two parameters Dark are available: •... -
Page 48: Feature Mapping
Appendix Feature mapping This table shows the mapping of the camera features to the corresponding fea- tures in the GigE Vision naming convention. AVT camera feature Camera Link CC port GigE Vision feature names TREX ExposureMode, ExposureTime, DarkTime TREX is an input signal. The LOW time defines the exposure time. -
Page 49: Index
Index Index AcquireControl Technical information ......... 5 using ..........20 timer calculations........47 Troubleshooting........38 camera live images ........20 Conformity ..........10 Contacting ..........5 declaration of conformity ......10 DHCP............12 document history ........6 Feature mapping ........48 GigE driver from Pleora ......
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