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- Page 1 AVT GigE (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) How to install a GigE camera Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye V2.1.0 04 May 2012 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 ................33 Performance optimization ................36 Using AcquireControl ..................... 37 Using 3rd party solutions....................37 Adjusting firewall settings ................38 Troubleshooting ....................39 Appendix ........................41 GigE Vision register description..................41 DeviceInformation ....................41 ImageSizeControl ..................... 42 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 Display camera live images on page 20 describes in general how to get live images from IP-based cameras and display them. • Chapter Performance optimization on page 36 describes how to optimize your system. • Chapter Adjusting firewall settings on page 38 describes how to configure the firewall settings. -
Page 8: Before Operation
Introduction This symbol highlights URLs for further information. The URL itself is shown in blue. Example: http://www.alliedvisiontec.com 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. -
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 must be Gigabit Ethernet (1000Base-T) compatible. • To maximize hardware performance, devices that offer jumbo packet sup- port (8 kB MTU size) are recommended. • For best performance all network devices including cameras, PCs and switches should support the packet size output by the camera.
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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 AVT AcquireControl software. 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, use the Pleora software GEVPlayer. Please refer to Chapter Installing GigE driver from Pleora on page 1. Open GEVPlayer, select the camera and set the desired persistent IP Figure 3: GEV Device Selection 2. - Page 15 IP settings: preliminary considerations Figure 4: GEV Device Control How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.1.0...
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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 3. It is also possible to add a second (or even more) IP address(es) to the NIC. In this case the Pleora IP engine always uses the bottom entry of the IP list: Example: This NIC works with two IP ranges: •...
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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 filter driver architecture for the best performance. (NIC manufacturers drivers usually ... -
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 You can use various software applications to display live camera images. The following subchapters describe how to get a live image with: • AcquireControl • Pleora Coyote • Pleora GEVPlayer • 3rd party solutions Refer to the technical documentation of these software solutions. -
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 dialog you now can select the eBUS Filter driver entry. -
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 How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.1.0... -
Page 23: Select The Image Processing Chain
Display camera live images Select the image processing chain Figure 12: Select image processing chain Start the continuous snap Figure 13: AcquireControl: Start continuous snap You get live images from the camera with the default exposure time and default camera settings. You can stop the live image by Stop snap. How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.1.0... -
Page 24: Advanced Operations
Display camera live images Advanced operations The AcquireControl software was developed for many different cameras. This chapter introduces the basic commands for controlling your camera. Exposure control Figure 14: Camera control Figure 15: Camera control: Exposure control How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.1.0... - Page 25 Display camera live images Bigeye cameras Mode Screenshot Continuous Mode. The camera uses its built-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. IOD Trigger Mode. The camera waits for an external exposure signal.
- Page 26 Display camera live images Figure 17: Goldeye: Terminal example: V=0 Figure 18: Goldeye: Terminal example: S=4 How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.1.0...
- Page 27 Display camera live images Note V and S are upper case letters Pearleye cameras For Pearleye cameras it is not possible the change the exposure time. Due to the microbolometer sensors, Pearleye cameras always work in Continuous mode. After the camera warm-up phase and during operation: Calibrate the internal image correction.
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Page 28: Pseudo Color And Contrast Enhancement
Display camera live images Figure 20: Pearleye: calibration The calibration can be started by the command k=0. After some seconds the camera is calibrated. Note k is a lower case letter Pseudo Color and Contrast Enhancement With the help of the Pseudo color dialog you can change the display of an image. -
Page 29: Background Correction
Display camera live images Note Don’t adjust this with the camera parameters. The contrast slider only changes the displayed values of the 12-bit camera image and not the camera data itself. Note The availability of this dialog depends on the chosen image process chain (see Chapter Select the image processing chain ... -
Page 30: Statistics And Histogram
Display camera live images Start here Figure 22: Pearleye: Background correction Statistics and histogram It can be very useful to take a look at the statistic / histogram values to be sure that the light conditions are OK (see Image processing menu). For a good light condition of the scene, the histogram of the image is balanced to the middle of the 12 bit (4096/2=2048), as shown below. -
Page 31: Using Pleora Coyote
Display camera live images Figure 23: Pearleye: Statistics and histogram Click Options to calculate the histogram for the entire image or only for an AOI. Using Pleora Coyote 1. Install the GigE VDS Camera Integration DLL. Ask AVT Application Engineering (Technical support) for details. 2. - Page 32 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 Configure. 8.
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Page 33: 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 compliance. 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 34 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 35 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 • 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 36: 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 37: 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 38: 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 39: Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Troubleshooting • If the camera can be detected but no images can be grabbed, verify the camera operation mode. Make sure the camera operate with Continuous Mode, and not with IOD mode. The three modes have the following mean- ing: –... - Page 40 Troubleshooting • Launch the Information Gathering Tool which was installed with the Pleora driver package. A shortcut to this program can be found in the Pleora Technologies Inc folder of the Start menu. Save the generated out- put to a file. •...
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Page 41: Appendix
Appendix Appendix GigE Vision register description Note This chapter describes all GigE Vision features. In dependence of the 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 42: 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 43: Analogcontrols
Appendix Feature Description AcquisitionStop Stops the image acquisition of the camera. TriggerMode Modifies the trigger mode of the camera. When the trigger mode is Off, the camera will generate frames independently. When the trigger mode is On the camera is switched to the so called IOD (Image On Demand) mode. -
Page 44: 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 45 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 46: 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 47: 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 48: Gige Vision Timer Calculations
Appendix GigE Vision timer calculations The figure below 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 49: 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 50: Index
Index Index GigE Vision cameras......14 Static Persistent IP address ......13 AcquireControl styles ............7 using ..........20 Support ............ 5 symbols............ 7 BinningHorizontal ........42 BinningVertical ........42 Technical information ......... 5 timer calculations........48 Troubleshooting........39 camera live images ........20 Conformity ..........
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