Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye Operation & User’s Manual

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• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Display camera live images How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 26 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. Figure 18: Goldeye: Terminal example: S=4 Note  V and S are upper case letters

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Display camera live images How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 24 Bigeye cameras Goldeye cameras NIR cameras have an internal non uniformity correction and bad pixel correc- tion. The non-uniformity depends on the exposure time and the gain, so you have to change the correction in case of changing the exposure-time or gain. To get a good image quality, we have prepared and stored different correction sets inside the camera. So it is very easy to change the correction when

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Display camera live images How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 30 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. 2. Start Coyote. 3. Select the camera by clicking on “Detect…” and set IP (if necessary). 4. Select the camera type. 5. Click on “Connect”. 6. Go to the “Acquisition” tab and click on “Start”. Figure 23: Pearleye: Statistics and histogram

• Performance optimization How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 35 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 n

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Adjusting firewall settings How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 37 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. 2. A global rule for incoming and outgoing traffic should be created Rule: Pleora outgoing (Allow) •Protocol: UDP • Direction: Outgoing, Packet type: Local • Remote Host: 255.255.255.255 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx IP range the camera is in, e.g. 169.254.*.* •Remote Port:4 68 3956 20200

• Installing GigE driver from Pleora How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 18 Installing GigE driver from Pleora In order to access a camera it is not necessary to install a driver. Before you install a driver make sure that all old Pleora drivers have been deinstalled. After deinstallation restart the computer. Note  We recommend to use the iPORT/eBUS Filterd

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Hardware connection and first power up How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 19 Hardware connection and first power up 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. Power on the camera and verify the state of the LEDs on the backside of the camera. It can take up to 5 seconds until the LEDs reach their settled state that means that the camera is ready for use. LED states for different camera models Figure 8: LED states Bigeye cameras Goldeye Cameras Pearleye cameras L2: Constantly ON L2: Co

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Appendix How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 40 Appendix GigE Vision register description DeviceInformation Note  This chapter describes all GigE Vision features. In dependence of the used camera the availability of certain features may vary. Feature Description DeviceModeName Name of the attached camera model. DeviceID Unique 32 bit device ID of the AVT camera model. DeviceUserID User ID field. This field can be accessed (R/W) by the user to store an additional device identifier. DeviceScanType This feature specifies the scan type of the sensor (Areascan or Linescan). Table 5: Standard: Devi

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, General tips for setting IP addresses How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 17 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. Figure 6: TCP/IP Figure 7: IP Engine Selection

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, General tips for setting IP addresses How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 16 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 -> Network connections). Then open the properties window of the desired connection. 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 last entry of the IP list: Example: This NIC works with two IP rang

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 2 Legal notice Trademarks 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. Warranty The information provided by Allied Vision Technologies is supplied without any guarantees or warranty whatsoever, be it specific or implicit. Also excluded are all implicit warranties concern- ing the negotiability, the suitability for specific applic

• Display camera live images How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 29 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. Statistics &

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Display camera live images How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 28 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. Note  k is a lower case letter Note  Don’t scramble 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 ch

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Display camera live images How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 27 The calibration can be started by the command “k=0”. After some seconds the camera is calibrated. Figure 19: Camera Control Terminal Figure 20: Pearleye: calibration

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Introduction How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 7 •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. Conventions used in this manual To give this manual an easily understood layout and to emphasize important information, the following typographical styles and symbols are used: Styles Symbols Style Function Example Bold Programs, inputs or highlighting important things bold Courier Code listings etc. I

• IP settings: preliminary considerations How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 14 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. Open GEVPlayer, select t

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Display camera live images How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 22 Select the camera Select the image processing chain Bigeye cameras Goldeye cameras Pearleye cameras Table 3: Select the camera model you want to use Figure 12: Select image processing chain

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Performance optimization How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 36 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. 6. Save the file and start AcquireControl again. Using 3rd party solutions Using National Instruments software 1. Start MAX. 2. Open the camera. 3. In the lower pane open the �

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Display camera live images How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 23 Start the 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. Advanced operations The AcquireControl software was developed for many different cameras, so we will try to introduce you in the basic commands for controlling your camera. Exposure control Figure 13: AcquireControl: Start continuous snap Figure 14: Camera control

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Display camera live images How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 20 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. Select the grabber

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Appendix How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 48 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 CC1 ExposureMode, ExposureTime, DarkTime TREX is an input signal. The LOW time defines the exposure time. The HIGH time defines the dark time. BIN CC2 BinningVertical. If the camera has 2x2 binning implemented, the BinningHorizontal feature is set automatically. SV2 CC3 GainRaw IOD CC4 TriggerMode Table 19: Feature mapping

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Display camera live images How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 34 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. 8. In some situations the MAX software is not able to confirm the used pixel format. In this case open the �

• Display camera live images How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 21 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. After closing the “Set IP Engine IP Address” dialog you now can select the eBUS Filter d

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Appendix How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 43 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. Feature Description DigitalGain Digital Gain Mode (G=<value> command) Table 9: Camera special feature: DigitalG

• Allied Vision Technologies AVT GigEBigeye, Introduction How to install a GigE camera (Bigeye/Pearleye/Goldeye) V2.0.0 8 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. Safety warnings Note  Please read through this manual carefully before operating the camera. Caution  Before operating any AVT camera read the following safety instructions and ESD warnings. Caution  Electrostatic discharge The camera c

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