Page Comparison

Info

Open or close the Info Dialog. The Info Dialog(See 2.2.5) contains an information window, Display Format choices and the current Mouse Selection choice.

 <F2> or <Ctrl-I>

Control

Open or close the Sensor Control Dialog(See 2.2.4). This set of pages gives access to a variety of image sensor registers through a user friendly interface.

 <F3> or <Ctrl-S>

Preset

Open or close the Preset Dialog(See 2.2.6). This dialog can be used to load or save the current state of the sensors (registers and color pipe settings).

 <Ctrl-P>

Register

Open or close the Register Dialog(See 2.2.7). The Register Dialog allows the user to read and write registers on the image sensor.

 <F4> or <Ctrl-R>

Log

Open or close the Register Log Dialog(See 2.2.8). This dialog logs sensor register writes.

 <Ctrl-L>

Graphs

Open or close the Analysis Dialog(See 2.2.9). The Analysis Dialog displays a graphical interpretation of a selected area of the display.

 <F5>

Magnify

Open or close the Magnifying Glass(See 2.2.10).  Allows user to magnify a section of the display window.

Image

Opens the Image Navigation(See 2.2.11) window.  Useful for navigating an image whose output size is larger than display area.

Watch

Opens the Watch Dialog(See 2.2.13) that allows the user to monitor volatile registers by re-reading them at a set time period.

Options

Opens the Options Dialog(See 2.2.15).

Play

Start displaying the image stream.

Pause

Pause the image stream.

Stop

Stop displaying the image stream.

Reset

(Soft) Reset the sensor to the power-on-defaults. This option loads the [reset] section from the appropriate .ini file.
Note: After resetting the sensor the user should re-load the default register settings by clicking the 'Init' button on the toolbar.

Init

Load the initialization register settings for the sensor. The register settings can be found in the [Demo Initialization] section from the appropriate .ini file.

Full Auto

Enable the default software color processing options.
Note: For Bayer sensors only.

Preview

Toggle the sensor between Preview (viewfinder), snapshot mode, and for sensors that support it video mode via a pull-down.
Note: Typically not supported for VGA size and smaller sensors.

Grab

Capture the displayed sensor image to hard disk or cancel an image capture.

 <F9>

Snapshot

Capture the "full resolution" image to hard disk or cancel an image capture.
For sensors that support them, there is a pull-down where features such as SnapShot-and-lock, Zero shutter lag, and Snapshot Over Video can be demonstrated

 <Ctrl-F9>

Record

Records the image stream to hard disk.
Note: The video is uncompressed and will take significant hard disk space. This mode is for characterization only.

A Power-Point remote clicker's page-down and page-up buttons can be to start/stop recording when the PC is equipped with the IR interface.

 <F8> or

page-down = record start

page-up =
record stop

In

Zoom in on the displayed image.
Note: Zooming beyond 2x might not be supported by your graphics adapter and could lead to image artifacts and potentially to program instability.

 <F10>

Out

Zoom out on the displayed image.

 <F11>

Full

Displays the image in a full screen mode. This feature supports the following standard display modes:
640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200 and 2048x1536
If the image from the sensor is not one of these sizes, the full screen mode will use the next larger size and fill in the extra area with black pixels. If the image is larger than the maximum size supported by the display device, it will shrink the image to fit. To return back to windowed mode, hit any key or click the mouse.

 <F12>

Bug

Generates a bug report that collects information directly related to the camera setup which is useful for debugging.

Home

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