Chapter 23: Grabbing with your digitizer

This chapter discusses how to grab images using a digitizer allocated on your imaging board and the features available when grabbing.

• Cameras and video sources
• Basic concepts for the MIL digitizers module
• Data format
• Device number
• • Using a frame grabber
  • Using a network camera
• Multiple cameras
• • Simultaneous acquisition
  • Data input channels of acquisition paths
  • Switching between cameras of the same type
  • Switching between cameras of different types
  • Ultra-fast channel switching
  • Channel locking and unlocking
• Grabbing a single field
• Line-scan cameras
• Grabbing to the display
• Grabbing a sequence of frames in real-time
• Grabbing and processing
• • Grab mode
  • Multiple buffering
• Grabbing large images
• Reference levels, lookup tables, and scaling
• • Black and white reference levels
  • Color image reference levels
  • Mapping grabbed data through a LUT
  • Scaling
• Grabbing with triggers
• • Simple triggered grab
  • Triggered grab with a camera in asynchronous reset mode
  • • Triggering on level high or level low
• Auto-focusing
• • Optimum focus search strategies
  • • Bisection strategy
    • Refocus strategy
    • Scan-All strategy
    • Smart-scan strategy
  • Evaluate the focus indicator
• Simulated digitizer
• Using MIL with GenICam
• • Basic concepts when dealing with GenICam's SFNC
  • Steps to view your GenICam SFNC-compatible camera's features
  • Using GenICam with Camera Link cameras