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Manual
CMOS Industrial Camera
®
LOGLUX i5 CL
Version 1.08 (July 2004)
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® Version 1.08 (04/07) Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Table of Contents LIST OF FIGURES..............................................................................................................................................3 LIST OF TABLES ...............................................................................................................................................3 REVISION INDEX............................
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® Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 Version 1.08 (04/07) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── List of figures â FIGURE 1 : FRONT AND REAR VIEW OF THE CMOS INDUSTRIAL CAMERA LOGLUX I5 CL............................................5 Ò FIGURE 2 : BLOCK DIAGRAM OF THE CMOS INDUSTRIAL CAMERA LOGLUX I5 CL .......................................................5 FIGURE 3 : EXAMPLE OF A VERY HIGH IMAGE CONTRAST RANGE..........................................................
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® Version 1.08 (04/07) Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Introduction This manual describes the installation and functions of the CMOS industrial camera LOGLUX i5 CL made by KAMERA WERK DRESDEN GmbH, as well as the software and hardware components which are additionally required for a camera system. The below chapters will enable the user to operate a camera system including a CMOS industrial camera LOGLUX i5 CL, and to fully
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® Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 Version 1.08 (04/07) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Ò The CMOS industrial camera LOGLUX i5 CL The CMOS industrial camera LOGLUX i5 CL is one of the latest and most modern products from the ‚industrial image processing CMOS camera‘ range of KAMERA WERK DRESDEN GmbH. The camera can be considered a logically consistent development of the well-known, universally applicable predecessor model LOGLUX HDRC4. Main features of the CM
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® Version 1.08 (04/07) Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The dynamic (contrast) range of the IBIS5 sensor In contrast to, say, CMOS sensors for multimedia applications, the IBIS5 has a very wide dynamic (contrast) range. This parameter describes the sensor's capability to show both very bright and very dark image parts in the active frame. The figure shows a CD ROM whose surface is diagonally lit by a ® lamp from the front, with the
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® Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 Version 1.08 (04/07) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Upon the completion of the last integration cycle, the residual potentials of the pixels are inverted and translated into digital numerical values. Please note that the multiple integration slope mode does not work when the rolling shutter mode is selected. There are four registers (PROFILE_INIT0 / PROFILE_INIT1 / PROFILE_INIT2 / PROFILE_INIT3) that allow the dynamic range of
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® Version 1.08 (04/07) Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The shutter modes of the IBIS5 sensor The IBIS5 has two shutter modes, viz. the rolling or curtain shutter mode and the synchronous or snapshot shutter mode. The working principles and resultant characteristics of the two shutter modes are described below. The working principle of the rolling or curtain shutter can be described by means of the following graphic representation:
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® Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 Version 1.08 (04/07) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ® The look-up tables (LUTs) of the CMOS industrial camera LOGLUX i5 CL The possibility of immediate real-time data manipulation in the camera is a great advantage of the CMOS industrial camera LOGLUX i5 CL. In addition to the fixed-programmed functions such as bit shifting operations, three user-specific, configurable look-up tables (LUTs) are available for the purpose. A LU
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® Version 1.08 (04/07) Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Ò Operation of the complete LOGLUX i5 CL SET camera system System requirements The following host system (PC/IPC) requirements must be met for a safe and proper operation of the complete LOGLUX i5 CL SET camera system: Minimum desktop PC system Optimum desktop PC system Portable PC system (notebook) Pentium III or Athlon™ Pentium III/IV or Athlon™XP Pentium III/IV or A
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® Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 Version 1.08 (04/07) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ™ If no difficulties occurred during installation, the CameraLink MVtitan-CL PC plug-in card is properly installed. ® ® Note: In general, no re-registration with Microsoft , the maker of the Windows operating system, ® ® (Microsoft safety system) will be necessary. Please make sure you use drivers certified by Microsoft where possible. See also the information of the plug-in
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® Version 1.08 (04/07) Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Ò Description of the LOGLUX LuxWare configuration tool The philosophy The LOGLUX LuxWare configuration tool automatically finds the interfaces of the PC/IPC system and the cameras connected to the system. The user selects the camera to be configured. Owing to the logical tree structure principle applied, the complex functions of the IBIS5 CMOS image ® sensor used in the CMOS
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® Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 Version 1.08 (04/07) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The start menu When starting the software for the first time, a window will appear after some time that shows the image processing (IP) hardware of the PC which is connected to the existing framegrabber, FireWire™ and/or RS-232 ports. A query window will appear in all following program starts, asking the user if the IP hardware settings of the previous program start are to be
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® Version 1.08 (04/07) Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The configuration menu The configuration window is subdivided into four panels. At the top of the window is a 'Disconnect' button which is used to return to the IP hardware scan. When the button is clicked, all settings of the currently used camera are stored. To the right of the button is an option field 'Advanced features' which allows additional configuration tools to be us
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® Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 Version 1.08 (04/07) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The 'Camera globals' menu This menu is used for renaming the selected camera, setting the communication speed, selecting the camera profile, and displaying two camera temperature values. The user can change the name of the selected camera in the 'Camera Name' input field. All upper-case and lower-case letters and numerals as well as the separating character '_' are available.
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® Version 1.08 (04/07) Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The 'Profile globals' menu The menu is used for renaming the selected camera profile, initializing the selected profile with one of the factory settings, or copying all parameters of a profile to the selected profile. The user can change the name of the selected profile in the 'Profile Name' input field. All upper-case and lower-case letters and numerals as well as the separat
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® Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 Version 1.08 (04/07) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The user profile parameters The 'Region of Interest' profile menu This menu is used for adjusting the image region (on the sensor) which is of interest to the user (region of interest), and for directly setting the maximum possible frame readout rate by means of the parameters X_Size (width of the ROI) and Y_Size (height of the ROI) since sensor pixels are scanned in the spec
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® Version 1.08 (04/07) Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The ‚Trigger‘ profile menu This menu is used for setting the trigger source and framegrabbing mode. Either an external signal applied to the trigger input of the camera (level step 0V ⇒ 24V, see chapter 'Technical specifications') or a trigger mechanism built into the camera can be selected as trigger source for framegrabbing. In the latter case, a free running or register-con
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® Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 Version 1.08 (04/07) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The ‚Switchport‘ profile menu This menu serves the setting of the signal sources, switch signal delay, switch signal length, and polarity of a switch signal using one of the two camera switchports (0 and 1). The source of a switch signal applied to a switchport is selected under ‘Switch signal source‘: • Off → No signal source is assigned to the selected switchport. • Trigger
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® Version 1.08 (04/07) Manual: CMOS Industrial Camera LOGLUX i5 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The ‚Exposure‘ profile menu The conversion function of the camera in the central shutter mode is set in this menu; this means most of the settings will not be available until the 'Synchronous shutter (snapshot)' mode is activated in the 'Sensor' profile menu. For a reasonable and fast selection of the options in this menu, the respective chapter in the camera manual (The dynam
