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Camera control
Smart features to control the camera and external devices
Control external devices from the camera or trigger an action in the camera from outside: With our comprehensive Smart Features for camera control, both are possible. This allows, for example, maximum performance potential to be exploited, the setup to be simplified and the installation effort as well as hardware, software or even development costs to be decisively reduced.
The smart features of camera control at a glance
Counter / Timer / Logic Gates
Often referred to as micro PLCs or hardware real-time controllers, these gates enable time-critical I/O and acquisition control, thus replacing PLC control.
With their help it is possible to e.g.
generate trigger signals flexibly
synchronize multiple cameras
quickly generate image sequences with different flash and exposure settings
capture dark and light images for reference image subtraction
control exposures for images with different wavelengths (R/G/IR)
eliminate interferences by digital filter circuits (inputs)
Thus, counters / timers / logic gates replace flash controllers and other control components, enable convenient operation of these controllers/components via the camera software, and simplify the cabling of your application.
Event Control
This feature allows a host application to be notified when an internal event has occurred. Possible triggers can be the end of sensor exposure (Exposure End), rising edges at the digital inputs (Rising Edge) or the end of a frame (Frame End). In this way, Event Control optimizes process flows and increases speed.
Lens Control
Motorized lenses can be controlled very easily: Using a wizard, sliders can be used to set focus, zoom and iris as well as the speed at which the changes are transmitted to the lens.
Temperature monitoring
To ensure that the cameras start reliably at both the highest and lowest temperatures and deliver flawless images throughout the entire temperature cycle, sensors in our cameras monitor the temperature. Via a programmable alarm, they can generate start signals for external cooling measures, for example, if the worst comes to the worst.
User data in the camera
Each of our cameras has a free, non-volatile RAM memory where you can store customer-specific data such as serial numbers or also save configuration data.