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ezPyro

TM

 Gesture/Motion Evaluation Kit User Manual  

 

 

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© Copyright Pyreos Ltd. 2020 

ezPyro

TM

 User Manual Rev. 1.0 

 

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Introduction  

This document describes the ezPyro

TM

 Gesture/Motion Recognition Evaluation Kits and the related software. The 

purpose of these kits is to enable engineers and technicians to carry out simple and effective evaluation of ezPyro

TM

 

Gesture/Motion sensors, experiment with a sample Gesture/Motion Recognition algorithm, and to capture 
measured data to a PC.  

There are four variants of the ezPyro

TM

 Gesture/Motion Recognition Evaluation Kit, see Table 1. 

The kits are based on the ST microelectronics STM32F303K8 microcontroller. 

Please note: The software discussed in this document can only be used with the ezPyro

TM

 Gesture/Motion 

Recognition Evaluation Kits. 

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Getting Started 

2.1

 

Hardware Variants 

 

Evaluation Kit 
Name 

Evaluation 
Kit Code 

Number of 
Pixels 

Aperture 
size 

Optics 

Algorithm 

ezPyro

TM

 Long 

Range Gesture 

dPYEGE01 

2x2 

1.65 mm 

Lens 
(f=6.35mm)  

Directional 

ezPyro

TM

 Mid-

Range Gesture 

dPYEGE02 

2x2 

0.90mm 

Window 
Only 

Directional 

ezPyro

TM

 

Motion/Presence 
Recognition  

dPYEMO01  1 

1.65mm  

Lens 
(f=19.5mm) 

Non-
Directional 

ezPyro

TM

 Motion 

Direction  

dPYEMO02  2x2 

1.65mm  

Lens 
(f=19.5mm) 

Directional 

Table 1: ezPyro

TM

 Motion/Gesture Recognition Evaluation Kit variants 

Figure 2: ezPyro

TM

 Long Range Gesture Kit

 

Figure 1: ezPyro

TM

 Mid-Range Gesture Kit 

Figure 3: ezPyro

TM

 Motion Kits 

Summary of Contents for ezPyro dPYEGE01

Page 1: ...Rev 1 0 ezPyro Gesture Motion Evaluation Kit User Manual For low cost low power non contact mid IR gesture and motion presence sensing...

Page 2: ...THE DEMO KIT 5 6 RUNNING THE SOFTWARE 6 6 1 DIFFERENT VARIATIONS 7 7 NAVIGATING THE MENUS 10 7 1 ALGORITHM TAB 10 7 2 ASIC CONTROL TAB 11 7 3 WAKE UP TAB 12 7 4 GO TO SLEEP 13 7 5 SYSTEM TAB 14 8 GEST...

Page 3: ...on the ST microelectronics STM32F303K8 microcontroller Please note The software discussed in this document can only be used with the ezPyroTM Gesture Motion Recognition Evaluation Kits 2 Getting Star...

Page 4: ...Windows PC all versions supported currently 2 GB of RAM 3 450 MB of available hard disk space for installation additional free space required for storing CSV files 4 1024x768 display 1280 x 1024 reco...

Page 5: ...32bit system This will install the USB driver for the ST microcontroller that is connected to the ezPyroTM board Once the driver has been installed the USB cable can be connected between the ezPyroTM...

Page 6: ...d If more than one COM port is listed this can be checked by disconnecting the device and refreshing the list Re connect and refresh the list then select the COM port that has appeared and click OK On...

Page 7: ...The left side of the window then shows the current sensing mode The button for the active mode gesture direction or presence is highlighted in blue Using kits dPYEGE01 dPYEGE02 or dPYEMO02 allows acc...

Page 8: ...produced by each of the pixels in the sensor as shown in Figure 11 The scope settings can be altered using the sliding scales on the x axis and the y axis Figure 11 Scope layout By selecting Oscillos...

Page 9: ...of 20 Copyright Pyreos Ltd 2020 ezPyroTM User Manual Rev 1 0 The main window also contains a console which displays detected messages as well as any changes or errors such as initial start up mode or...

Page 10: ...can be changed Window Size This is window width in samples used to detect event A larger window width allows slower events to be detected A smaller window width means that an event is still registere...

Page 11: ...tion They can be set independently to allow the user complete control over every aspect of the device that can be set The gain is set by selecting a capacitor to be used in the charge amplifier within...

Page 12: ...e is in sleep mode Thresholds 1 4 The wake up works by requiring the signal to be within the range of threshold 1 and 2 or within threshold 3 and 4 for a certain number of samples Number of Samples Th...

Page 13: ...ected the window goes grey and none of the settings can be accessed This is to ensure that the Evaluation Kit does not use excessive power when not actively in use To wake the Evaluation Kit up an eve...

Page 14: ...ezPyroTM User Manual Rev 1 0 7 5 System Tab Figure 20 System tab window The System tab allows the user to set the orientation of the device to ensure directions of events are correctly displayed The i...

Page 15: ...background temperature it is recommended to reduce the sensitivity in the settings window as will be described later 8 1 Gesture Trigger Threshold option Setting the threshold for gestures to be lowe...

Page 16: ...n object of higher temperature than the background radiation has come into or moved out of the FOV of the sensor The main window in both versions of Presence Recognition consists of one scope as only...

Page 17: ...available 9 2 Presence Algorithm The algorithm used for a presence being detected is an analysis of the rate of change of the signal A group of 3 data points are averaged and then the following 3 data...

Page 18: ...er Mode Figure 25 Low Power Mode Figure 26 Normal Power Mode There are two power modes available By default the software runs in low power mode This offers a faster sampling rate and a smoother respon...

Page 19: ...or browse to the required folder By default files are saved to the Pyreos folder if it exists or Documents if it does not The Pyreos folder is created automatically in the Documents folder the first t...

Page 20: ...splay file and version information about the ezPyroTM Gesture Motion Sensing Evaluation Tool software Figure 29 About box 13 Further Information and Support The Pyreos website has a list resources ava...

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