User Manual - twentynine
5.4
Acquisition Control
The following section is about controlling the image acquisition of SMARTEK Vision digital cameras. It
contains a detailed description about the different acquisition modes, how to control external triggering and
how the image acquisition rate can be limited. Table 29 gives a brief overview about all features that are
available to control the image acquisition in the cameras.
Image Acquisition Features
Short description
AcquisitionMode
Defines the number of frames to be captured. Three options are
available:
•
Continuous
•
SingleFrame
•
MultiFrame
AcquisitionStart
Start acquisition
AcquisitionStop
Stop acquisition
AcquisitionAbort
Abort acquisition
AcquisitionFrameCount
Number of frames to acquire in MultiFrame acquisition mode
AcquisitionBurstFrameCount
Number of frames to acquire for each FrameBurstStart trigger
AcquisitionFrameRate
Controls the acquisition rate (in Hz) at which the frames are
captured
Trigger Features
Short description
TriggerMode
Enable/Disable the trigger mode. Two options are available:
•
On
•
Off
TriggerSoftware
Generate a software trigger
TriggerSource
Select the source that fires a trigger signal:
•
Line1: Physical Input Line 1
•
Line2: Physical Input Line 2
•
Software
TriggerActivation
Define the clock edge of the input signal for activate triggering
•
Rising Edge
•
Falling Edge
TriggerDelay
Specify the delay in microseconds (
µ
s) to incoming trigger
signals.
Table 29: Camera features for image acquisition control
5.4.1
Image Acquisition Features
The
Image Acquisition Features
chapter describes features related to image acquisition. An
Acquisition
is
defined as the capture of a sequence of one or many
Frames
or
Images
. The
Frames
of an
Acquisition
can
optionally be grouped in smaller
Bursts
that are triggered individually.
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