ST STV674/502V-R01, User Notes

Page 1: ...y be used as a reference to allow the generation of user manuals for products based on this design Order Codes Table 1 Order Codes Part Number Description STV 674 502V R01 STV0674 USB Flash Drive board featuring the miniature VS6502VF lensed VGA color CMOS sensor module STV0674T100 Digital video co processor 100TQFP package VS6502V015 T2 VGA CMOS color image sensor module ...

Page 2: ... 5 3 1 Untethered Operation 6 3 2 Tethered Operation 7 Chapter 4 Software Installation 8 4 1 NMS mode 8 4 2 Webcam mode 8 Chapter 5 DirectCap 10 5 1 Video Audio device 10 5 2 File Menu 11 5 3 Edit menu 11 5 4 Properties menu 12 5 5 Clock menu 12 5 6 Help menu 12 Chapter 6 AVICreate 13 Chapter 7 Firmware Upgrade 17 Chapter 8 Firmware Identification 18 Revision history 19 ...

Page 3: ... where appropriate to describe the Flash Board and associated software operation See Section Basic Camera Operation for details on how to select between each mode 1 1 Key Features WebCam Mode No stand alone operation must be plugged into USB DirectShow Driver Support Real time video up to 30fps VGA Real time audio DirectCap sample DirectShow application NMS Mode Still image capture Movie clip capt...

Page 4: ...tible Win98SE WinME Win2K SP3 WinXP SP1 Operating System DirectX 8 1 or later Graphics Adapter capable of 800x600 resolution 64k colours thousands of colours PII 266 with 64M RAM Win98 ME or 128MRAM Win2K XP No support yet for Mac NMS mode IBM PC or compatible Win98SE WinME Win2K SP3 WinXP SP1 Mac OSX MacOS9 ...

Page 5: ... the side and the Power On button on the front close to the USB Power connection Operation is described as untethered stand alone when the board is not plugged into USB and operation is controlled via the on board UI only or tethered when the board is connected to a PC via USB and uses the power supplied by USB Untethered operation requires a AAA battery on a separate PCB to provide power which is...

Page 6: ...1 will flicker for writes For WebCam mode hold MODE on power up till both LEDs are RED buttons are disabled For memory full then stop action low beep and UI returns to stills Power down timeout set for 20 seconds of inactivity Low Battery indicated by flashing RED LED1 Webcam Mode Webcam mode is available only when tethered Please see the following section Figure 2 LED based UI Press Shutter Take ...

Page 7: ...ash board enumerates as a webcam when the MODE button is held down while the device is plugged in to USB The user must hold the MODE button until both LEDs have a red display As the webcam is a Composite USB Device when it has successfully enumerated it appears in Windows Device Manager in two separate locations 1 In the Imaging Device key as NMS Video Camera webcam 2 In the Sound video and game c...

Page 8: ... be performed before the camera is plugged in The PC is assumed to already have DirectX 8 1 or better installed Note DirectX 8 1 is installed automatically with WinXP For all other OS s the user may have to upgrade to v8 1 manually ST recommends that DirectX 8 1 or later is provided on the software installation CD DirectX is available in a re distributable installation from the Microsoft Website a...

Page 9: ...t Note 1 After installing on Win98 Gold the PC will require a reboot before the audio device may be used 2 While installing video drivers on Win98 Gold SE the user will be prompted for the original Win98 CD to find some files used by the DirectShow system The user should have this CD ready and insert it into the CDROM driver when prompted The requested files may be found on the Win98 CD under Win9...

Page 10: ...art streaming audio select USB Audio Device from the pull down menu under Audio Device then press the Start button To stop press the Stop button Note that on WinXP the OS displays the device name from a string in the firmware and so it appears as ST instead of USB Audio Device This may be customised for OEM products Video and audio may be streamed simultaneously but the preview shows a short time ...

Page 11: ... AVI file will be saved Stream to File This option becomes available after a filename has been selected Once stream to file is selected the next time the Start button is pressed the audio and video data is written to file until the Stop button is pressed Exit Stops video audio and closes the application 5 3 Edit menu No options are available under this menu at present Figure 4 The stream to file o...

Page 12: ...late standard video properties such as brightness contrast saturation white balance and banding filter 50Hz or 60Hz Video Capture Pin This property page is provided by DirectX and is standard to all DirectShow drivers It allows the user to select options such as framerate and video resolution 5 5 Clock menu Not implemented at present 5 6 Help menu The help menu provides access to the About box whi...

Page 13: ...f the application will be made in the local Program Files directory The user may then directly manipulate STJ files from Windows Explorer as described in Section File Association If the user does not require this functionality then they must select Do not ask me again and click No The application must then be run directly to convert STJs as described in Section File Association Once registered the...

Page 14: ... be converted to AVI format The AVI file will be created in the current directory and will retain the same name as the original STJ but with the new AVI file extension The STJ file is removed after the AVI has been successfully created The AVI file is then automatically played by the systems default media player Create AVI in My Documents A new AVI file is created the users My Documents folder The...

Page 15: ...hows all the stj files that reside in the source location The list supports multiple selection in the usual Windows fashion using the ctrl and shift keys One or more files may be selected before pressing the create button to convert to AVI file format Alternatively the user may double click on a file to convert it AVI Target Location right The edit box at the top right presents the standard My Doc...

Page 16: ...ion and the user must use this application again to convert on any new PC Create centre Press this button to convert all selected stj files in the source list to avi s Create All centre Press this button to convert all the stj files listed in the source list to avi s Cancel centre This option becomes available during avi creation and when pressed causes the current operation to stop Play centre Pr...

Page 17: ...e PC when you run the EXE otherwise you will be prompted to remove them Only plug one device into the PC at a time It is recommended that the device be plugged directly into the PC s inbuilt USB ports Avoid using a hub during firmware upgrade After upgrade it is recommended that the device be reformatted using the UI format option If using a customised version of firmware that does not support for...

Page 18: ...tomised firmware driver has a different OEM name The generic USB FlashDrive included in this package has an OEM of 679 The OEM name for a particular customised driver firmware may be found from the name of the webcam driver files eg stvxxx sys where xxx is the OEM name If in doubt contact your ST support engineer Display Click this button to connect to the camera and display the patch information ...

Page 19: ...type 0 05 4 Jun 03 Firmware release updated to STD002 Updated support to include MacOS9 Updated to dm1201xv webcam driver Updated to v1 03 AVICreate Updated to clearnand2 Includes Win98 NMS driver Added some advisory notes for webcam driver installation on Win98 Updated to DirectCap 1 17 1 00 2 Oct 03 Includes reference to 502 SmOP board Now uses firmware upgrade EXE Updated to dm1202xv webcam dri...

Page 20: ...ice This publication supersedes and replaces all information previously supplied STMicroelectronics products are not authorized for use as critical components in life support devices or systems without the express written approval of STMicroelectronics The ST logo is a registered trademark of STMicroelectronics All other names are the propertiy of their respective owners 2004 STMicroelectronics Al...