Basler Adds Automatic Features And A Lot More To Its scout And Pilot Cameras
Basler is implementing an enhanced set of features on the scout and pilot series to strengthen and leverage these camera families. Basler will add the new features on all scout and pilot cameras produced after August 2008. This means that more than 50 different scout models and ten different pilot models will be fully equipped with the new features during production. Thanks to Basler's compliance with the GeniCam standard, existing customers can make use of the new features without making changes to their software. Naturally, the new features will be included on every new camera at no additional cost and will be fully compatible with cameras that have recent firmware revisions.
"We want to continue making integration easier and to provide even better image processing results. With this step, Basler continues along this path by adding the new Auto Features Suite as well as image averaging to the cameras." explains Henning Tiarks, Product Manager at Basler Components.
Auto Features for Basler scout and pilot cameras
The Auto Features Suite controls several camera functions. It is the "automatic" counterpart of certain existing features, such as gain and white balance, which normally require manual adjustment of the related parameter values. Auto functions are particularly useful when an image property must be adjusted quickly to achieve a specific target value and when a specific target value must be kept constant in a series of images.
The following Auto Features are included in the suite:
- Automatic Gain Control
- Automatic Exposure Control
- Automatic White Balance Control
These auto features will make a significant improvement in the ease of use of Basler scout and pilot cameras in many applications where lighting changes may occur, for example, in outdoor applications. By using the Auto White Balancing Control, the color reproduction and brilliance of the captured images will be increased yielding great color imaging results.
The Averaging feature on pilot cameras
The pilot camera family will be equipped with an Averaging feature that lets the customer obtain an image that is the average of a specified number of consecutively acquired individual images. Up to 256 individual images can be averaged inside the pilot camera.
When averaging is active, the pixel values for each pixel will be summed and the total for each pixel will be divided by the number of individual images acquired. Using this feature can yield a higher signal-to-noise ratio, and therefore the feature is often also known as the "High SNR" feature.
Supported by Basler's pylon Driver Package
Basler's pylon driver package supports both GigE and FireWire cameras. The pylon SDK enables straightforward integration by providing extensive documentation and code samples that can often be simply cut and pasted into existing applications. The pylon driver technology developed by Basler has been proven in several thousand camera installations over the last year and has gained a well-deserved reputation for low CPU load, robustness, and ease-of-use.
Comprehensive documentation and a free-of-charge viewer tool and driver make it easy to start using and integrating Basler scout and pilot cameras.
Basler Components designs and manufactures digital cameras for industrial, medical, and traffic system applications, and also for the video surveillance market. Products include color and monochrome line scan, area scan, and intelligent cameras as well as innovative and flexible IP cameras. Basler has more than 20 years of experience in image processing. We have designed and manufactured high quality digital cameras for over 10 years. Product designs are driven by industry requirements and offer easy interfacing, compact size, and a strong price/performance ratio.
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SOURCE: Basler