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1. OEMLocatorDLL This application shows typical Locator integration for OEM projects using DLL layer only Since DLL layer do not expose any Graphical User Interface this example also shows how to display HexSight images and Locator results It also includes an implementation of a custom model edition window using programmatic calls to the DLL interface Color Locator Demo This demo shows the potential of the Locator in regards with Color detection Not only can the Locator detect edges that may be invisible when converted to greyscale but it can also differentiate the instance based on the color of the model Color Target Inspection This application demonstrates the use of the ColorFinder tool to inspect the color of HexSight Quick Start Guide specific areas of the image By adding filters corresponding to particular colors you can easily say if a colored area is within the acceptable tolerance defined 17 Demonstration Mode The HexSight Demonstration Mode is provided for the purpose of evaluating our software This mode is automatically enabled when you run HexSight without the hardware protection key that is provided with the purchase of a HexSight software package This demonstration mode has some features removed yet will allow you to evaluate the functionality and power of HexSight Opening and Running in Demo Mode 1 When you first open HexSight in demo mode a pop up window appears advising2. Agree Chose and installation folder and click Next Select a start menu folder and click Install HexSight will now install When the installation is complete click Close to exit the installation program HexSight Quick Start Guide Enabling Gocator s HexSight License As of version 5 0 1 any Gocator sensor can act as a dongle to unlock a HexSight Professional license This however requires that a Gocator with firmware 4 0 and above be reachable from the running system GoSdk dll and kApi dll are needed to interface to HexSight GoSdk dll and kApi dll are included in the Gocator SDK package 14400 X x X xX SOFTWARE GO SDK of each Gocator firmware release Before running HexSight follow these steps 32 bit installation of HexSight 1 On a 32 bit installation of HexSight copy GoSdk dll and kApi dll from the bin win32 directory of the Gocator SDK package into the Controls directory of the HexSight installation directory e g C Program Files HexSight 5 0 Controls 2 Reboot the PC 64 bit installation of HexSight 1 Ona 64 bit installation of HexSight copy GoSdk dll and kApi dll from the bin win32 directory of the Gocator SDK package into the Controls directory of HexSight in the Common Files folder under Program HexSight Quick Start Guide Files x86 e g C Program Files x86 Common Files HexSight 5 0 Controls 2 Copy GoSdk dll and kApi dll from the bin win64 directory of the Gocator
3. SDK package into the Controls directory of the HexSight installation directory e g C Program Files HexSight 5 0 Controls 3 Reboot the PC Uninstalling HexSight 1 In the Control Panel of your computer select Uninstall or change a program 2 Find HexSight 5 0 in the list of programs select it and then click Remove 3 Click Uninstall to confirm the removal 4 When the removal is completed close the Uninstall or change a program window Installing Devices IEEE 1394 Device DirectShow Device Any IEEE 1394 camera FireWire with a DirectShow driver is supported All DirectShow standard parameters are accessible programmatically No specific installation procedure is required IEEE 1394 Device DCAM Device Any IEEE 1394 camera FireWire using the DCAM standard is supported It allows for a greater control over the device than with simply the DirectShow driver but requires the installation of the CMU DCAM Driver GigE Vision Cameras HexSight supports all GigE Vision cameras The drivers are installed automatically when you add your camera to your application For more information please see the Acquisition Device chapter of the HexSight User s Manual Gocator Sensors Gocator sensors running Gocator firmware 4 0 and above are natively supported in HexSght The 3D information is captured directly in HexSight for additional vision inspection capabilities Initially only a limite
4. as automated calibration and model teaching Examples of application projects are provided for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 or higher development environment Board Location This application identifies and locates a printed circuit board PCB The application demonstrates how to create a model in which one big feature is used to locate the object and a second smaller feature is required to correctly identify the orientation of the object A Sampling tool samples the image from a model based region on the located boards This sampled image is used as an input to a second Locator tool which then checks for the presence of a small label printed on the PCB Board Location Model Based This application is similar to the Board Location example However this example uses a Model Based Locator instead of a Sampling tool to identify subfeatures on the object HexSight Quick Start Guide Bracket Inspection This application identifies locates and inspects four different models of flat brackets The Blob Analyzer tool finds the center of mass of each hole on the bracket Parts are rejected if the position of any of its holes are not within tolerance ranges Calibration Demo This application shows how to use the calibration objects HSCalibrationXYScaleInterface HSCalibrationPerspectiveInterface and HSCalibrationDistortionInterface to implement automated calibration programmatically without showing the interactive
5. user interface Contour Detection This application shows how to access the calibrated and uncalibrated contour data extracted from an image by the Locator The application also shows how to use properties of the extracted contour data such as perimeter and area to manually detect circular shapes in the image This can be used for example to detect dots during a custom calibration procedure using a non standard target 15 Contour Draw Demo This application shows how to manually draw the detected contours model and instance into a standard Visual Studio graphics object by directly accessing the contour data generated by the Locator through the HsScene object Image Processing This application shows how the Image Processing tool can be used to apply operations to an image such as noise filtering before the image is output to the Locator tool Locator Demo This demo provides a ready built application useful for testing HexSight with your own images This demo also contains configurations to illustrate Model Optimization and the Shading consistency feature Finder Demo This demo provides an example of the use of HexSight Finder Tools Arc Finder Line Finder Point Finder and Builder Model Demo This application shows how to use the HSModelEditorInterface object to implement automated model teaching programmatically without showing the interactive user interface 16 Pad Inspection This applicati
6. 1 ES M E 0 000 0 009 Acquistion Configuration Active Coigusion Fe Emisin SCS Emulation Database Data Padinspection PadSingleimages Load Inspect I Continuous Mode Instance Type Width Height o BrakePad 11780 4712 1 BrakePad 11782 4704 Time msec 11 99 Qut Model Based Tools on Found Parts Properties The characteristics of an object Scene A vectorized description of an object s contours as opposed to an Image which is made up of pixels View A collection of Scenes Images and Entities By analogy one could say that a View is a folder that can contain Scenes Images or Entities HexSight Quick Start Guide What is a HexSight Application A HexSight application is composed of a sequence of processes which can also be visualized as tools or modules each having its own function or purpose Each of the processes exchange data through the runtime database A typical HexSight application contains at least the following two processes the Acquisition Device tool and the Locator tool These processes perform the following basic operations 1 The Acquisition Device acquires an image of the work surface Acquired images can be calibrated within the Acquisition Device interface 2 The Locator tool generates a vectorized Contour Scene from the Images provided by the Acquisition Device The Locator finds and locates in the Contour Scene al
7. Quick Start Guide HexSight Quick Start Guide Copyright Copyright c 1998 2015 by LMI Technologies Disclaimer LMI Technologies shall not be responsible for any errors that may appear in this document and shall not be liable for any damages arising out of or related to this document or the information contained in it even if LMI Technologies has been advised of the possibility of such damages Trademark Information HexSight is a trademark of LMI Technologies The following are trademarks or registered trademarks of the associated company NET ActiveX COM C C DirectShow DirectX MFC Notepad Visual Basic Visual C Visual Studio Windows Windows XP Windows Vista HTML Help Microsoft Corporation Acrobat Reader PDF Adobe Systems Incorporated DCAM IIDC 1394 Trade Association Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers FireWire Apple Computer Inc GenlCam European Machine Vision Association GigE Vision Automated Imaging Association GretagMacbeth ColorChecker X Rite Inc Pentium MMX Intel Corporation Gocator LMI Technologies Table Of Contents Table OF Contents ranson oe p p DR I RE e M tus A EE AIR MP E 1 dst ERO ertc LEUUUTTTTMTTTM 1 System Requirements xoci eer erbe Rex I DR RGR KRIR XN DEDRIRITARE RO NO RRRPRPKEPEIERE 2 DEVIGESUP PORE iactatus sa ae rooegiah aede ista p o rua nA br RS RUE 3 Installing HexSight Software eese eene nennen nennen nnne 4 Before Instal
8. and locates instances of a pattern occurring within an Image Pattern images are provided by the HexSight Locator control Blob Analyzer The Blob Analyzer finds and locates blobs within a defined area on an Image and returns various results for each blob ColorFinder The Color Finder searches and analyzes images to find areas of color that match user defined filters HexSight Quick Start Guide Output Tools Evaluator Tool The Evaluator Tool converts results from other tools to a Pass Fail decision by using threshold comparison and or mathematical operations Output Tool The Output Tool schedules an event on a digital IO of a LMI Gocator device based on a Pass result from the Evaluator Tool Symbology Tools Barcode Reader The Barcode Reader reads and extracts information from 1D symbologies commonly known as bar codes Data Matrix Reader The Data Matrix Reader reads and extracts information from 2D symbologies commonly known as data matrixes OCR Fixed Font The OCR Fixed Font tool recognizes and reads OCR A OCR B or SEMI font character strings 13 Color Support and Functionality in HexSight HexSight provides support for acquiring and using color images The color license adds color capabilities to various HexSight tools and processes Color Image Acquisition The Acquire Image tool accepts and outputs color images provided by supported color cameras Color Calibration In applications wher
9. d number of tools are able to process the heightmaps Locator Image tools Other tools can use the conversion method in the ImageProcessing tool to obtain greyscale images For more information please see the Acquisition Device chapter of the HexSight User s Manual HexSight Quick Start Guide Basic HexSight Terminology Configuration A configuration is a set of HexSight tool instances and the configured properties of each tool Configuration files are saved to the HexSight CFG format In the Acquisition Device a Configuration is a set of parameters for a given input source Database A collection of Views which can contain any number of database objects Scenes Images and Entities The runtime database acts as a database exchange container for the HexSight processes Runtime Database a C3 Acquisition View folder E Grey Scale Image B C Model E Puley lt Image object Bil Pulley B Locator E Instance Scene Scene object 2 Finder H Pono lt Entity object Bl Point Bl Point2 H Line Arc E Arc Ei 73 Builder Bl Pointo GUI representation of a runtime database Disambiguate Applied to object location disambiguation means to resolve the ambiguity between many possible solutions by using one or more distinguishing characteristics or features HexSight Quick Start Guide of an object For example The Locator tool can easily disambiguate between
10. e accurate color is required color calibration ensures that the input images contain accurate color information The built in Color Calibration Wizard steps you through color calibration and requires a standard GretagMacbeth ColorChecker target Color Locator The Locator can be configured to differentiate between object based on their color In the model building process a custom color shading area can be defined for each object This shading area allows the Locator to use color information when locating objects Color Processing with Inspection Tools Most inspection and finder tools can process images on the basis of color 14 e The Edge Locator Arc Edge Locator Caliper and Arc Caliper tools use color information to extract edges e The Arc Finder Line Finder and Point Finder tools use color information to extract edges for finding geometric entities arc lines points e The Blob Analyzer can use Hue Saturation and Luminance values to define blobs Color Finder Tool The Color Finder tool can identify the presence or absence of defined colors and analyze the predominance of colors in images For example it can be used to differentiate similarly shaped objects of different colors HexSight Quick Start Guide Project Examples Provided with HexSight The HexSight Development package provides complete examples of machine vision applications These examples show how to implement specific features such
11. is is accomplished the following way 1 From the Microsoft Visual Studio menu bar select Project Add Reference 2 Select the COM tab and enable the required HexSight controls 3 Click OK The controls are added to project s references and can now be accessed programmatically Note A HexSight control cannot be declared as a component and as a reference at the same time 11 HexSight Toolkit HexSight provides comprehensive set of vision tools for object finding inspection image processing and more Acquisition Tools Acquisition Device The Acquisition Device acquires images from a frame grabber or from a database of images Locator Tools Locator The Locator tool finds and locates objects that are defined by models Models are created using the integrated Editor and saved to database files The Locator provides the scale factor orientation and position for each located object Arc Finder The Arc Finder finds and locates circular features on objects and returns the coordinates of the center of the arc the start and end angles and the radius Line Finder The Line Finder finds and locates linear features on objects and returns the line angle and point coordinates Point Finder The Point Finder finds and locates point features on objects and returns the angle as well as the coordinates of the found point 12 Builder The Builder creates geometric entities such as points lines or arcs f
12. ite for download http www mi3d com Before Installing HexSight Ensure that your system meets the minimum system requirements specified in the previous section Ensure that you have Administrator privileges on your PC You must have permission to write to the necessary system registry sections To acquire live images in HexSight you will need a compatible device If you are using a DirectShow device we strongly recommend that you install the original driver for the device before installing HexSight Please refer to the documentation provided with the device to ensure that you follow the appropriate procedure If you are using HexSight in demonstration Demo mode and or you do not have a dongle or Gocator with firmware 4 0 and above you will only be able to run existing applications such as the example applications and the tutorial example provided with HexSight Any changes made to parameters in an application will be lost once you close the application Visual Studio 2003 or higher should be installed on your PC before installing HexSight Close any other open applications Installing HexSight 1 If you have an older version of HexSight installed on your system you must first uninstall this version before installing the new one See Uninstalling HexSight Execute the HexSight installer file When the welcome window is displayed choose Next Read the Licence agreement and then click I
13. l occurrences of objects of defined in the Model database Models are created and edited in the Locator interface Inspection tools such as the Caliper can be added to these two basic processes depending on the task to be performed HexSight Quick Start Guide Creating a HexSight Application A typical HexSight application is created by placing a HexSight Application control on a blank Visual Studio form The steps required to complete such a task are 1 10 Select the HexSight Application control icon in the Visual Studio toolbox and place this control on a blank form If the icon is not available in the toolbox see Adding a Component to the Toolbox for more details r1 e E View Code J Lock Controls Activex Edit Click here to access the Process Manager Opening the Process Manager Drag a square with the mouse on the form and release the left mouse button to place the HexSight Application Control Right click the HexSight Application Control in the form and select ActiveX Edit to display the Process Manager window The Process Manager is used to instantiate and configure the sequence of processes The Process Manager interface contains two lists Available Processes which lists all HexSight process types and Instantiated Processes which contains the names of the processes used in the current application HexSight Application Control HSImageSharpnes
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16. on identifies and locates brake pads on the work surface and performs two measurements on each located pad This application provides an example of how the Caliper tool can be used to perform linear measurements Part Sort This application provides the type position and orientation of 4 different parts that are randomly placed on the work surface Multiple parts can be identified and located at the same time These parts do not have to be of the same type In addition to multi model capabilities this application also illustrates how to configure the Locator tool for robustness to occlusions Pulley Location This application identifies and locates a pulley on the work surface The Locator identifies the four possible rotational symmetries An Edge Locator tool locates the pulley s keyway to identify the correct orientation An Arc Edge Locator is used to measure the angular position of the four spokes of the pulley with respect to its keyway Regulator Inspection This application sorts and inspects electronic parts The Pattern Locator tool HexSight Quick Start Guide is used to disambiguate the two models of T0220 regulators that are used Distances between the legs of each regulator are measured using the Edge Locator tool and part is rejected if the distance between two legs is not within tolerance ranges OEMLocatorGeneric This application shows typical Locator integration for OEM projects using Activex layer
17. personnel and promptly answered Telephone You can contact the HexSight technical support between 9 00 A M and 5 00 P M PST at 1 604 636 1011 HexSight Quick Start Guide
18. rom user defined parameters or by combining other geometric entities Image Processing Tools Image Processing Tool The Image Processing Tool processes images by applying arithmetic assignment logical filtering morphological or histogram operators Users can define custom filtering operators Image Sharpness Tool The Image Sharpness Tool computes the sharpness of preponderant edges in a user defined region of interest Image Histogram Tool The Image Histogram tool computes greylevel statistics within a user defined region of interest Sampling Tool The sampling tool is used to extract a section of an image and output it as a separate Image The sampling tool can be configured to operate as model based It can be used by a HexSight application to apply a custom processing on a region of interest on an object HexSight Quick Start Guide Inspection Tools Edge Locator The Edge Locator finds and locates an edge or a set of edges that meet user defined criteria Arc Edge Locator The Arc Edge Locator finds and locates an edge or a set of edges on an arc or circular shaped area Caliper The Caliper finds and locates one or more edge pairs and measures distances between the two edges within each pair Arc Caliper The Arc Caliper finds and locates one or more edge pairs on an arc or circular shaped area and measures distances between the two edges within each pair Pattern Locator The Pattern Locator finds
19. s HSSampingTool 5i Available Tools process instances HexSight used by the current application processes Process Manager Window HexSight Quick Start Guide Adding a Component to the Toolbox To modify the content of a HexSight application you must add a HexSight Application control to a Windows form This enables you to access the Process Manager and the Explorer interfaces in design mode or in runtime You should also add at least one HexSight Display control to the form This will allow you to visualize results in runtime mode To add a control to the toolbox 1 From the toolbox context menu select Choose Items 2 Select the COM Components tab and scroll down to find HSApplication Control Enable its check box and click OK The HexSight Application Control appears as a lens shutter icon in the toolbox Note In a Visual Basic program a variable cannot be declared as a given HexSight control type if it is declared as a component Nevertheless any object created by pasting a control selected as a component on a Visual Basic form can be accessed programmatically using the name of the object The following HexSight control types should be used as components e Application control Display control HexSight Quick Start Guide Referencing a Control To create HexSight objects programmatically all HexSight control types used in the user s program must be referenced Th
20. ults 2nd Edge Scor Polarity Dak toi lioitlor Either Score Thresh System Requirements To run HexSight on your computer the Hardware Requirements following hardware and software are f e Processor Pentium II or higher required e Hard Drive space From 100 MB to 500 Software Requirements MB depending on selected components e Operating system Windows XP with Service Pack 3 Windows Vista x86 or x64 or Windows 7 x86 or x64 e Display Minimum resolution 1024 x 768 pixels Colors 65 536 e Memory RAM 128 MB e Visual Studio NET 2003 or higher or other ActiveX compliant environments e Ethernet port for GigE Vision devices e DirectX 8 0 or later is required for IEEE e Firewire port for DCAM cameras 1394 FireWire or USB cameras e Carnegie Mellon University CMU DCAM driver is required for IEEE 1394 FireWire DCAM cameras e Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 0 or higher and Internet Explorer 5 0 or higher are recommended to respectively access PDF format documentation and online HexSight Help 2 HexSight Quick Start Guide Device Support Devices The following devices are supported IEEE 1394 Firewire and USB cameras with a DirectShow driver IEEE 1394 Firewire cameras using the DCAM protocol GigE Vision cameras LMI Technologies Gocator sensors HexSight Quick Start Guide Installing HexSight Software HexSight is available on LMI s webs
21. utorial files are located in the Tutorials folder under the HexSight installation folder For example the C tutorial files are located in Tutorial C HookInspection Part6 2 To run the application in the Hook Inspection interface click the Inspect button to launch a first execution Hook Inspection Rotation Translation Y Rectangle Height Hole Otsest Past Width Hook Inspection Tutorial HexSight Quick Start Guide 19 Getting Help Online Help There are four ways to access the HTML Online Help 1 Click on a HexSight control icon either in the Visual Basic toolbox or on one of the forms of the application then press F1 2 Place the cursor of the Visual Basic Editor in the middle of a string that corresponds to a HexSight control type property method or event then press F1 This will work if the icon of the control appears on the toolbox or if the control is referenced 3 From the Process Manager Application Control interface click the Help command button 4 In any property window of a HexSight tool place the cursor on an object and press F1 Technical Support We provide technical support for our customers via our web page as well as by telephone 20 E mail Queries Send your technical questions by e mail directly to our technical support team at supportGhexsight com Your e mail queries will be directed to the appropriately qualified
22. very similar objects Entity An object that is created and used by HexSight Finder tools Basic entities are Points Lines and Arcs These entities can be saved to proprietary file formats and accessed through the Class Library Image A matrix of pixels that represents the 2D appearance of an object An image is a raster bitmap graphic as opposed to a Scene which is a vector description Input Data used by the process algorithm to compute a result which can be an Image a Scene or a set of numeric values Instance A representation or an occurrence For example each occurrence of a specific object is an instance Instantiate To actualize an abstract representation by defining a particular configuration of the process giving it a name and including it in the process list For example if you add a Caliper tool to an application you are instantiating a HexSight HSCaliper process Model A Model is a representation of an object based on the geometry of its contours An object Model is the reference used to identify and locate instances of objects of the same type Model Based Model based refers to positioning a HexSight tool on a model of a given object Each time an instance of this object is found the model based tool is applied on the correct position on the found object Output Data generated by the process algorithm e g an Image a Scene an Entity or a set of numeric values H ight 1 ER ith
23. you that the hardware protection key was not found and that the software will run in the demonstration mode 2 The application then pauses for approximately 10 seconds After this delay the application resumes once you click OK 3 This reminder pop up window will appear again at random intervals during execution simply click OK and continue your evaluation 18 Demo Mode Limitations In the Demo Mode the application development capabilities of the HexSight environment are deactivated e You can load and run the examples that are installed with HexSight e You cannot operate in design mode i e you cannot build an application by selecting and instantiating tools e You cannot save a configuration file You can however open an existing application e Since you cannot run in design mode you cannot fully do the tutorial You can however open the Tutorial files that are installed with HexSight Using the Demo Mode with the Tutorial Even though you cannot use the demo mode to build an application as explained and illustrated through the tutorials you can run any of the applications provided with HexSight either in the Examples or the Tutorial folders To best familiarize yourself with the functionalities of HexSight we recommend that you start out with the tutorial application as follows HexSight Quick Start Guide 1 Open the final application provided for the tutorials The VB NET Visual C and C t
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