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1. 3 0 Getting Started 3 0 GETTING STARTED User s Manual 3 0 Getting Started 3 0 GETTING STARTED 3 1 Camera Setup It is necessary to set up the USB camera for the system at the first time use and these steps can be totally skipped at later use 3 1 1 Camera driver installation When the USB camera is plugged in at the first time use after Vision is installed depending on the computer operation system the computer may ask to install the camera driver either manually or automatically Answer automatic since the camera driver is already pre installed during installation 3 1 2 Camera selection Open iVision select menu Image Capture gt Open capture window to invoke the Media Capture window Then go to menu Devices and select II Camera 02 or another applicable camera Note that the following setup instructions apply to II Camera 02 only and different cameras have different parameter configurations Integrated Camera Y I Camera 02 Microphone 2 High Definition 3 1 3 Image resolution setup On Media Capture window select menu Options gt Video Capture Pin to bring up the camera video format setup Properties dialog and select desired resolution on Video Format under Format tab a Media Capture _ nel a File Devices Capture a Preview MPEG2 Format Dewee Vidas Forest EMETTE OutPut Windows Star tI Cosrdnetes StartT Cosrdinates 77 Video Capture
2. To automatically find grains and calculate their average grain diameter 1 3 2 Camera calibration To calibrate camera either in manual mode or in automatic mode 1 4 Standard Features 1 4 1 Geometric Measurement System provides the tools to draw and measure common geometric shapes such as lines angles 4 point angles for missing or hidden vertexes rectangles circles ellipses and polygons Note that the measurement assumes the system is calibrated 1 4 2 Image Processing System provides a rich set of image processing tools for advanced users The standard tools in the system include adjusting Brightness Contrast Gamma and Histogram Level and the Sharpen Smooth Invert and Convert to Grey functions On grey scale images system provides various advanced tools in filtering and finding edges as well as some standard tools in morphological operations such as Open Close Dilation Erosion Skeletonize and Flood Fill 1 4 3 Document Entry On an image system provides a document editor to enter edit documents with contents either in simple plain text format or in advanced HTML format with objects including tables list and images User s Manual Page 1 2 1 0 General Information 1 4 4 Album Management System allows user manage multiple images in an album which can be saved to and opened from an album file The images can have the standard geometric shapes and the documents as entered by user as described above 1 4 5 Printi
3. Filter Tedd Coordinates Video Capture Pin Endl Cosedinatos User s Manual Page 3 1 3 0 Getting Started 3 1 4 Camera parameter setup On Media Capture window select menu Options gt Video Capture Filter to bring up the camera parameters setup Properties dialog Under tab Plugin click button Plugin select menu Plugin Manager to invoke the Plugin Manager dialog Make sure all the plugin components are checked Plugia Banager Pisa Plugin Manager Auto Function Control Image Convert Plugins Manager HV1351UC1 ea Flease choose plugin in blew Index Bane MO Asto Function Control 1 Image Convert Description wsed in setting wuto function parameter cC Finally go back to Media Capture window and select menu Preview camera video preview should appear on both Media Capture window and iVision main window Select menu Options gt Video Capture Filter to bring up the camera parameter setup Properties dialog again and adjust the A D gt Change Level under Capture tab and the Shutter gt Speed and the Gain gt Gain parameters under Control tab for the best quality image capture Note the Units selection in Shutter speed Exit iVision the above camera settings should be saved and there is no need to do the setup when iVision is opened the next time E Properties Control Capture Plugin Snap Mode Snap Rate jarama Snap Speed Snap Mode Co
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5. ain UI click on the Automatic Measurement tool button E vision will automatically find the contours of the grains The contour of each found grain will be displayed on the image a er 3 Manual correction After a manual correction the analysis results will be updated automatically a Dimension Click to select the object to be corrected Mouse drag move a vertex on the contour to match the contour with the real grain b Delete Click to select the object or CTRL click to select multiple objects to be deleted hit Delete key on the keyboard or click the Remove selected Pantin on the UI c Merge Click and CTRL click to select two grain contours that have touching or close to touching edges under the Manual correction tab click the Merge 2 button then the mouse icon will become cross to let user position the mouse At each end of the touching edge of the two grain contours to be merged click on both sides with total of 4 clicks to define the edge to merge and the two grains contours will be merged d Split Click to select the object under the Manual correction tab click the Split button click on two points outside of the grain to define the splitting line and the grain contour will be split e Add To add a grain contour under the Manual correction tab click the Add button click on the real grain to make a polygon contour note to click on the first point at the end to form a polygon 4 Generate report Click
6. an be checked for printing And all the above elements to be printed have options in printing locations in either top bottom left and right The textbox widths can be limited by their width inputs User s Manual Page 3 9
7. d hit the Delete key To delete a base line or circle and the cross points on it click on the line or circle to select and hit the Delete key Classification Each cross point can be manually classified counted either as 0 5 green 1 red or 1 5 blue to take into account Drag mouse to select the cross point right click to bring out the popup menu to classify Note that in the cases of base lines as required the two cross points at both ends are automatically classified as 0 5 Generate report Click on Generate report tool button to generate a Word document report User s Manual Page 3 7 3 0 Getting Started 3 5 Appendix Using the standard features 3 5 1 Geometric measurement Select any one of the sub menus on the menu GeoMeasure the geometric measurement main interface will appear Draw the standard geometric shapes on the image and their measurement results will be displayed on the data table on the right and on the shapes for some shape types User may edit a shape by click selecting the shape and mouse dragging on one of its control points and the corresponding measurement results will be automatically updated Bongo hoe PRETI mn nun BETT en mn 3 5 2 Image processing Select menu Preprocess and its sub menus to access the image processing tools 3 5 3 Document entry Push on the Add text A tool button or select Add text sub menu under GeoMeasure then click on the image enter text at the small text entry box To ed
8. iVision GR Grain Size Automatic Analysis Software User s MANUAL June 4 2011 USER S MANUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1 0 GENERAL INFORMATION sciiti 1 2 1 1 Software OVERVIEW sacsisecdiscacvodsasusvesseuscuesisncsnssdsnsaveitesesvbseesenustseodenssdensavastebasossebuavensassaestesneuoxe 1 2 1 2 System Requirements AAA senstesenscnesessessessvssesesessesesees 1 2 1 3 Main Fears 1 2 13 1 Gran size analysis alito ass at ati 1 2 1 32 Gamera CADA a rea era 1 2 1 4 Standard FERTILES rana 1 2 1 4 1 Geometric Measurement ie 1 2 1 42 Image Processimg i nali rea e IR i att 1 2 V4 3 Do c me nt Entry iii ai ad ai A aiar 1 2 14 4 Album Management cala eg bul tele rin lesen 1 3 A AA ico 1 3 2 0 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION ii erra iaia 2 2 2 1 Installation OVER no iia 2 2 2 2 Installation Instru tions ana 2 2 3 0 GETTING STARTED aa aa 3 1 3 1 Camera Setups cissiiscssesssstssesssacceotessscsetescedss ssnsseseveseedseddsnacsuvasisasssveasesastonsinedeossesesdassdessuossesebessds 3 1 31 1 Camera driver anstallatoni rana A SR ROL de ani 3 1 3 12 Camera selection uniranno aironi 3 1 3 1 3 Imaseresolutionisetup a inalienabile eee cto apes 3 1 3 1 4 Camera parameter SEP iii A 3 2 3 2 Starting the application nasa rici nern ehe ns nenne een een 3 3 3 2 1 Graphical User Interface GUI setup i 3 3 3 2 2 A nen au Run nos han sense 3 4 3 3 Analysis DY O LOL ESPERO IRR e 3 6 3 31
9. ion simply calculates the linear scale between the pixel distance and the physical distance of two points onimage Place the calibration ruler or grid under the camera start video preview by selecting menu Image Capture gt Preview move the ruler or camera to make sure the lines are approximately aligned in preview and snap an image by selecting menu Image Capture gt Capture Image Select menu Calibration gt Manual calibration hold down the mouse and drag from one line to another line with known and adequate separation distance and then release mouse A dialog will prompt user for the known physical distance between the dragged start and end lines and a name for the calibration After the manual calibration is done system will prompt user whether to load the done calibration or not In any case user can load the named calibration by selecting menu Calibration gt Calibration viewer and load the calibration from there User s Manual Page 3 4 3 0 Getting Started Calibrated Item 4 1280X1024 Do you want to load the calibration o GOIO es mo Muere LO osne amore _ uos Que Current Calbrason Loaded 643X lt 30_ SampleCalibr ation b Automatic calibration Automatic calibration is much more complex in process but more convenient in usage It automatically finds the cross points on the grid image map them to their physically locations and obtain the true 2 D mapping between a physical location a
10. it the text or to enter complex HTML format documents double click on the text to invoke the document editor gt Vision 100 Edit Autoshape Properties Tes some text to Start with User s Manual Page 3 8 3 0 Getting Started To edit the text in HTML format select HTML on Text type To insert table list or image click on the tool buttons at the right bottom The tool buttons to change font text color and text alignment lie at the left bottom 3 5 4 Album management To view the album select menu View gt Image Album To change image display size in album move the splitter Album can be docked in the main window and it can be floated also Double click on the image will copy the image into the album and conversely double click on the image on the album will copy it to the image panel To open save album file go to menu File To reorder the images in album drag an image with its frame and drop it to position To remove an image or images on album click to select and press the Delete key 3 5 5 Printing with magnification Connect to the printer first and select menu File gt Print to bring up the printing dialog Select or enter the desired magnification at the bottom the image print size will change accordingly in preview User may enter text can be in HTML format to include tables lists images etc under user input and the text will be saved for next printing Analysis result tables and statistics summaries c
11. nd its pixel location via interpolation In stead of a calibration ruler a calibration grid is needed to do the automatic calibration First select menu Calibration gt Auto calibration settings to set up the X amp Y line distance unit etc If the lines in image will be darker than the background then Invert Image needs to be checked Snap an image with the grid approximately aligned Select menu Calibration gt Automatic calibration to perform the automatic calibration after which the system will locate and mark most of the cross points of the grid image Grid IntervalX 0 01 Grid IntervalY 0 01 User s Manual Page 3 5 3 0 Getting Started 3 3 Analysis by contours 3 3 1 Settings If the UDuser interface of grain contour analysis is not shown select menu Grain gt Contour to bring it out Under tab Settings set Object pixels threshold which is the minimum number of pixels for an object in the image to be analyzed If it is too small then nuisance little objects will be taken into account otherwise if it too large then the desired objects may be ignored Check or uncheck Count grains at image borders depending on whether or not to count those grains at image borders User may change the contour color under the settings 3 3 2 Automatic analysis 1 Image capture If needed select menu Capture gt Video preview to get preview then select Snap image to get an image from the camera 2 Automatic analysis On the m
12. ng With Magnification System can print the image with user specified magnification if the camera is calibrated User s Manual Page 1 3 2 0 Software Installation 2 0 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION User s Manual Page 1 1 2 0 Software Installation 2 0 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 2 1 Installation Overview iVision software is modular in architecture It consists of the application platform and upon which the application modules The following components are installed in iVision GR 1 Microsoft VC redistributable package since iVision is developed with MSVC 2 iVision software platform 3 Related hardware drivers in the package such as the camera driver 4 iVision application modules such as iVision GR 2 2 Installation Instructions Double click the installer file 1Vision_v1 0 0_WIN32_XP_TZXXXXXX_installer exe to start the installation process and answer Yes at all the prompts in the camera driver installation where TZXXXXXX is the USB license key ID Note to change the drive in installation directory if other than the default D drive Also note that if installation error message II Camera 02 DirectX registration failed shows up in the installation process then it is necessary to manually register the camera DirectX driver after the installation process by running double clicking the reg bat in the iVision installation folder D Intelligent Instruments i Vision_v1 0 0 Drivers I_Camera_02 DirectX User s Manual Page 2 2
13. ntinuatic y robe On Off Trigger Polarity Hi er gt Strobe Polarity High y PackageAdjust AD Change Level anc LEVEL v Black Level Disabled y 255 Control Capture Plugin Shutter JT Auto Shutt Speed Exposurellode r Gain 7 Auto Gain Gain Blanking 255 Black Level Horizon gt LUT a 25 Vertical User s Manual Page 3 2 3 0 Getting Started 3 2 Starting the application 3 2 1 Graphical User Interface GUI setup Layouts Different application module in iVision has its own GUI Select menu Grain gt Contour or Cross analysis to bring out the main interface depending on which method to calculate the average grain size Configurations Many other GUI settings such as menu orders can be configured in the Configuration Settings dialog through menu File gt View Edit configurations Language To choose a different GUI language go to menu Help and select menu Language Choose the new language and the application will exit After restarting the application the new language will take effect User s Manual Page 3 3 3 0 Getting Started 3 2 2 Camera calibration To get quantitative geometric measurement from the camera image it is necessary to calibrate the camera to obtain the conversion from pixel locations to their object physical locations There are two methods to calibrate the camera in iVision a Manual calibration Manual calibrat
14. on Generate report tool button to generate a Word document report User s Manual Page 3 6 3 0 Getting Started 3 4 Analysis by cross points 3 4 1 Settings If the main UI of Cross distance analysis is not shown select menu Grain gt Cross distance to bring it out The parameter Grain edge threshold defines the threshold value in finding the grain edges 3 4 2 Automatic analysis 1 a b c Image capture If needed select menu Capture gt Video preview to get preview then select Snap image to get an image from the camera Automatic analysis On the main UI click on the tool button Add line or Add circle O and draw the base lines and or circles on the image Click on toll button Find cross points O the software will automatically find the cross points on the base lines and circles that cross with the grain edges and calculate the average distance between the cross points and hence the average grain diameter WA e BS e bee lare SDAI Cerro modod PLSI Verl Manual correction Like in the analysis by contours after a manual correction the analysis results will be updated automatically Add To add cross points that are missed out click on Add cross points tool waT the cursor will become a cross to let user position the mouse click on the locations to add the cross points After adding is completed click on the tool button Tio finish Delete To delete a cross point drag mouse to select the point an

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