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1. Adjustments Tab BIRGER Control Adjustments Settings Focus Step Size 100 Focal Distance 33 Om Aperture d 3 5 Aperture f3 5 Focal Length imm 216 Focus Preset Aperture Preset Focus amp Aperture Preset Save Load Save Load Save Load Settings Tab BIRGER Control Adjustments settings Communication setup Grabber Interface Serial COM COM Port COM 1 BIRGER Unit Serial Number 08129 Library Canon EF 232 Library v2ic Lens information Lamm ZG 5mm This page allows changing the focus and the aperture Also the user can save load focus and aperture presets When the zoom changes the aperture and aperture range values are updated Also when the focus changes the focal distance is updated This tab is used to set up the communication with the BIRGER unit If the unit is connected directly to the camera the Grabber Interface should be used For this the serial communication should be already set up in the camera settings If the unit is connected to a COM port then the Serial COM option should be selected lf the module established a successful connection it will display some information about the lens and the BIRGER unit StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 108 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Bitmap Overlay The Bitmap Overlay Module provides the ability to burn a bitmap file bmp into each captur
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3. LTC Time HH MM SS FF The source frames must have been captured with the support of a LTC timing device File Name Padding Useful to browse the image files easily as sorting them alphabetically will show them in capture order Without padding image12 omp would be shown before image2 bmp Simply type the minimum number of digits to include in the file name DNG Bayer Pattern enter the image Bayer pattern to be stored in the image file header DNG Camera Profile enter the camera profile file name if available When no profile is provided default values are used for light settings and an identity matrix correction is applied Use for instance Adobe s DNG Profile Editor http Awww adobe com to create a profile file The default source light settings 21 can be changed by editing the following registry key Key Path HKEY CURRENT USER Software Norpix Key name DefaultDNGSourceLight Key Type DWORD Key Value 21 default Other possible recommended values are 0 Unknown 1 Daylight 2 Fluorescent 3 Tungsten incandescent light 4 Flash 9 Fine weather 10 Cloudy weather StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 98 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com 11 Shade 12 Daylight fluorescent D 5700 7100K 13 Day white fluorescent N 4600 5400K 14 Cool white fluorescent W 3900 4500K 15 White fluorescent WW 3200 3700K 17 Standard light A 18
4. StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 69 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com e Out bound values are ignored Example ndex Blue Green Red Remapping value 0 255 0 O gray level O will be remapping as pure blue 1 10 10 gray level 1 will be remapping as Blue 10 Green 10 Red default 1 200 255 255 255 255 gray levels 200 to 255 are Remapping to pure white 3D Lookup table setup 3D lookup table mode Enable the usage of a 3D LUT for color grading Only 3 party LUT file can be imported 3D ee table File Current Supported file format Flame and lustre 3ld file ColorCorrection cc ColorCorrectionCollection ccc Cinespace file csp Houdini file lut lridas_ Cube fie Cube lridas_itx file itx lridas_look file look Pandora_mga mga ASC CDL adjustment Enable the American Society of Cinematographers Color Decision List ASC CDL basic primary color grading adjustment This can be used to apply basic gain offset and gamma connections Refer to the Remapping via ASC CDL Formula docked dialog section for further instructions Color Matrix correction Color correction Matrix The color filter arrays used on all image sensors do not exactly match the response of the human eye As such a final level of tuning known as color correction or color saturation correction is required The most commonly used form of color correction is a 3 X 4 matrix operation
5. 31 gt Buffers 1 5 Peak Buffer Usage 1 djustment RAM Sequence External Modules Norpix Virtual Grabber Acquisition Speed fps 30 gt Buffers 1 5 Peak Buffer Usage 1 sdjustm RAM Sequence External Modules Camera 4 Ee SE Norpix Virtual Gate Acquisition Speed fps 31 gt puters 1 5 Peak Buffer Usage 1 istment Ss a J WW 640x480 921600 bytes BGR packed image 8 24 bits Multi Workspace Control Ctrl 4 OFF Offset 0 0 Zoom 100 100 Coords 0 0 RGB 85 85 85 ICH Not available in the Single Camera version To control multiple cameras at once a new workspace needs to be created for each one see Using Workspaces Once your grabbers are loaded multiple feed can be displayed simultaneously by using the Multi Display capabilities of StreamPix Multi Display mode can be toggled from a checkbox in the Home tab or with the Ctrl M keyboard shortcut It is possible to see both the Live and the sequence at the same time by right clicking in an area and selecting the required display from the list When using multiple grabbers it is recommended to choose Display workspace name from the list This will show a the current workspace display selected in the workspace tab The commands selected in the ribbons will apply to the currently selected workspace Displays belonging to the currently selected workspace show a small overlay a windows with a checkmark in their display area Note that two areas can
6. Docked dialogs Grabber docked dialog Acquisition Speed fp 37 gt Butters 1 4 Peak Butter Usage 1 Clicking on Info will display information about the size and format of images captured by the grabber When the grabber is Live the acquisition speed in frames per second will be constantly updated Offsets Offset Width Height EE Bza Un Un The ROI allows to define a region of interest for ee eee ee meee ape enn pec all grabbers that support this feature Coordinate _ Broadcast assignment is done by entering the desired offset in X and in Y width and height and clicking on Apply lf broadcast is checked the change will be applied to every other workspace Finally if supported by the grabber an Adjustment button will expand the dialog to show the grabber adjustments Same as Camera gt Live Adjustments Changes to the adjustments can also be broadcasted to other workspaces running another grabber of the same model Sequence docked dialog C tempi CAMi seqg This docked dialog shows information related to H of frames 268 the sequence Click on Show Sequence Limit sequence size to 9 frames 0 no lirit Information to retrieve detailed information Show Sequence Information such as the number of frames in sequence the SE PEE average capture frame rate or image format STOT III VIe MOJE Click on Edit Description to write a short text elhas Event Markers SEET ca message to be s
7. 88 Sequence EE Eege 90 Se CR oot Le E 92 Rue Ra ME 94 EE SE OE eege EE Eege 96 EE 97 Recordind Manager le 100 eine EEN 101 After the Last Commande 101 Srel elaela ct ee E E ene ee en eT 101 Recording Manager Script Inge 103 Non linear Remapping via ASC CDL Formula on cccccccccseecececeeeteeeeeeeteeeteueeseceeseeseeeeeeeegeeneenaes 104 PA E a E E E seated eaauianasseeivurameminenediase ances 105 Loading amp unloading plugin modules EE 105 Free Nodilo ee E E EEEE 106 Ae te EE 107 BIER e EE 108 StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 5 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Be OR Ya I TS AN ected ae endl ernie ainda ance enansiact E levine E 109 Crosshair Module 110 RT a len DEE 112 EXpos re Klient 113 File Automatic Deletion E 114 FOCUS E 115 EU O EE 117 IDT Mx Camera Control Tool 118 law Te GE EE 119 mage Rong PAE 8 2 nn AERE eee nes eee ee A EE eee 120 Woe kee teins a NE E Orra EEN 121 Jee tere eet E A EE A E eee ene ee E eee 122 Je et Et 123 REENEN 124 Live Levels amp Geouencelevels cc cccceccsecceeecececeeeeneeeeeeeceeaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeteeseeteesauseeaeeeeeness 126 Bee 127 Pe eege OPINION EE 128 Matrix WOU ME 129 Kisel BE KEE 130 leiere EE 131 Mikrotron Camera Control Tool 132 ieren Camera CONTO TOO EE 133 Photon Focus Camera Control Tool 134 Point J NN EE 135 FAKE ler EE 139 SEENEN 140 BR uer EK 141 EE Cen e EE 142 GER ivisle li ele E ne nn ee 143
8. Background for the text background color If the text background color is the same as the text color no background color will be used resulting in a transparent background Finally select the Font and Font Size to use to draw the string For best results use fixed width fonts such as Terminal or Courier Broadcast lf Broadcast crosshair s position changes to other workspaces is checked changing the crosshair position in this workspace will also change the crosshair position in every other workspace which also has the crosshair module loaded Checking Broadcast settings changes to the other workspaces will broadcast any changes made to the module settings with the excecption of the crosshair s position to every other workspace which also has the crosshair module loaded StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 111 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Comment overlay Module The Comment Overlay Module allows users to overlay or burn directly to the image data multiple lines of text The module settings are performed via 2 separate tabs described below General Tab This includes general settings for the module Comment Overlay e Overlay text is overlay within the image viewer area aay General Font amp Position BE Burn to Image on Capture text is burned in place of Overlay Burn to Image On Capture image pixels for each image at capture time Burn to Imag
9. H General Bayer Conversion Workspaces ee Bayer Conversion Bayer Pattern BG CH M Algorithm Accurate Bayer Conversion Enable Disable conversion Only useful if displaying a raw Bayer image Bayer Pattern Select the Bayer pattern matching your sensor Algorithm Select the Bayer conversion algorithm Fast or Accurate StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 146 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Color Processing Tab Use the GPU to White Balance or ASC CDL Color Correct Images e White Balance Enable Disable auto General Bayer Conversion Color Processing Workspaces white balance White Balance Algorithm Mean and Standard e Recalculate 3 e Algorithm Select the auto white balance Channel ll Channel _Reset algorithm C c 1 00 Mean Equalization Brightness p SC Gray Word E Gain Standard Deviation E Mean and Standard Deviation Contrast l 0 43 When an algorithm is selected the TVout module will recalculate white balance with the next incoming frame e Recalculate Force the software to recalculate white balance using the next frame e The TVOut module supports ASC CDL grading color correction with revised contrast The Channel pull down m
10. Only fixed width font are available as it keep the text easy to read even when being updated Using a larger font size will make text easier to read at the expense of having a smaller area left to display the image itself StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 72 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com Interface settings streampix Settings Auto Naming AVI Bayer Color DAQ Displayed Data Interface Metadata Playback Playback Rate Setting LI General Sequence Slider Position Show microseconds Show live fps decimals Show time in UTC Format Use flicker free display in LIVE Enable Sate Display mode StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Value No No No No Yes Pre Post Trigger Project Apply Full Screen mode across multiple monitors No Muli Workspaces display switch Zoom Minimum zoom factor 7 Maximum zoom factor 2 Zoom in out steps LJ Chick oom Recording Recording Rate Remote Control Sequence Session Timeshifting Workspaces More Customize Application Menu application menu General Sequence Slider Position Allows to change default placement of the Sequence Slider bar You can place it at the top just below the ribbon bar or at the bottom of the window default Show microseconds Display the timestamp s microseconds in the interface altough it should only be used with a precise hardware time source Default timestamping use the OS time which has a
11. See the following example B 142 32 10 0 00 Bo G 15 140 25 0 00 Go R 14 22 136 0 00 Ro Without correction coefficients are B 100 0 0 0 00 Bo G 0 100 0 0 00 Go StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 70 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com R 0 0 100 0 00 Ro Commonly the sum of coefficients for a channel equals 100 You should refer to the sensor color transfer function to determine to right coefficient to use Miscellaneous LUT Processing Pseudo Color This can be used for remapping monochrome images to pseudo color Currently 2 predefined look up table functions are available Please contact Norpix if you feel more LUT should be added Pseudo color cannot be used with true color RGB or YUV images Available predefined LUT are Rainbow Inverted rainbow Hot Cold Saturated 3 level Saturated 5 level Saturated level LUT are use to help figure out the camera exposure and gain settings Those LUT displays in false color saturated pixels red and under exposed pixels green Saturated 3 level 256 colors Grey level from 0 to 3 are display as green Grey level from 252 to 255 are display as red Saturated 5 level 256 colors Grey level from 0 to 5 are display as green Grey level from 250 to 255 are display as red Monochrome image processing Depending on the need for data integrity one may need to maintain across the 1D LUT proces
12. StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 175 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com NI Pulse Generator NI Pulse Generator Pulse Frequency Hz Start Delay m jo Stop Delay m jo This module can be used to trigger camera connected to a National Instruments Legacy device The module is quite simplistic Enter the desired pulse frequency and use the Turn ON button to toggle the pulse generation on and off You can also specify a Start Delay generator will start X ms after clicking the Turn ON button and a Stop Delay generator will stop X ms after clicking the Turn OFF button StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 176 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com NI DAQmx Pulse Generator Similar to the NI Pulse Generator plugin the NI DAQmx Pulse Generator module is used to program a National Instruments board to generate continuous pulses with a specified frequency The I O board must be compatible with NI DAQmx drivers and support pulse generation Pulse frequency 50 00 Hz Pulse ON lt lt Less Timebase frequency 80 00 MHz Channel Frequency Dev 1 ctr W 50 00 Dev 1ctr1 Al 200 00 Dev 1 freqout F 100 00 Start Delay ms 0 Simply enter the pulse frequency and use the Pulse ON button to toggle the pulse train s on or off If multiple channels are selected the pulse trains will start stop in
13. converters and TTL input devices This kind of data is generally described as one dimension data type 1D in opposition to images that are two dimension data 2D Each 1D data reading is defined as a dataset Each dataset includes one reading from a single or multiple A D converter and or single or multiple digital input 1D dataset are recorded and stored into separate files from the image sequence file with a daq file extension The module supports reading from multiple A D converters and digital inputs at once provided this is from the same adapter A single dataset is performed per received image Only one module can be loaded per workspace Each module requires full and exclusive access to the A D adapter When using multiple cameras if A D reading needs to be separated per camera multiple adapters are required zamera 1 gt Norpix Virtual Grabber FPS 31 Buffers 10 Each dataset can be displayed on the image by ee either overlaying or burning to image n3 0 00366 mm Among the module features we can mention Per workspace implementation one DAQ device per workspace Auto DAQ file naming and generation while recording daq file is created with the same name as the video sequence file Synchronization with start stop recording event Synchronous playback with video Automatic integration with file handling commands File Sequence Close will close both video and daq files File Sequence Open will open
14. precision of 1 millisecond You can select a different time source than the default system clock provided you have a supported device Use Select Time Source from the Workspace tab to select a different time source Show absolute time stamps in UTC format Make the absolute time stamps appear in Greenwich standard No time zone adjustment Apply Full Screen Mode across multiple monitors Do what it says StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 73 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Multi Workspace Display Switch If enabled when all workspaces are selected switching the display to LIVE or playback will be done on every workspaces not just on the current Zoom Minimum zoom factor The minimum zoom factor allowed when zooming out Maximum zoom factor The maximum zoom factor allowed when zooming in Zoom in out steps The zooming steps For example 10 means that each zoom in out action will change the zoom by 10 QuickZoom The QuickZoom allows to quickly browse an image content Two different zoom level can be preset to zoom in or out the image Set the Full View value to the zoom factor at which the whole image is visible in the display area QuickZoom Level 1 Get the zoom factor to a specific value when holding Ctrl while clicking in a display The zoom will be centered on the pixel under the mouse QuickZoom Level 2 Set the zoom factor to a specific val
15. temp sequence seq Will load the specified sequence file in a temporary workspace StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 185 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Network license In order to set up the network license the Sentinel package 7 6 1 or later should be installed on the computer that holds the USB key The Sentinel Protection installer runs under Windows 98 ME NT 2000 XP Server 2003 2008 Vista amp Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit When installing select all features and allow the setup to modify the firewall settings Then to enable the network licensing on the client computer open Streampix go under Help License information and select the Search for network key on IP address option Enter the IP address of the computer on which the USB key is installed the computer should have a fixed IP address Also browse for the authorization codes file npx compatible with the USB key The next time you restart the License information window SyslInfo exe it will search for the key on that specific IP In the available codes list it should say now USB protected Any license is released after 3 minutes if it s not used For example the Pulse Generator license is released 3 minutes after the module is unloaded is released 3 minutes after this feature is disabled All licenses are released 3 minutes after Streampix is closed In the event of a crash the licenses are still releas
16. trigger camera exposure at a specified frequency The cameras have to be configured using their own software to receive the exposure trigger from the frame grabber and not from another external source The module is easy to use Enter the desired pulse frequency and use the Turn ON button to toggle the pulse generator on and off The frequency precision can be set up to 2 decimals You can also specify a Start Delay generator will start X ms after clicking the Turn ON button and a Stop Delay generator will stop X ms after clicking the Turn OFF button Note Please check with Norpix for the up to date list of frame grabbers that support this feature StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 163 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com GPS Positioning This module is useful for displaying data received from NMEA compatible GPS devices The module allows the user to choose which information will be decoded from the NMEA string sent by the GPS device Latitude longitude altitude speed bearing and time can be decoded Depending on the GPS device not all information may be transmitted Check with your GPS provider in case some information cannot be displayed GPS Positioning Main Font amp Position Device Setup Overlay Data Display Mode Latitude N 45 33 18 163 7 DS Overlay Longitude W 73 37 23 665 EEN Altitude mj 64 76 wv Save GPS data to f
17. 136 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Overlay Settings tab This tab controls how the various overlays are drawn Style lets you select between two ways of displaying a measurement line as a Simple line with a T at each end or with Handles T end lines are the default InfoText lets you determine where and how to display the text indicating the length of the measurement line You can position it to any corner of the image and select the font and font size For best results use a fixed width font such as Terminal or Courier Point To Point Caliper Measure Calibrate Overlay Settings Line Colors InfaText Text Background Position Botkom right w Scale 3 Font Terminal wi Position Bottom Jeft H wi Size 10 k In the Colors box click Text to change the color of text overlays default is white on black Click Line to change the color of the measurement line default is pink Under Text Background if you select the same color as that used for text the background will be transparent to the image In the Scale box enter the Length of the scale using the unit of measurement you selected in the Measure tab From the pull down list select the corner of the image in which to position the scale along with its orientation H horizontal V vertical To hide the scale select None Note When working with a line with Handles the line is moved by dragging its handles t
18. Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 130 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com Metadata Spy StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com The Metadata Spy module can be used to setup metadata acquisition in StreamPix a Paused _ Monitor Live metadata Recommended Metadata Size 0 bytes Current Metadata Size 0 bytes L e The first tab Monitor allows to monitor either the metadata of the live feed This tab is useful to set the metadata size when using the constant metadata size mode The largest metadata size seen will be shown as the Recommended Metadata Size Once the largest size is determined you can click on gt to copy this value to the edit box then click on Set new size to write it value to the registry The Current Metadata Size is the maximum amount that can be stored after each image in a sequence file It needs to be large enough to accomodate the largest metadata size that could come with an image If you set the size to 0 the metadata will be stored with a dynamic size However keep in mind that you can t record in a loop when using with dynamic storage pes ee MH Name Boolean Byte Short Unsigned Short Integer Unsigned Integer Double Chinn d Paused Inspect Live metadata Size Inspect Sequence metadata Content false oot 999 999 999 99
19. DAQ device to be used and configure its hardware properties and eventually overwrite the destination folder for the dataset dao file a Gegen eet e Destination File By default the daq file is stored in General Device Analog Digital Font Position the same folder as the video seq file However if Destination File Same as Workspace Folder disk bandwidth is not sufficient to handle it an alternate storage path can be specified Manufacture MCC i i facture mee o e Manufacture Select a device provider which is Device usB 1408F5s OOOO o 1408F5 supported by StreamPix Analog Range um e e Device Select what device will be used e Analog Range select what analog range will be used It s only available for analog line this is hardware dependent and may not exist for all supported modules Analog Tab This tab allows you to configure each A D reading and conversion Only first degree linear conversion is possible Y AX B where Y printout value A conversion slope StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 157 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com X A D reading B possible offset analog Line Name Param ParamB Unit 7 ee Ee 20 Joo Jom Fi 0 0 v ant 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Unit Unit name to be printed Font amp Position Tab StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Line Analog line name from device rea
20. EE 48 LOGE le E 48 SO Fe CE Ae VION E 48 TOGA DME tee PIaAyDaACK EE 49 SNOW SEQUENCE Information 49 EE de WEE 50 Recordin SECDEYE ER 50 LOG SVE CONTOU O E 52 Reload Saved SCHIE eae en ee in An eee EEEE Ea EE 52 EE EE ege 52 Performance en ee nev Pn re re eee eee eee 52 NS te se ANG E 52 StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 4 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Mielec te Stare La E 52 Windows Task ET 2 EE 52 DI el ai Reie 52 E e le E 54 TAE e EE 5 StreamPix 5 User Manual 57 Camera Installation Manual 0 ce cece cece ccecececeecececeeeececeeecececaeaeceeueaeaecesaeaeseseeeaeaeaeaeaenenseneneas 5 Sequence File Format Manual cc cccceccceccseeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeeeseceetgeeegeseeeteesegeeegeeeeeeeegeeees 5 License eile ggasi el eee eee eee ee eer enn eee ee ee ne eee 57 About ll LN 57 aisle io Mele bs cls ebe 57 Send Feedback to A 0 dl md EE 57 Blas lt ekol ee E 59 SRL E OCR A a EE 59 SEOUEMNCE peter Ba e ME 59 I O Manager docked Me e DEE 60 Pio PO Beete ave eieiei Eelere DEE 61 SE Nl gdh eS E 62 AM Be Elie ai EE 62 AE le cc ence ete pvp eaters E PE pcs xc cits csc arene ate E ani E beans cnn aamotoaant 66 Bayer and Color Se MNS ee ee ee ree 67 BIS e K E E E E E A RA 12 NEE SS EE 13 MGC Wr CES Us te hi ee Tf REENEN 78 HEELERS EA E 19 Fe re eh Ml I E 81 Bit ge Oc 6 6 2 EE 83 Eeselen EEN 85 ROCONMNO RAG PENI EE 87 Remote Control
21. Evert to wiewrE dit Event Description may include additionnal modules if any plugin This event is called when a frame is A fg A CEET SE has been loaded in it On Export Image On Show Image Local Parameters C varlmage image The captured image Once a workspace and sub module is selected the list box in the middle of the dialog will show all events for the module Clicking on an event displays detailed information in the Event Description box and also lists all parameters available to the sub module When this event occurs Do Bayer conversion of image IF lsRecording Save image in Curent sequence You can save your current scripts with Tools Insert New Command Move lp Indent Command A Save Current Scripts Next time you gt Remove Command Move Down Unindent Command launch StreamPix reload them USING Help Reload Saved Scripts Reset to Meraut When an event is selected the bottom box shows what actions are taken when it is called each line of a script calling a specific command Using the buttons allow to customize the script for an event Insert New Command Will make the Select a command dialog pop up The selected command is automaticaly appended at the end of the script Remove Command This will remove the currently selected command Reset to Default Should an event differ from its original behavior clicking on this button will reset it to default script Move Up Move Down Use this t
22. PR OR EE 145 Premium MOdules 0 0 ccc cccccccececcececececeeeeeeeececececececeeaeaeaececececeeueneaeaeaeaesesececeeneaeaeaesesesesusereeavavaeaeaeaneneas 149 Ciel re He Let 150 PARA TA Se e EE 151 Rebeet e EI EE 156 Distance Measuring Instrument Module DMI 0 0 ec ee eee eceeeeeeeececececeeeeeaeeeneeaeeeeeeaeeeesnneaes 159 Frame Grabber Pulse Generator 163 ENEE eee ee ee E EEE 164 GPS Time LC E 166 gt Ee e e EE 167 LING SCAN Viewer 169 MCC e EE 172 Moon Deiechon 173 NI Pulse Generator 176 NI DAQmx Pulse E e EE 177 NI SEI RE 178 SALAD EE 179 S e ES ale E 183 StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 6 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Sela ele Bet eeler ee er eee cr rer nen cnn enn ee ee ee eee 185 Network Wcense cece eccccececececeeeeeenececececeeeeeaeaeaecececececneeaeaeaesecesecueneneaeaeaeseaeauaeaeaeuseatannetaeaeneesnaeaes 186 SES Eege EE 187 EE EE ee 187 StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 7 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com About StreamPix 5 StreamPix is a specialized application designed to provide real time digital video recording to PC memory or hard disk Providing the hardware is adequate video may be streamed from a camera at full frame rate without dropping any frames StreamPix is designed to be as easy to use as possible Although StreamPix is a sophisticated program designed for high speed im
23. This status bar displays all relevant information about the image currently shown displayed in the SSES area The parameters are in order Resolution in pixels shown as Width x Height Image size in bytes Image format mono color bayer etc Bitdepth per channel Total bitdepth Multi Workspace control ON if multiple Workspaces are controlled at the same time Image offset in the display area not the same as the offset on the camera CCD Image zoom in X and Y Used to zoom the image in and out Pixel coordinates of the mouse cursor on the image RGB color value of the pixel at mouse cursor position StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 18 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Using workspaces Workspaces allow to load multiple cameras and sequences in a single instance of StreamPix For example two workspaces could be created named Workspace A and Workspace B each workspace having its own tab Workspace A would control camera A and the resulting sequence file A while Workspace B would control camera B and sequence file B Changing active workspace would the be done by simply clicking on the appropriate tab To access Workspace management click on the Workspace Manager button in the Workspace tab Workspace Manager me ES m Having multiple workspace configuration can be useful even when running a single camera Workspaces For instance If a camera is used to grab TEA N
24. XML format Click on Reset to clear the current recording script Load from file allows you to reload script from a previsouly saved script file Each recording script is made of one or more steps Each step can be made of any number of commands and or substeps The script is always ran sequentially starting when a recording begins Understanding how to make a complex script is steep learning curve but once you grasp the mechanisms the flexibility of the Recording Manager engine can cover most recording needs Click on a step in the tree on the left hand side to show edit this step To delete a sub step delete the associated Call Sub Step command in its parent step Don t forget that you can always ask Support norpix com if you ever need help building a script StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 100 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Commands Commands are instructions given to StreamPix Whenever StreamPix acquires a new frame a query will be made to the recording manager to know what is to be done with it Grab Frame This command instructs StreamPix to save the frame to the current target file sequence etc When encountering this command the script execution will stop until a query is made by StreamPix Skip Frame This command instructs StreamPix to discard the frame It will not be saved When encountering this command the script execution will stop until a query is
25. a sequence file to process in a third party application such as Matcad License Information Display all the authorization codes that are registered on the system for the current user About StreamPix Accesses the Technical Support s contact information and shows the credits for StreamPix The Enable DLL Registration button sets the file association for DLL files to regsvr32 exe as the default application used to open them It is sometimes used in tech support procedures but should not be needed otherwise Check for Updates This will connect to the Norpix FTP and download a small version file from it The newest available version number will be compared to the version number of the installed software calling a prompt indicating if a new version of StreamPix is available for download Send Feedback to NorPix As StreamPix is a complex application and new features are constantly added to it bugs sometimes StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 57 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com manage to affect the software If you happen to find one please notify us so we can squash it in time for the next release Also please use this feature to tell us about any suggestions or specific features that you would like to see implemented in a future version of StreamPix StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 58 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com
26. all workspaces are selected the change is applied to every workspace Edit Default Token Edit the default Ccustomtoken Every workspace that doesn t use a custom token will use this value StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 36 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Master Workspace Not available in the Single Camera version Click on this to set the active workspace as the master When all workspaces are selected Ctrl A and a playback is started every workspace will synchronize their playback with the master workspace Synchronisation cab be done either on frame index or on time stamp see StreamPix Settings gt Playback If no master is defined playback is done independently in every workspace You can also double click on a workspace s tab to quickly set unset the master status StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 37 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Customize Workspace Control Advanced Settings for Multi workepace Control Not available in the Single Camera version This is specific to the Select All Workspaces mode and is used to control multiple workspaces at the same time Commands like Mult orkspace Control is used to control multiple workspaces at the same time The check bores belows allow pou to esclude workspaces from the mult contral WORKSPACES IGNORE MULTI CONTROL those associated to playback and
27. blending e Image division any source can be divided by the other source The module provides registration functionalities the 2 images can be horizontally and vertically offset or rotated In alpha bending mode each source image can be display with separate color The module perform the calculation in real time less than 10 ms with an Intel Core 2 duo processor T7200 hence providing a real time visual feedback in single or multiple display mode The SimulPix module can work with cameras that acquire synchronously or not SimulPix will wait until it receive an image from each camera before performing the rendering If the 2 cameras are not capturing at the same time synchronized or Genlock this may result in short delay SimulPix Each camera can have different image size Framerate U 00fps and ROI but must have the same bit depth Mode Metge Image Capture From Camera Image format should be monochrome 8 10 Color Mode Primary Color ll OO 100 vi or 12 bit Cameras Color cle ES Bue gt r All parameters except source cameras can 3 be changed during runtime and are saved No 2 cama creer i automatically If you want to change the Ge source cameras you should stop the merging process Live Off Ji ee cl E Settings e The SimuPix Module can operate either on a live feed from 2 cameras or it can also operate on a set of pre recorded sequence file Use the Capture From parameter to to select the ope
28. button ROI Define Offset X Offset Width 0 0 0 StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 116 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Histogram This module compute the image histogram in real time It supports monochrome raw Bayer and color image format For monochrome and raw Bayer images only the red channel is relevant For color images the red green and blue channels are calculated The X axis represents the intensity of each channel while the Y axis shows the percentage of pixels in the image that have this intensity The module can capture images and operate on the camera live stream or eventually from a pre recorded sequence file during playback The Settings menu allows users to Histogram e Display only specific channels ex only E green Capture From Camera wll lt lt Settings Show the histogram as a series of lines or bar graph Ignore extreme intensities Plot the histogram using a logarithmic vertical scale 25 51 76 102128153179 204 230 256 e Plot only within a specific intensity range for better rendering D v Red Line Histogram Green J Blue Logarithmic Scale Ingore Extremis i Tae 0 001 Intensity Range E Min Iw 255 er 1000000 The histogram is a powerful tool to adjust the brightness contrast offset gain or exposure of the image to help obtain the best image quality for post processing To sa
29. device format NMEA or GARMIN StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 164 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com GPS Positioning Man Font amp Position Device Setup Device Type COM settings USE COM Port COM 1 COM Baud Rate 9600 ZE GPS Format M MEA The GPS information can also be added in the auto naming scheme using the GPSData token For example when a new sequence is created using the auto naming scheme the token will be replaced by the GPS data the same information that is overlaid or burnt into images Note The GPS positioning module requires a separate license code StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 165 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com GPS Time Card This module is useful for displaying GPS data received from certain time source boards that have also GPS capabilities The module allows the user to choose which information will be decoded latitude longitude altitude Depending on the board not all information may be transmitted GPS Time Card Latitude Unknown Longitude Unknown Altitude mi Unknown S ZE gt 10 MM Overlay Position Mode No Overla e Change Font Color Change Background Color Format Lat Long e ddd mm ss sss ddd mm mmm Save GPS data to file Since GPS boards usually deliver a new message every second this informa
30. down lists allow to acces the global variables of any loaded workspace lsBayerDisplay lB ayerlapture lB auer sport cancel ze _ Select The sleep duration in milliseconds Local Variables Global ariables User created Variables This dialog is similar to the last two You can Variables Variable Description select an existing variable or create a new one See C alUINT the sleep duration edit its value or delete it Not all types of variable Value 1000 can be user created For example the Varlmage can t be user created However VarBool and VarUINT can If the buttons are disabled then the requested type can t be created New Edit Delete StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 56 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com The Help tab GG EEN itl zg Home Workspace Camera Display Bayer Colors Markers Sequence Tools Help OROM o AU ME StreamPix Camera Sequence License About Check for Send Feedback 5 Installation File Format Information StreamPix Updates to NorPix Manuals Help StreamPix 5 User Manual To easily access this exquisite manual Camera Installation Manual This manual hold detailed instruction on how to setup every camera supported by StreamPix Sequence File Format Manual This manual provide information on the NorPix Sequence File format This is can be useful if you want to extract image data from
31. downloads en default aspx TVOut module refresh time value is set by Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Norpix Streampix5 Setups Workspace TVOut RefeshDuration Time default value 25ms StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 145 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com The TVOut module includes several configuration tabs General Tab Basic Settings Display Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 9800 GTX 1 Image Source Camera Live M Stretch Full Window Center Display Multiple Workspaces Display StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Display Adapter Select which TVOut monitor to drive The monitor number corresponds to the identified display detected by the graphic adapter driver Image Source Select which video source to display which can be either a live camera or a video sequence Stretch Full Window Stretch the displayed image so that it fits the entire TVOut monitor area e Center Display Center the displayed image on the monitor image is displayed in the top left corner when left unchecked e Multiple Workspaces Enable Disable Multiple Workspaces mode If Multiple Workspaces mode is enabled a Workspace tab is added Enabling Multiple Workspace allows for the display of more than one workspace s content on the secondary monitor e Display Check this option to activate the secondary display Bayer Conversion Tab Use GPU to Compute the Bayer Rendering
32. launch the disk benchmarking utility bundled with StreamPix This tool is used to evaluate the system capacity for streaming frames to the sequence file format Metadata Manager Use this to launch NorPix Metadata Manager utility bundled with StreamPix This tool is used to configure the metadata allocation in sequence files You will need to restart StreamPix for the new settings to be applied Windows Task Manager This will simply launch the standard Windows Task Manager The Performance tab can be used to monitor CPU usage in order to analyze any frame drop that might occur Debug Log The Debug Log allows the user to see the internal status messages This can be useful for solving various types of crashes For instance if StreamPix is unable to load the desired grabber reviewing StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 52 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com the log as StreamPix attempts to load the grabber might give an indication about the cause of the problem StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 53 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Edit StreamPix Scripts FOR EXPERIENCED USERS ONLY This is the main dialog used for SE customization allowing to browse events by NG M workspace using the Workspace drop down i list Each workspace has at least one Module StreampisCore bi module the StreamPixCore module and Select an
33. license can be from a computer to another In order for StreamPix to read the license on the USB Key a third party software driver must be installed on the computer It is also possible to setup a server which will manage authorizations for multiple client computers on an internal network This software is included on the StreamPix installation CD and may be downloaded from NorPix MAC address The authorization code for a MAC address protection will allow the system with a matching MAC address to run the specified drivers As the MAC address is an unique identifier specific to each ethernet network card HDD serial number The last possible protection method uses the serial number of the system primary hard disk drive the drive where Windows is installed However should a primary hard disk failure reformat or replacement occur a new authorization code will be required StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 11 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com StreamPix 5 Basics Ribbon Interface overview Application Button Quick access toolbar Styles le vs StreamPix 5 See Home Workspaces Camera Display Bayer Colors Sequence Tools Help Style V LIVE od Ki K 4 ae E Ke gp Show Docking Panel Define ROI a me Goto First M workspaces P Bayer amp Color A Hardware Properties WS Multi Display Mode Scroll image a Goto End S Camera v Sequen
34. located at the end of the sequence unless modified with the Set Recording Position command Snap Same as Record except that the recording will automatically stop after 1 frame has been captured First Frame Moves to the first frame of the sequence Step Back Moves to the frame immediately before the current frame Play Pause Starts stops the playback of the sequence following the time stamp of every image For instance if there is a 5 second interval between two frames time stamps the playback mechanism will actually wait 5 seconds before showing the next frame This can be inconvenient for triggered captures or StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 32 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com appended sequences as two consecutive frames may be separated by a long time interval In such a case use the Sfep One Frame Forward to bypass the time step or use the manual playback controls to playback at a fixed speed regardless of time stamps Reading frames from the sequence file consumes as much bandwidth as recording them As such avoiding doing playback while recording is strongly advised if there are any doubts about the system s performance Step Forward Moves to the frame immediately following the current frame Last Frame Moves to the last frame of the sequence Show Docking Panel Show or hide the docking panel in which the docked dialogs appear Multi Displ
35. on a frame delay When the timeshift is enabled StreamPix will slowly load the memory with information about each frame captured Then you can use Toggle Timeshifted Playback from the Sequence tab to start stop the playback Every time a frame is captured the sequence display will be updated with the frame that was captured X time or X frames before it It is also possible to use timeshifting on a looped recording see the Recording settings Warning using Timeshifted playback require twice as much bandwidth as needed for a standard recording because StreamPix has to fetch the old frames from the sequence file If StreamPix drops frames the computer might not have sufficient bandwidth to perform the simultaneous read write operations One way to reduce bandwidth usage is to do a loop recording in a RAM StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 94 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com sequence Finally don t use the regular playback actions while a timeshifted playback is in progress they won t work StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 95 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Workspaces settings Streampix Settings AVI Bayer Color Default Working Folder Displayed Data C temp Interface Playback Append the workspace s name to the default working folder path Playback Rate W Save File dialogs use the working folde
36. on a tab will show it s commands Furthermore the ribbon bar can be minimized to save some space To dock the ribbon bar double click on any one tab While in this mode clicking on a tab will show the available commands but as soon as the user click on one of the command the ribbon bar will immediatly reminimize Double clicking on a tab again will restore the ribbon bar to its always show state The ribbon interface also has a round button in the upper left corner of the window called the application menu button Clicking on it will display a standard menu All commands related to file management are located in there In the case of StreamPix it means that every command related to the sequence files are here creation opening saving closing and exporting The menu content will show different commands if multiple workspace are selected The content of the ribbon bar and the application menu can be fully customized from StreamPix Settings gt Interface Current workspace Camera 1 d New Sequence on Disk New Sequence in RAM G New AVI Select All Workspaces CH New Quicktime movie oo New Image Sequence i de Open b C Export Current Image to H Export Selection to C Export Full Sequence ta p Em Settings d Exit KE The ribbon interface also provide enhanced tooltips al Current workspace Camera 1 E In All Workspaces New Sequence on Disk g In All Workspaces N
37. requiring buffer reallocation and other profound changes in StreamPix For instance modifying the ROI region of interest and capture bit depth 8 bits 16 bits hardware settings will change the image format As such accessing Hardware Properties while the grabber is in Live mode will automatically suspend Live to enable setting modifications Live Adjustments Live Adjustments are grabber settings that can be changed while the camera is streaming as they will not affect image format For instance exposure gain and brightness are adjustable in Live mode on most cameras Accessing Live Adjustments while the grabber is not Live will automatically start the Live process On most grabbers every setting in Live adjustment will be also available in Hardware StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 39 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Properties although the opposite is not always true Advanced Settings Advanced settings are available on some models of GigE cameras Export Settings Export the current camera settings to an xml file Buffer count Changes the number of buffers allocated by the grabbers in this workspace If 0 is used the grabber will use the default value set in Streampix Settings gt Workspace s Show Image Information This will show complete information on the format of the frames received from the grabber Select Time Source StreamPix image time stampin
38. same time as in hardware triggered recording For instance moving one sequence to frame 45 will bring every other sequence to frame 45 Synchronize on master frame timestamp The linked sequences will show the frames that were captured at the same time as the current frame If a frame with the exact same time stamp can not be found the sequence will show the frame captured before the requested time You can also allow StreamPix to automatically choose a workspace to be the master when all workspaces are selected The master can always be changed manually by double clicking on the desired workspace tab StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 80 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Playback Rate settings streampix Settings Auto Naming Playback Rate AVI Bayer Color Show the Manual Playback Slider used to control the playback rate Displayed Data Interface Playback Playback Rate Pre Post Trigger Sequence playback rates AVI playback rates Recording Remote Contral Sequence 800 00 Session E Timeshifting Workspace s Reset default values Note Negative values are backward speeds The Manual Playback Slider allows the user playback sequences and AVI files at variable speeds slower amp faster forward amp backward Sequence playback rates Pressing Add allows to add a new fps value to the list Remove selected erases the
39. specifying the the target format Use this table to find the desired format ID Format ID for StreamPIix 32 bit ID for StreamPix 64 bit 0 Sequence on disk Sequence in RAM AVI MOV BMP JPG TIFF PNG FITS JPEG 2K DPX Nle Not available O ON OO Om BB Ww O WAIN OT BP WIN gt O For example here is the command used to change the file target to AVI SendRM exe StreamPix 5 STREAMPIX_MESSAGE_ TARGET FORMAT 3 Sending this command directly from your code is similar to the way shown in the previous page except that you use the ID as the wParam Like this SendMessage targetWindow registeredMessage 3 NULL StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 184 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Command Line Arguments StreamPix support a few command line arguments StreamPix5 exe r Start a recording as soon as StreamPix finishes launching If all workspaces were selected last time StreamPix was closed every workspace will start recording Configure que Auto Created file type settings and autonaming schemes to setup the destination files StreamPix5 exe config C Users User Documents StreamPix5 Configurations config reg Will overwrite the current configuration with the configuration in the specified file You can save your current configuration from Tools gt Save Configuration StreamPix5 exe C
40. the destination file with the Application Button gt Save amp Close command when is no longer needed A previously captured sequence can be re opened trough the Application Button gt Open Sequence menu You can also open a sequence by dragging a sequence file in the display area of the currently selected workspace Another option is to drop the file on one of the workspaces tab to open the sequence file in the corresponding display Finally you can drop the sequence file in an empty space in the workspace bar to open the sequence in a temporary workspace TO Open one or more sequence files in temporary workspaces use the Application Button gt Open Sequence s in temporary workspaces StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 21 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com Supported formats StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Image Format Advantages Disadvantages Norpix Sequence File seq The best format to stream to disk without losing any frames at high frame rates Uncompressed so no image quality loss This format can only be read in StreamPix NorPix Sequence File images can be exported to any supported format The seg image format is not supported by anything but StreamPix Windows Bitmap omp Uncompressed so no image quality loss Format is supported by a vast majority of image processing applications Raw images result in large file sizes Supports 8 bit mono and 24 bit
41. the sequence file and the corresponding daq file if it exists provided the module is loaded into the workspace StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 156 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com General Tab This includes general settings for the module DAQ Capture Capture Enables dataset capture By default Gear i analog Digital Font Position when loaded the module does not perform capture EE ees until fully configured During capture the Capture adatasetevery 1 nes configuration cannot be changed Maximum capture Overlay rate is one dataset per image Eventually you can Burn to Image On Capture reduce the capture rate Analog precision m 4 e Overlay Enables overlay of the DAQ dataset on the a screen Burn to Image on Capture DAQ dataset is burned in place of image pixels for each image Useful when exporting images to other file formats where the daq file cannot be reloaded for simultaneous playback Analog DAQ data are printed as decimal numbers Click the precision dialog to specify the number of digits to be printed Export Data to CSV File The daq file contains binary information Using that control you can export current dag files to an Excel compatible comma separated text file CSV file Device Tab The device tab allows you to select a
42. to StreamPix Remote follow the procedure below 1 From the StreamPix Settings window select the Remote Control page 2 Check the Enable remote control check box to enable network communication 3 Optionally allow StreamPix Remote to discover StreamPix 5 computers on the network and workspace s to automatically connect to StreamPix Remote when loaded 4 Enable image compression and set the compression quality When the network bandwidth usage is high this option can reduce the network traffic considerably 5 To get connected select a local IP address and supply the same IP address and port number you specified when you configured StreamPix Remote to accept new connections The connection will be possible only if both IP addresses are reachable StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 88 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com 6 In case more control over a remote computer is needed you must enable StreamPix Agent This tool will allow StreamPix Remote to Shutdown or restart computer Log off user Launch StreamPix 5 Forcibly quit StreamPix 5 in case of crash or frozen GUI 7 Click OK to save the changes and close the StreamPix Settings dialog When remote control is enabled a new dialog will show up on the StreamPix 5 docking panel interface for each workspace Remote Control Connected to 1927 168 1 6 5 64 Connect Broadcast You can click on the Connect or Disconnect
43. used Clicking on one of the Codec Settings will show the coedc s configurable settings if it has any The force frame rate option allows you to override the frame rate of the capture This means that the AVI can be made to play slower or faster that the actual capture rate The playback output format can be converted from Native to BGR if needed Some external modules require the BGR format StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 66 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Bayer and Color Settings z Streampix Settings Auto Naming Color Processing AVI Bayer Color E Use individual settings for each workspaces Displayed Data Setting Yke Interface El Bit Depth Management a Metadata Image bit depth while exporting Maintain image bit depth MOV El Color Processing Playback Look up table type 1D Playback Rate Look up table calculation Recalculate when Stream Pre Post Trigger El Color Balance s Recording White Balance Automatic Recording Rate Automatic Algorithm Mean A Standard dev Remote Control 2 Manual 40 0 0 Sequence ec EEN Seccion 1D Look up table setup a 1D Look up table mode Disabled 1D Look up table File Neng ag E 3D Look up table setup Bes 3D Look up table mode Disabled 3D Look up table File ASC COL adjustment Disabled K o Cancel For general information about Bayer rendering please refer to Bayer and Color grading section 26 Ba
44. 10 16 2006 S Trim Sequence This will trim the active sequence keeping only the current selection This operation can take a long time for big Sequences as StreamPix will export the selection to a new sequence file delete the original sequence and finally rename and reopen the new sequence file Append a Sequence A file open dialog will allow to select a sequence of frames to append at the end of the current sequence Both sequences must share the same image format resolution bitdepth etc StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 47 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Sort Images in Chronological Order When StreamPix is recording in a loop the resulting sequence s frame order might not be properly arranged For instance the oldest frame might not be at position 1 in the sequence The sort action will fix that by creating a new sequence file in which the frames are sorted according to their respective time stamps Please note that this can be a lenghty operation on large sequence files Take Reference Time Read the current system time and set this time as the reference time of the current sequence The relative time of each image of the sequence will be computed using this time instead This can be useful to set a reference time occuring before a recording starts Using a reference time override the current reference frame if any It is also possible to do this automatically See S
45. 2 bade Hoil hlo Fenn From Camera different pseudo coloring LUT rainbow or invert SE Made eee EE rainbow and two scaling scheme can be applied Cameras Background No Apply Capture amp Save Image No 2 Apply Capture amp Save Image Gamma 1 0 Live Off J nd d Settings Registration Registration Division settings Scaling Slope 7 0 05 Scaling Offset E 0 Frame dropping issues By default the SimulPix module is assuming both cameras deliver images at a constant rate and identical frame rate It will monitor incoming image rate to make sure none of the cameras are dropping frames Frame dropping from one camera would result in miss synchronization of the 2 captured series of images and incorrect image superimposed When an expected incoming frame timed out the module will suspect a dropped frame and will make its best to drop an equivalent frame from the other camera Monitoring is performed based on the time stamp given to each incoming frame at the image capture level When dropped frames are detected SimulPix will log a message in the general log dialog Dropped frame imply the removing of a corresponding frame from the other camera on the SimulPix stream sequence file The 2 sequence files from both cameras are unchanged Hence the number of images in each sequence may not be identical Example Recording of a 100 frames sequence Camera 1 dropped frame 25 and 76 StreamPix5 Copyrigh
46. 9 999 000000 Tact The second tab Inspect displays the metadata information for the currently show image either from the live or from the current Sequence In both tabs the lists display the metadata name the space in bytes required to store it and its content if formattable to a string Each metadata value regardless of its length comes with a 8 bytes header this is why storing a single byte of metadata takes 9 bytes StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 131 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Mikrotron Camera Control Tool This module allows to control and adjust some of the most important Mikrotron camera features by sending specific commands to the camera via serial communication Therefore the frame grabber that connects to the Mikrotron camera must be loaded and the serial communication must be enabled before loading the module into the current workspace Mikrotron Control Tool Image Settings ROI Digital Gain The Image page of the interface lets you adjust Sizex 1280 Y 1024 the ROI Digital Gain Black Level Shutter GH F ix ix wx 4 amp Time Frame Rate Setting the ROI defines a a flack bevel new range for available frame rates Changing prer g en the Frame Rate sets a new range for available ee an a shutter times Shutter time 15 e 4994 2 33327 Frame Rate p 30 1 506 Image s
47. Driver Type ASIG File Type Single D i ave File Ke Sta Single BWave File See Multiple BWave File applications However it includes no synchronization meta StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Level control sliders Level adjustment for both input and ouput channels MME Direct only See below for ASIO Asio Hardware Settings Popup device specific ASIO hardware settings dialog Only when using ASIO driver Destination File By default the wav file is stored in the same folder as the video seq file However if disk bandwidth is not sufficient to handle it an alternate storage path can be specified Driver Type Select what driver will be used to control the audio device MME DirectX or ASIO File Type The module can store the audio data to 3 possible audio formats These formats are described below with their respective advantages and drawbacks All files are saved under the same wav file extension Standard Wave le e Standard wave format The file includes only PCM encoded audio It can be loaded and read by all media audio player data During playback the audio track will be started at the same time as with the video Then no further synchronization is provided Single bwave format The whole audio stream is recorded into a single continuous bwav compatible file format default Bwav format includes the same data as a regular wav file with the addition of synchronization meta data
48. Frame Skip Frame After the Last Command Loop Immediately Stop Conditions None Capture one minute every hour Complexity medium Main Step Commands Call SubStep GrabFor1Min After the Last Command Loop Every 1 00 00 1 hour Stop Conditions None GrabFor1Min Step Commands Grab Frame After the Last Command Loop Immediately Stop Conditions For Time X 1 00 1 minute Pre Post recording Create a new sequence capture in a 1 minute loop until Rising Edge then capture for 10 seconds then start anew Stop after 10 sequences have been captured this way Complexity High Main Step Commands New Sequence Call SubStep Pre Call SubStep Post After the Last Command Loop immediately Stop Conditions Do 10 Times Pre Step Commands Call SubStep GrabFor1MinLoop Loop After the Last Command Loop immediately Stop Conditions Until Rising Edge on IO device can interrupt GrabFor1MinLoop Step Commands Grab Frame After the Last Command Loop immediately Stop Conditions Do For 1 minute Post Step Commands Grab Frame After the Last Command Loop immediately Stop Conditions Do For 10 seconds StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 103 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Non linear Remapping via ASC CDL Formula The American Society of Cinematographers Color Decision List ASC CDL has defined a
49. How to configure the output files formats For sequence files the compression settings and more can be configured from StreamPix Settings gt Sequence The AVI file settings codec audio etc are accessible from StreamPix Settings gt AVI Quicktime files are configurable from StreamPix Settings gt MOV Finally image files bmp jpg tif etc have a few settings that can be found in StreamPix Settings gt More gt Images How to simplify the precedure to start a recording First you can enable the autonaming scheme for new files from StreamPix Settings gt Auto Naming When enabled StreamPix won t show a prompt to chose a name for the destination file when doing a New Sequence On Disk New AVI On Disk etc The naming scheme is fully configurable Next you could go in StreamPix Settings gt Recording select an auto created file such as a Sequence file on disk and enable the auto creation of the file when the record button is pressed With all the previous options enable you only have to do a single click on the record button to automatically create the file and start recording How to record in a loop Recording in a loop is possible only if the destination is an uncompressed sequence file To record in a loop go In StreamPix Settings gt Recording gt Limits and set the sequence limit to the number of frames to be captured in each loop Then enable the option to loop when the limit is reached else the recording wil
50. Naming Scheme Cwyorkingrolder titime Sample output workspace Workspace name prompt Prompt userdefined User Defined Token time Current System Time in HH MM 55 MMM date Current System Date in MM DD 4 Format Year From the frame s time stamp Month From the Frame Dme stamp Day From the frame s time stamp Hour from the Frame e time stamp Minutes From the Frame e time stamp Seconds From the frame s time stamp The dialog allows to create a naming scheme and show a typical output Once you have created the scheme click on OK to accept the changes and close the dialog Double clicking on a token will append it to the current naming scheme Each token get replaced by an actual value at the time a file is created Here is a description of all available tokens Some are not available in every scheme e workingfolder This token will be replaced by the working folder of each workspace workspace This token will be replaced by name of the workspace prompt This will prompt for a specific string to use for each file created This string will then replace the prompt token customtoken This token will be replaced by a string value defined by the user increment This token will be replaced by an incremental numerical value date This token will be replaced by the current system date time This token will be replaced by the current system time YYYY MM DD HH MIN SEC MSEC Those token w
51. Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com STREAMPIx 5 Scream Pix 3 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2009 2013 NorPix StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 1 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Table of Contents leie 1k 121 al bo EE 8 Minimum system PS CISTI FINS ec arcaranacanstennxuesdwoleadoandslonawyrndeananaanmncediactatentaanseatmaaesientxeeidmanieavarhicanasenntaains 9 UU AN PN VY sre eect EE 10 ANON UON CO E 11 StreamPix Ee 12 Ribbon Interface Oovetvleuw rarna rnrn rrara rnanan A rna Annaan nn annann nennen 12 SL 14 Default list of Keyboard Rue e EE 15 Te Le Le 16 LE EIER 16 Beg EE 16 Reie ere 16 Riet he ne ee eT 16 Ria 2 ERR tee E ee ee eee ere 17 EE WO E 17 Biele 4 816 bart 18 EE ee 18 Blue ett 19 Msrfelintemelatetels imide late a ec 612 BE 20 Selecting destination TEE 21 a LEE 22 Staring slopping a recordi e WEEN 24 Playback ol a EE 24 Controlling multiple enee ene he eee ee 25 Bayer conversion Color correction and dadradmg 26 HOW e E 2 How to configure the output files formats 7 osaiedscnsicnaanceetaevantwapranddadactontelaunidndiendseianidantiniernenmsaneadonbonns 2T How to simplify the precedure to start a recording Ve 27 Ew O O ee E eet 27 Ribbon Reference rnnr aranin rarr nn ARA DARPA DEREARA DAREA DERE EEEDER PADER EREDAR rannan anann 28 DUERA EAE OTA IO AE E E E E E E A T EE 28 New Sequence ON Desk ttar rt rnrn
52. Pix in the folder C Program Files Norpix Streampix5 UDP TrigSender zip StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 144 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Video Out The Video Out module allows you to view multiple StreamPix real time camera feeds or stored video sequences simultaneously The module can send video to any monitor output from a VGA adapter meaning that the only limit to the number of concurrent video displays is the number of monitors available This module supports multiple VGA adapters making it possible to use one VGA output per workspace for image display in addition to the standard display found in the main StreamPix user interface Each of the devices and monitor s driven by the module are labeled Video Out in order to help differentiate them from the main display area where StreamPix is running The module can also be loaded using a single monitor configuration The Video Out window will appear on top of the main StreamPix display area Double click the image area to return to the main StreamPix window The Video Out module makes use of accelerated Microsoft DirectX 3D routines Because of the usage of DirectX routines the module has a low impact on the main CPU Instead it draws extensively from the GPU processing and display capabilities of the computer it is installed on The latest DirectX Runtime libraries are required to run the module http www microsoft com
53. Pix will show a prompt to confirm that the user wants to overwrite Of course it is recommended to avoid using this setting if files are automatically created when the record button is clicked as it would delay the recording start time When exporting apply color processing Either before or after modules This setting is revelant if the module has overlays to put on the image before of after the image is bayer processed StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 97 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Set description when marking a frame If enabled the user will be automatically prompted to enter a description for each marked frame at the time the frame is marked Notifications Frame drop notifications Disable the notification shown in the notification bar when frame drop is detected You can still see there were frame dropped by looking in the grabber docked dialog Images JPEG Quality Quality for the JPEG files Higher quality results bigger files and higher CPU usage TIFF Format Normal or multi paged i e all images are saved in a single file TIFF Date Time Tag content chose the format of the DateTime tag in the tiff file Standard Time YYYY MM DD HH MM SS the tiff specification format Full Time YYMMDD HHMMSSmmmuuu includes milliseconds and microseconds Raw Time time _t mmmuuu include the standard UNIX 32 bit time_t value and the milliseconds microseconds
54. Pix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 45 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com used if no reference frame is chosen Move Reference Frame to Current Playback Position This will set the current playback position as the reference frame The reference frame s time stamp is used to deduce the relative time of every other images By default the first frame of a sequence is used if no reference frame is chosen StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 46 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com a tia Home Workspace Camera Display Bayer Colors Markers Sequence Tools Help SP m En i S i lt gt K 2 SS e T j A Frame Time Trim Append a Sort Images in Take Clear Decrease Increase Trigg Trigger Set Recording Toggle Timeshifted Show Humber Stamp Sequence Sequence Chronological Order Reference Time Reference Time Playback Speed Playback Speed Pre Post Ey ent Module Position Playback Information Goto Manipulation Reference Time Manual Playback Goto Frame Allows to input a frame number index in the sequence file to jump to a specific image Also works with AVI files Goto Time Stamp Allows to input a time stamp in order to jump the the frame closest to it The dialog either asks for an absolute or relative time depending of the time mode selected in StreamPix Settings gt Playback Also works with AVI files HH MM S5 MS D ico fl aa
55. Simultaneous Readout StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Photon Focus Control settings Image Exposure Feature Port Correction Trigger Mode Settings Image Exposure OffsetX o Offset Y 0 SizeX 0 Sizey 0 2 Apply Command settings Image Exposure Exposure time ms 10 000 0 010 419 000 Constant Frame Rate Frame time ms A g 0 Simultaneous Readout StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 134 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Point To Point Caliper The Point To Point Caliper module lets you make point to point measurements on the current image To find the distance between two points left click on the first point and drag the mouse pointer to the second point The module will draw a line between them and the measured length will be shown For measurements to mean anything you must of course calibrate the module first as explained below The line will remain visible until a new measurement is made or you click without dragging or click the Clear button Measure tab In the Measure tab three options under Draw Overlays determine the circumstances in which overlays are drawn Point To Point Caliper Measure Calibrate Overlay Settings Draw Overlays Gt grab level On displayed frames Units On exported Frames Decimals _ Lock Overlay ignore mouse actions Check At grab lev
56. Standard light B 19 Standard light C 20 D55 21 D65 Default Neutral Sun Light 22 D75 23 D50 24 ISO studio tungsten I O Enable Input Control When enabled the input docked dialog will be shown in each workspace allowing to monitor various input lines to trigger a recording Enable Output Control When enabled the output docked dialog will be shown in each workspace allowing to send out signals in reaction to various events StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 99 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Recording Manager Editor C Documents and Settings yvVi pplication DatatNorpixStreamPixS Recordingscript sml Current Recording Script Commands Main Dag D Sec Double click here bo add a new command After the Last Command Restart Immediately default O Restart every Frames O Restart at specified interval Stop Condition s after running 1 time si will interrupt a Double click here to add a new stop condition Load From File Add Condition Save to File Remove Condition Reset This dialog can be brought up from either StreamPix Settings gt Recording Hate or Select Recording Manager in the Workspace tab It allows you to build your own recording scripts The current script if any will be shown Save to file will prompt you to save the current script to a file in
57. StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 104 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Plugin modules Loading amp unloading plugin modules This docked dialog is used to load and unload 3 external modules named or plugins To load a SA SE plugin select one from the available list on the Demo Module left and click on Load To close an external Image Levels Live Levels module select its entry in the active list and NI Pulse Generator click Unload Time Overlay Double clicking also works to load unload 3 Not available in the Single Camera version The two buttons at the bottom allow to Load all workspaces Unload all workspaces load unload a module In every workspaces In a single click External Modules StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 105 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Free Modules StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 106 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com AEC Control The AEC Control Module provides the ability to configure and control an AEC Adrienne Electronics Corporation time code generator board The module can also be used to read and display the current time code from a board that doesn t have time code generation capability The time code reader is enabled automatically each time the module is loaded and the current time code is displayed in the Rea
58. Synchronization Mode Ede Mirror Mode o ei V Enable FPN Correction ROI Size X 640 Y 480 sensitivity E z OffsetX 0 Y 0 Black Level p 106 ech 0 255 Shutter time us p 2855 1 3000 Frame Rate D 83 20 100 On the Settings page the available features are External Sync OFF ON Sync Source Cable Grabber Sync Polarity Low High Sync Mode Edge Level Mirror Mode OFF X Only Y Only X and Y and FPN correction enabled or disabled StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 133 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com Photon Focus Camera Control Tool This module lets you adjust the Photon Focus camera features via serial communication using the PFRemote API Therefore before loading the module the communication with the camera must be set up properly and tested in the PFRemote application For this module the frame grabber that connects to the Photon Focus camera must disable the serial communication Otherwise the module will not be able to connect to the communication port After a valid communication port has been selected in the Settings page the module connects to the camera and new pages will become available Image Exposure and Adjustments page These depend on the features supported by the camera model If a feature is not visible or not accessible it means that it s not supported The adjustable features might include ROI Shutter Time Frame Time Trigger Mode Correction
59. TPUT1 and OUTPUT3 gt set video INPUT2 to OUTPUT2 and OUTPUT4 playback mode gt set video INPUT3 to OUTPUT3 gt set video INPUT4 to OUTPUT4 Note another DVI matrix configuration can be added at the user s request StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 129 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com Metadata Overlay StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com The Metadata Overlay module can be used to display the metadata of an image as a string overlayed on the image Metadata Overlay Overlay Text Draw Metadata Overlays F At grab level On displayed frames On exported frames Metadata Overlay Overlay Text Position Top ett M Font Terminal MM Size 10 k Change text color Change text background color Visible metadata types Unsigned Short Integer Unsigned Integer Double The first tab allows you to set which metadata types will be overlayed on the image if present Some metadata types might not show if they can t be represented a a String i e some metadatas are stored in binary formats The Draw Metadata Overlays section is used to tell the module at which point s should the metadata strings be burned on the image The second tab allows to configure the text appearance The text position font size and color can be set from here If the text and background color are the same the text background will be transparent StreamPix5
60. a sync will be set via the DMI tab Configuring the Module to work with NMEA GPS Select the Device Setup tab to configure information related to the GPS device Select connection port USB or COM rs232 as well as COM port parameters Check with your GPS device for adjusting the parameters All NMEA compatible GPS are supported by the module Once the GPS related parameters are properly configured you can switch to the GPS tab If images are capturing images GPS information will be refreshed in that panel GPS tab GPS Font amp Position Settings Uzer Data DN Overlay Data Display Mode v Latitude Unknown No Overiay gt Longitude Unknown NoQverlay v Altitude m 0 Decimal Degree Speed m s 0 Time Bearing 0 In that panel the module allows the user to choose which information will be decoded from the NMEA string sent by the GPS device Latitude longitude altitude speed bearing and time can be decoded Depending on the GPS device not all information may be transmitted Check with your GPS provider in case some information cannot be displayed Since NMEA compatible GPS devices usually deliver a new message every second this information is refreshed every second As a consequence all frames received between 2 messages will be StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 160 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamP
61. a logging campaign an initial mile post value can be entered MilePost will increment according to the received DMI pulses starting from that initial value MilePost When enabled the MilePost value is stored with the GPS collected data If display mode overlay or burn to image is selected MilePost value will be added If Save GPS data to file is enabled the csv file will also contain the corresponding milepost reading for each image Log to file log mile postion to the GPS csv file Reset At any time the MilePost value can be reset to the initial mile DMI pulses are directly linked to the travel distance of the vehicle Image capture is synchronized with DMI pulses Adjusting the Trigger camera every N Pulses value allows to define the camera capture rate according travel distance Make sure to enter a proper value compatible with the campaign image sample rate vehicle maximum speed and camera maximum capture rate Finally the DMI Module can accommodate various hardware devices mounted into the computer according to your configuration Make sure to select the proper DMI input device StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 162 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Frame Grabber Pulse Generator FG Pulse Generator Pulse Frequency Hz 3 Turn ON Start Delay ms 0 Stop Delay ms 0 This module is used to set up the internal timing generator available on certain frame grabbers to
62. abber No camera connected Open camera Note When the camera is configured in 10 taps use the STP4Admin application found in the same folder as StreamPix5 exe to set the IDT M3 Control Tool module 10 taps mode SSES setting to Yes 19200 StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 118 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Image Levels Levels click to collapse This allows to see the minimum maximum and eee Blue mean red green and blue levels in an image Min Mean Max Min Mean Max Once the Image Levels module is loaded this docked dialog will be shown and will stay open until unloaded If the minimum and maximum for one channel reads as 0 or 255 this could mean that one or more pixel of the image is under exposed or saturated The Image levels module usefulness is reduced when working with an high contrast image and as the color levels are remapped for each image it should be unloaded to lower CPU usage StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 119 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Image Rolling Average The Image Rolling Average module can be applied on live captured frames from a camera or grabber device It supports all image formats with the exception of pixel pack BGR555 and 565 The module can be used 2 ways Rolling average mode When loaded in the same workspace as the grabber device the calculations are perfor
63. address and port in the IP Connection page These settings should be previously configured with the Sick SOPAS Engineering Tool available on the manufacturer s website The connection can be initialized manually by pressing the Connect button or automatically if the Reconnect at Startup option is selected LIDAR Logger Then in the Measurements page several parameters can be adjusted Angular Sweep Scan Rate and Angular Resolution Each time one of these parameters is changed the new configuration is sent automatically to the device Sometimes reconfiguring the device might take a few seconds The data captured from the device can be saved separately in a log file and or as metadata embedded in each recorded image Measurements Mounting Angles IP Connection Measurement Parameters Angular Sweep Si 10 to 165 5 to 185 Scan Rate Hz 75 Angular Resolution 7 lo 500 ei Save data to Image Metadata e When saving to a log file the module creates a text file in the same folder as the recorded sequence AVI MOV or image files and is using the recorded file name with a _lidar txt extension If the destination media for recording is RAM rather than disk the file is created in the working folder and is called RAM sequence _lidar txt LIDAR Logger Measurements Mounting Angles IP Connection Mounting Angles Pitch Angle x 7 20 90 to 90 Roll Angle ei 10 90 to 90 Ya
64. age acquisition the user interface consists of VCR style controls menus and dialog boxes that are easy to use and follow Main features Real time digital video recording to PC memory or hard disk in Windows XP Vista 7 Acquisition from a huge variety of IEEE 1394 Color RGB NTSC RS1 70 USB CameraLink GigE high resolution and high frame rate cameras Uncompressed images capture directly to RAM or hard disk drive s Compressed image capture using Windows based codecs or StreamPix compression utilities Capture Export to common file formats like BMP JPEG TIFF PNG AVI MOV and more Easy browsing of captured sequences with VCR style controls Record Play Pause Rewind and Fast Forward buttons Visit NorPix web site for a list of all ongoing supported cameras and frame grabbers www NorPix com IMPORTANT Please note that some features or commands described in this manual are not present in the Single Camera version of StreamPix 5 StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 8 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Minimum system requirements The minimum system requirements to run StreamPix successfully depends on how you will use the program Therefore the following guidelines are recommendations only StreamPix has the following minimum system requirements e APC equipped with Core2 duo 2 4Ghz or better 4GB of RAM or higher A supported IEEE digital or analog camera and comp
65. allows to control the image acquisition speed of your camera or frame grabber and synchronize the acquisition between multiple workspaces The cameras have to be configured to receive the exposure trigger from an external source i e the MCC device To get started simply enter the pulse frequency to be generated Since the pulse train triggers the camera exposure the pulse frequency will determine the exact camera frame rate Base frequency 20 00 MHz Pulse Frequency Hz 50 Pulse ON Channel LA wl Start delay rs 0 The MCC board can be programmed to generate a single pulse train by selecting a single channel or multiple synchronized pulse trains if all channels counters are used Optionally the MCC board can be programmed to start the pulse s with a certain delay Use the Pulse ON button to toggle the pulse train on and off StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 172 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Motion Detection The Motion Detection module is designed to perform real time image processing IP on incoming images and upon detecting significant motion or change in the image it can generate an event to StreamPix Motion Detection At load time the module is not performing any detection Source Image One has to push the Detect On Off button to turn on the From Camera C From Sequence monitoring algorithm MeanGray value More gt gt E P
66. amPix will display this dialog asking the user select the camera or frame grabber Grabber Selection To select a camera in the list highlight a camera or frame Choose your Grabber If you don t have a grabber ready choose Nope Virtual Grabber Hamamatsu DCAM Hazotec Et A0 imperis Frame Link imperis WCE Pro Integral Technology Flashbus Da Family i Integral Technology Flashbus Ma Family Lumeners USE ZU famil Noro Virtual Grabber EEEEEEEEEEEE Optronics MacroFire Optronics Magnatire Optronics Microfire Pitelink PL 4544 analog converter Pixelink PL ABS family grabber driver from the list then click on the Load button Even if no other drivers are found the Norpix Virtual Grabber will always be always available StreamPix will check for the the appropriate codes authorizing the use of the selected grabber and will attempt to load it If successful the workspace tab of the current workspace will show a new display a small camera icon the Live feed from the camera Note that loading a grabber can fail if it is not connected or currently used by another application The grabber can be unloaded by clicking on Unload in the Camera tab kW Start in LIVE Load To prevent grabber from starting in Live mode the Start Live box can be unchecked in the Load Grabber dialog box This can particularly useful with frame grabbers as they often attempt to load a default configuration file and since it is often i
67. arts recording Using this along with the Auto Create file option in StreamPix Settings gt Recording will automatically create a new sequence file every time the Pre Post Trigger event occurs lf Rename the file after the reference time stamp when the sequence is closed is checked then the sequence file will be renamed with the absolute time stamp of the reference frame The file will be in the same location but renamed to someting like Fri May 09 14 03 47 22 seq which show the date and time the reference frame of the sequence was captured StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 84 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Recording settings Auto Naming Cele O AVI Bayer Color Setting Value Displayed Data El General p Interface Auto create file Playback i Playback Rate Pre Post Trigger Recording Rate Remote Control Sequence Session Timeshifting Workspace s More Auto created file type on record Auto created file type on snap Use Recording start as reference time Stop Recording Delay ms Syne Start Stop Recording When a recording ends Auto clase file Auto export sequence to Use delayed auto export Switch to playback mode Buffer usage monitoring Maximum buffer usage allowed H maximum buffer usage is reached Limits Limit sequence on disk to A frames limit sequence in RAM ta frames Dont aut
68. atible frame grabber board Windows XP Vista 7 32 or 64 bit Monitor supporting resolution 1024x768 or more e A graphic adapter with good 2D performances PCI Express 16x or better recommended 7200 rpm hard disk s for recording with eventually RAID O configuration For sequences stored on hard disk StreamPix will always assume sufficient bandwidth availability If you are unsure of the capabilities of your system please contact NorPix technical support for advice For high speed cameras or multiple camera setups please check with NorPix for complete computer configurations StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 9 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Installing StreamPix Important Before installing StreamPix it is strongly recommended to read the installation notes for your particular video capture hardware When StreamPix is installed several components need to be registered with the system If a particular required DLL file is missing the correspondent StreamPix driver s will not be registered When attempting to load the hardware driver from within StreamPix an error message The DLL of the desired hardware is not correctly registered will be displayed Careful following of the installation notes will minimize the occurrence of such errors When purchased on a CD ROM StreamPix installation is automatically started by inserting the disk into the drive Other
69. ay Multi Display een ays Full Set Background Screen Color pot amp CH e ef Hybrid Mode WE 1U Left v E 2x1 1x 2X2 Gaz SE Fill Ene Bech dies 30 fps 30 fps S e SA el S Display Preferences m Multi Dis play Thumbnails View Refresh Rate Toggle Display Toggles the display of images on off On slower computers it is recommended to disable the image display to alleviate some CPU load while recording Full Screen Toggles the Full screen mode on off making the StreamPix cover even the Windows taskbar Use the F12 shortcut to toggle back to regular mode Overlays Enables or disables the overlay icons Sequence live record etc Set Background Color This allows to change the color of the display area in which images are displayed The display area is white by default so if the captured images have white borders changing the background color will help to clearly see the borders For low light conditions a dark red color is often preferred Zoom Zoom In and Zoom Out will respectively enlarge or reduce the displayed image by increments of 10 Reset Zoom to 100 will reset the image size to 1 1 ratio As having the zoom set higher or lower than 100 will use a bit of CPU it is recommended to leave the zoom at 100 while recording to free as much CPU as possible for the recording process Multi Display The various buttons of this group allow to configure the multi display row column
70. ay mode Not available in the Single Camera version Toggles the Multi Display on off Multi display allows to see multiple workspaces simultaneously It also allows to display both live feed and a sequence playback at the same time The current multi display layout can be customized from the button s drop down menu or from the Display tab Select All Workspaces Not available in the Single Camera version Enabling Select All Workspaces or pressing Cl A will highlights the workspace tabs in white and will automatically apply the commands in the Application Button menu and all playback recording commands to all workspaces unless specified otherwise in the Advanced Workspace Control Workspace tab StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 33 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com Mouse Dragging Allows to modify settings such as the image ROI the zoom factor or scroll the image by using the MOUSE StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Left and right mouse button functions for each mode are described in the table below LS S Normal N A N A Dragging toward the bottom right corner defines a ROI Define Dragging toward the top left corner of the image will reset the ROI camera to its maximum possible ROI N A Dragging toward the bottom left or the top right will abort the current ROI selection Scroll amp Drag to scroll the image in the window mares acl sea see Zoom Use t
71. b It is recommended to use a multi display configuration with the Show in a Display to allow viewing the image and histogram at the same time Live Levels Show hee Show ina Display Both iMd R d da The Sequence Levels histogram is a similar module that allows to view the grey level averages for the frames in the current sequence Everytime a frame is read from the sequence the graph is updated to the new value Browsing trough the sequence by using the sequence slider will provide a quick way to survey its general levels while pressing play will read and each frame in the playback sequence StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 126 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com LTC Overlay The LTC Overlay module will show the LTC value stored in the first 32 bits of each image requires an supported LTC source device The module has no docked dialog when loaded However it has a few settings that can be changed through the STP4Admin application found in the same folder as StreamPix5 exe The settings are the following LTC Overlay Module show frame number and LTC Overlay Module font size StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 127 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Lynx IPX Camera Control This module allows to control and adjust some of the most important Lynx ImperX camera features by sending specific commands to the came
72. before the change s takes effect Click on Customize Application Menu to choose which items appear in the menu Uncheck the items to hide them Customize Application Button Menu Select which items will be visible in the Application Button Menu e Mew Sequence on Disk e New Sequence in RAM y New AVI e New Quicktime movie e Men Image Sequence 5ub Menu e Nen Image Sequence gt Windows Bitmap i bmp e Nen Image Sequence gt Joint Photographic Expert Group jpg e New Image Sequence gt Tagged Image File Format EE e Nen Image Sequence gt Portable Network Graphic png e Nen Image Sequence gt Flexible Image Transport System Fit e New Image Sequence gt Lossless JPEGZO00 f jp2 e New Image Sequence gt SMPTE Moving Picture Exchange dps Open Sequence a Cancel StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 75 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Clicking on Customize Ribbons will show the following dialog Customize Ribbons Current Ribbon Layout Available commands Camera E Camera LIVE LIVE Hardware Properties Hardware Properties Live Adjustments Live Adjustments Recording Recording Record Record Snap Snap Playback Playback First Frame First Frame Step Back Step Back Play Pause Play Pause Step Forward Step Forward Last Frame Last Frame SUT UI Show Docking Panel Show Docking Panel Multi Display Mode Multi Display Mode Sele
73. buttons to manually connect or disconnect current workspace to StreamPix Remote Checking the Broadcast check box will send the command to all other workspaces so you won t have to click Connect or Disconnect for each workspace A connection may fail if The server is not running nor accepting new connections The address and port number are not the same as those StreamPix Remote is listening to e A firewall blocks the port that StreamPix Remote is listening to Make sure you configure the firewall to allow StreamPix 5 to access the network Windows Firewall has blocked some features of this program Windows Firewall has blocked some features of Streampix4 on all public and private networks SC Name Streampix5 Publisher NorPix Inc Path C program files norpix streampix5 streampixS exe Allow Streampix4 to communicate on these networks Private networks such as my home or work network Public networks such as those in airports and coffee shops not recommended because these networks often have litte or no security What are the risks of allowing a program through a firewall StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 89 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Sequence Settings Streampix Settings Auto Naming AVI Bayer Color Setting Displayed Data Bay Interface Force frame rate Disabled Playback Pre Post Trigger Recording Remote Co
74. c www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com The Tools tab a GA Home Workspace Camera Display Bayer Colars Markers Sequence Tools Help a a e e Reload Saved Scripts E CS l Se Save Current Scripts G Recording Load Save Performance Disk Windows Debug Scheduler SS Edit scripts Benchmarking Task Manager Log scheduler Configurations Script Engine Tools Recording Scheduler er ee es StreamPix Recording Scheduler allows to setup recording sessions which can StreamPix uses the Windows Task Scheduler to schedule recording sessions start stop without user intervention One Use the the buttons below to configure the active recording schedule Time daily weekly or monthly recordings are available setup daily recording The recording scheduler allows one recording task to be defined If you need more than one you can use the Windows Setup monthly recording Task Scheduler Some information on Delete current recording task how to do that is available by clicking on Delete current recording task Advanced scheduling Advanced scheduling Except for the one time recording all eS Gs Gee i other recording schedules will repeat until reg qa Monty recording SK rung Wa t 10 14 an x x x EE the task is deleted either by creating a JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC Recording new task or by clicking on Delete current duration is 11 22 rec
75. ce Tools Si Ribbon Bar gt ES Record Snap First Step Play Pause Step Last Set Set 5 StreamPix e Live Adjustments Frame Back Forward Frame Select All Workspaces Zoom image First Last Clear Selection Display v Help Settings Camera Recording Playback F GUI Mouse dragging Selection Shortcuts Settings camera 1 Tell g camera 2 aR Camera 3 wt E 4 ee Workspaces Tabs SE CH CH es Sie EN SE Norpix Virtual Grabber gt d 4 A D D D M D Display data Peamera 3 ot Virtual Grabber FPS 31 Buffers 1 2 5 FrarmeCount 0 File None APN IRIS Buffers 1 5 Peak Buffer Usage 2 ma e OOOO Display Area URNA Docking Panel Status icons v Sequence Slider EE Status Bar gt 640x480 921600 bytes BGR packed image 8 24 bits Multi Workspace Control Ctrl 4 OFF Offset 0 0 Zoom X 100 100 Coords 764 331 255 255 255 Manual Playback Controls With StreamPix 5 the interface was migrated to the ribbon interface Originaly introduced with Microsoft Office 2007 ribbons are the modern way to help users find understand and use commands efficiently and directly with a minimum number of clicks with less need to resort to trial and error and without having to refer to Help Additionally the Ribbon interface is 100 customizable allowing the user to add remove tabs and configure the content of each tabs While it might take some time for users with a background using previous versions of StreamPix to ada
76. cheme can be selected for formating the time stamp Please contact Norpix if a specific scheme is required It can easily be added In the Font amp Position bat you can specify the font type font size For best results use fixed width fonts such as Terminal or Courrier Time Overlay General Font amp Pasition Font Change Background Color Size Change Font Color Placement E Custom gage Bee Use Change Font Color and Change Background Color to set the text overlay colors If the text background color is the same as the font color no background color will be used resulting in a transparent background The image location can be one of the 9 pre defined positions or a custom position can be set by specifying a precise horizontal amp vertical offset StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 141 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com T S Sync Monitor The Time Source Sync Monitor Module can be used in conjunction of StreamPix accurate time source devices The module monitors the time source receiver devices and reports in real time synchronization status information Supported hardware devices are Meinberg GPS and IRIG Spectracom GPS and IRIG Description of the various status mode ieee 1 The current time source does not implement sync status LES Ei ati An error occurs while querying sync status from the time receiver TS Synced The time source recei
77. color images only resulting in a loss of information for images using higher bit depth Tagged Image File Bug Uses a lossless compression algorithm resulting in relatively smaller file size no loss of information Supports mono and color images at any bit depth Compression algorithm is CPU intensive resulting in longer export times than with the Bitmap format Multipaged Tagged Image File tif same as the non multipaged tiff Allows a full sequence of images to be stored in a single file Same as the non multipaged tiff Support for multipaged tiff is scarce outside specialized applications Joint Photographic Experts Group jPg Good image compression One of the most widespread formats on the Internet meaning that almost anybody can view a jpg image Supports 8 bit mono and 24 bit color images only resulting in a loss of information for images using higher bit depth The compression will result in image precision loss Flexible Image Uncompressed so no image quality loss Supports both mono and color images at any bit depth A fits file is Color image are divided into 3 individual exported image Transport System composed of 2 segments a header data files red green and blue The color fits which containing image format plan is appended to the file name information and a table holding the image data More about fits file format same as the non mult
78. count Once the layout is done you can assign a display to each area by right clicking in each The Auto Fill button will create enough rows and columns to show the the active display of every workspace and will automatically fills the areas While Multi display is enabled you can assign a particular display to any area by dragging the workspace tab or a specific display button by using the left mouse button while holding Ctrl Drag a StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 41 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com display icon from a workspace s tab to link to a particular display or drag the tab itself to link with the active display of a workspace You can also use the Hybrid Mode checkbox to toggle the Hybrid display which is a mix of single amp multi displays With this option enabled the display area will be split in two One side will be the regular multi display area and the other side will show the currently selected dispay The number of columns rows in the hybrid multi display area can be customized with the usual controls You can also change the position and size of the hybrid display area The multi display area will be resized accordingly Thumbnails View Click on Enable to toggle thumbnail view while the sequence is in playback mode Using and will increase or decrease thumbnail size Browsing can done with the arrow buttons or by clicking in the display area and u
79. crement Recording Rate Remote Control Auto naming for EXPORTING to movie files Sequence Scheme sourcepath sourcename Edit Reset ae Append a suffix to the file name ex frames 10 40 Timeshifting Workspace s Auto naming for EXPORTING to image files SE Scheme workingfolden Ver JM JD Append an image index the base file name Default value of the customtoken EE Tip Enable the Auto create file Global option in the Recording settings page to automatize file creation even more Edit increment token settings The Auto Naming allows to generate file names without requiring user input each and every time a file is created Simply type a naming scheme in each edit box making sure that the resulting path leads to a valid directory Automatic File Naming can be enabled for recording exporting movies and images files The Reset buttons will restore the default naming scheme The RECORDING schemes are used when directly recording from the live stream while the EXPORTING are used when exporting from a sequence file Movies are seq avi and mov Images are omp jpg tif etc StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 62 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Clicking on one of the Edit button will show this dialog allowing the user to change the related autonaming scheme Edit Autonaming Scheme
80. ct All Workspaces Select All Workspaces ne Add to Current Ribbon Type Category r A category contains one or more panels Default Size Fixed Use default Ribbon Management Load Layout Save Layout The current ribbon layout is shown on the left and all the available commands are on the right Dark blue represent categories tabs light blue are the panels groups and white are the individual controls Double click or click Add to Current Ribbon on an item in the Available commands list will insert it in the Current Ribbon Layout list You can use the Move Up Move Down to reorder the items in the list Delete item removes the item You can use the buttons in Insert to create your own custom categories panels labels or separators Information about the currently selected item in green in the list is shown at the bottom of both list Restore Default will restore the default ribbons OK will save the changes made they will take effect next time StreamPix is launched You can also load save your ribbon configuration in case you frequently need to switch between different layouts StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 76 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Metadata settings Streampix Settings Auto Naming ANI Bayer Color Setti Displayed Data g Sequence Metadata Interface Save metadata along with sequence file Meta
81. currently selected value and Reset default values returns the list to default values Mirror Values will mirror the values For example if you list consist of 0 10 20 30 Mirror will add 10 20 and 30 A negative FPS value indicates a backward playback and a positive value is a forward playback The zero 0 00 FPS value is mandatory and is used as the Paused value and will be automatically added when the OK button is clicked on StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 81 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com lf Use automatic values is checked StreamPix will dynamically build a custom list of FPS values based on the Suggested frame rate specified in the current sequence header AVI playback rates AVI playback is handled differently as the values are percentages of the AVI normal speed Compared to the regular playback speed 50 will playback at half speed and 200 will playback twice faster Pressing Add allows to add a new value to the list Remove selected erases the currently selected value and Reset default values returns the list to default values The zero 0 speed and normal 100 speed values are mandatory will be automatically added as needed when the OK button is clicked on AVI files don t allow backward playback so only positive values are allowed StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 82 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech S
82. d only Name Printed display name ParamA Type to set conversion function parameter A ParamB Type to set conversion function parameter B This tab can be used to adjust font and position when overlay or burn to the image Font amp Position Overlay Position Offset 200 KE 10 jo Offsety 0 Overlay Layout Horizon C Vertical Font Select what font to use Size Select what font size to use Overlay layout Set how to overlay DAQ data horizontal or vertical mode In horizontal mode all analog readings are displayed on a single horizontal line In vertical mode all analog readings are displayed one per line Digital data is displayed on a separate column Overlay Position OffsetX and offsetY Set where to overlay DAQ data Change Font Color Set overlay text color Change background Color Set overlay text background color StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 158 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Distance Measuring Instrument Module DMI The Distance Measuring Instrument Module is capable of controlling image capture rates for multiple cameras based on the received information from a Pulse Distance Interval signal PDI Furthermore current GPS readings and current milepost information can also be gathered during the image capture and recording process and embedded with each image The DMI module is made of the following compone
83. data Metadata fixed size Playback Metadata info size Playback Rate Pre Post Trigger Project Recording Recording Rate Remote Control Sequence Session Timeshitting Workspace s More Save metadata along with sequence file If enabled when streaming to a sequence file Streampix will also save the metadata bundled with the saved frames You can see the metadata bundled with the images with the Metadata Spy Module and or the Metadata Overlay Module The metadata is saved in the same folder as the sequence in a file with the same name as the sequence with an added metadata extension Ex Capture123 seq metadata Metadata constant size If 0 the metadata will be stored with a dynamic size for optimal file usage However if you require recording in loops or pre post i e rewriting over old images amp metadata then you need to set a constant value for the size This value can be computed using the Metadata Spy Module which will monitor the live feed to estimate the minimum size needed You can also use the Metadata Manager from the Tools ribbon Metadata info size If you use a 3rd party module that use a custom metadata type StreamPix need to save some information about this custom type to the metadata file Use the Metadata Manager to compute the required metadata info size StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 77 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech S
84. der field along with Drop Frame DF state as shown below AEC Control Reader 00 13 29 2327 DF NO Enable LTC Generator Time 00 13 29 28 DF NO esc Drop Frame Time 00 00 00 00 set PAL start able Quip Model PCI VLTC RG 2 Rev N270 AEC _NTTC DLL ES To enable the time code generator if present check the Enable LTC Generator check box Generated time code is displayed in the Time field along with Drop Frame DF state The time code generator can be configured to generate a NTSC with or without frame drop PAL or FILM time code start from a specified time using computer clock reset time To run the time code generator simply click on the START button To turn it off click on the STOP button as shown below To leave the time code running but temporary disable the output click on the Disable Output button AEC Control Reader 00 00 33 15 DF NO Enable LTC Generator Time 00 00 33 16 DF NO Ntsc Drop Frame Ze EE PAL Time 00 00 00 00 Set P ls FILM Ee Disable Output Model PCI VLTC RG2 Rev N270 AEC _NTTC DLL EZ The Model status box on the bottom of the module window displays information about AEC hardware and driver version StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 107 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com BIRGER Control StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com The BIRGER Control Module allows lens control via a BIRGER unit
85. e computer Red DMI LED The LED will be flashing at the rate of the PDI No motion will generate no pulse Note that in order for the pulse to be visible you may need to adjust the duration of the pulse via configuration of your DMI device The LED is directly connected to the input line If the PDI pulse duration is very short a few milliseconds for instance you may not visually see those PDI pulse duration may be too short for the naked eye However the NI device will still be able to properly handle pulses with durations as short as 50 nanoseconds RED Camera LED The LED will be flashing each time a capture signal is sent to each camera When the LED is off no image is captured Loading the software module The module can be loaded via External Module Docking panel Select DMI Positioning and click Load Once loaded the module will need to be setup properly via various tabs StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 159 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com External Modules Available Active Crosshair DAG Capture FG Pulse Generator File Automatic Deletion PS Positioning GPS Time Card Information Load Unload Load all workspaces Unload all workspaces GPS related information will be setup via the Device Setup tab Overlay information font and position can be setup via the Font and Position tab while information related to the DMI control and camer
86. e oa Te tele NEE 40 Select ENEE EE 40 A rege e DEEG 40 Be GEET 41 StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 3 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com keete ei 2 Aan cre eee ee ee eee ee ae eee ee ee 41 SEUEe E 41 EE eebe een 41 SELE El ele Le e EE 41 VAS E 41 K el LEE 41 Thumbnails View 42 single Display amp Multi Display Refresh Hates 42 Bet Ee le EE 43 fal 918 94 Een c re re eee ee ee en eee ene 43 ADHV AAA OM BE ue Mle Lt E 43 ADDV AAA ON aile en FAMESSA Ea ee ee ee eee 43 a Weal IB 43 Eed 43 SESSA E dase cs E E E T E T E T E E 44 Recalculate Balance 44 a 21 11 11s EE 44 The Markers ta 45 Goto Previous Marker norna rnnr aranna rannan annn n n arran anner rane 45 Goto re eM EE 45 Goto Reference krame rnrn nr arannana Drar anA DAREA DERE EREA nna annann ra aran nnna 45 Add Marker at Current Recording Hoston 45 Add Marker at Current Playback Hoston 45 Move Reference Frame to Current Recording Hoston 45 Move Reference Frame to Current Playback Hoston 46 THS eoue rce T E 47 Goto mire 111E ccc ceccceccecececcecececeececeeeececeeeeeecececeececeeeecececeeeececeneecececensececeneececesenceseneseaeaeessnsneness 47 Cie OM He le EE 47 Relance Lt e 47 Algen ss elt ne 47 Sort Images in Chronological E re EG 48 Take Reference Tme rannan arannana nanan rnaar annann annann anene 48 Clear Reference Hl 1 48 Decrease Ss ia lei DE 48 increase Playback E 48 Gate 0 ot r OPO n
87. e Event to Trigger e e ROI Settings ithra Mean Gray Value More gt gt Algorithm _ e Detect Event to Trigger Pre Post Reset M More gt gt ROI Settings Image Source The module can be applied on an incoming stream of images from a camera or eventually for tune up purposes it can be applied while playing back a sequence During playback no events are generated since there is no point in managing recording status while playing back Algorithm Choose among 3 available algorithms according to what you think will best suit your needs Depending on the algorithm selection some extra specific parameters need to be adjusted Mean Gray level Event Wen e Select the condition for when the event should be triggered Above Threshold Below Threshold e Eventually adjust the threshold value Mean Gray Frames 100 0 Absolute Difference e The percentage Mean Gray defines the minimum 47 5 value in pixel intensity that must be encountered IT before an event is triggered oa e The percentage ROI specifies a minimum number of pixels where the change must occur Reference Image Gei Use Previous Image a l Ge S e Since Absolute Difference is performing an image subtraction between the last received image and a reference image you need to define what the reference image will be It can be the previous captured image or an image that is C Use Constant Image StreamPi
88. e increment to the starting value everytime the workspace is reopened Padding 0 digits Cancel The increment token will start at the value specified in the Starting Value edit box This value is normally reset every time the workspace is reopened ex everytime StreamPix launches but that behavior can be overriden by unchecking the checkbox here In that case the starting value will be the last value used in the previous session You can specify at which time you want the increment to take place either after each new file or after each recording Default is After creating a new target file and should cover most needs but the other option is there as a convenience for peculiar recording scenarios Finally you can also specify the increment s padding in digits StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 65 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com AVI settings Streampix Settings Auto Naming an Bayer Color Default Settings Displayed Data Interface Playback Pre Post Trigger Recording Remote Control 7 Force Frame Fate Sequence er Playback Output Format Timeshifting Workspace s More This page is used to set the codec options used when creating a new AVI file which can also be accessed in the Application Button gt New AVI dialog However if Automatic File Naming is enabled the settings on this page are those that will be
89. e on Export Comment Burn to Image on Export text is burned in place of image pixels for each image while exporting Comment Type multi line text to be overlay or burn Font amp Position Tab This tab can be used to adjust font and position when overlay or burn to the image Not that the font and position rendering may be different for overlay mode versus burn mode In overlay mode font and position are applied only on the final image render bitmap for display Hence zoom factor has no effect for instance While burn to image font and position are applied directly to the image pixels Hence zoom factor applied for display purpose may change th3e way the image and text are rendered Font Select what font to use comment Overlay General Font amp Position Size Select what font size to use Overlay Position Font Terminal O tx 0 e Overlay Position OffsetX and offsetY Set where to BE l overlay Text size 49 sl Offsety 0 Change FontColor Change Background Color Change Font Color Set overlay text color e gy e Change background Color Set overlay text StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 112 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Exposure Time Reader The exposure time reader module can be used to read the current exposure time value directly from the camera registers and display it in the image as a text overlay message In orde
90. e recording is manualy started but the image capture is controlled by a HW trigger Or other cases where you need the reference time to be exactly the time at which the recording started Stop Recording Delay Allows to specify a wait period between the time the record button is pressed to stop the recording and the time at which the recording will actually be stopped Synch Start Stop Recording on LTC special mode to synchronize start stop recording on current time code received from an LTC reader board If enabled the current time code is rounded up to the second O frame time code up to 2 seconds delay and used to determine the exact time code value in the future when start stop recording will occur The same value is provided for all workspaces to ensure time synchronization When a recording ends Auto close file Automatically close the current file when the recording stops Auto export sequence to Choose a format SEQ AVI BMP JPG etc to export to Use delayed auto export StreamPix will wait until every workspaces as stopped recording before exporting Switch to playback mode The workspace display will automatically switch the playback mode Buffer usage monitoring Maximum buffer usage allowed StreamPix can trigger an action if the buffer gets too high lf maximum buffer usage is reached StreamPix can either do nothing or stop the recording on the current workspace or on all workspaces Limits Limit Se
91. e removed File Automatic Deletion La Folder to Manage The folder that will be Folder to Manage E Temmp 2 m monitored Deletion Rule Delete oldest fle to kesp oniy latest 7 10 Files Deletion Rule The operating mode for RE Movies avior mov removing old files Time Out Delete files older than XXX Hours Number of file Delete oldest file to keep only latest XXX Files File Type File type to monitor It is possible to specify a file type extension to be monitored Sequence Sequence file only Movies avi or mov All Files any files StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 114 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Focus Assist The Focus Assist module provides a mean to quickly adjust a camera s focus A red curve is going to appear on the image upon loading the module wm oer D I ee ee ase CS ge 2 age K j mar eo T sales The line represents the average sharpness per pixel column A flat line means the image is out of focus A line marked with pikes means the image is in focus Adjust the camera focus to have the steepest pikes StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 115 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com A ROI can be set to increase the tool s efficiency The ROI can be set either manually through the ROI Define field or using the Interactively click and drag to define ROI
92. earest pixel faster bilinear or bicubic slower more CPU intensive Because edges are typically degraded during image rotation one can enable edge smoothing By default the module is using the camera grabber as the image source but can eventually be re configured to be able to perform rotation using for source image a playback sequence or displayed image Most image formats are supported with the exception of all compressed image formats and pixel packed image formats as well as a few color image formats such as RGB555 and RGB565 StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 122 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Image Merge This module can combine multiple video sources together to create a larger image It can be applied while live or recording images merge stream is recorded according the recording settings There is no alignment check nor frame time stamp synchronization The module only waits for receiving all frames from each source and combine images together into a single new image Sources should be the same image format for but can have different image size Current implementation does not support all image format Image format that includes pixel pack are not supported For other image formats please contact Norpix tech support for an updated module Image Merge Source Camera Layout Keep bet Farmat Source image layout set output image e ______________ layout Max
93. earliest time at which image processing can be done the frames will already be processed before being streamed to disk displayed or exported Apply XXX on Displayed Frames If this option is checked the selected processing will be applied on images before they are drawn in the display area The processing will only be done if the frame is actually drawn on screen This process takes place at the end of the process chain and thus doesn t affect frames before they have been recorded Checking this will have no effect if Apply XXX on Captured Frames is also checked because the processing won t be done twice Apply XXX on Exported Frames If this option is checked the selected processing will be applied on sequence images before they are exported to another format The source images remain unchanged Bayer Pattern Chose the bayer pattern corresponding to the camera CCD Accuracy The bayer conversion algorithm accuracy for high quality conversion This algorithm accuracy is only used when applying bayer conversion on exported frames When applied at grab level or on displayed frames StreamPix use the Fast accuracy e Fast bilinear forward interpolation fastest less accurate e Accurate IPP full bilinear algorithm using intel IPP library e Adaptive HDDA Adaptive Homogeneity Directed Demosaicing Algorithm image with bit depth greater than 8 bit will first be converted down to 8 bit in order to apply this interpolation Strea
94. ed image It supports all bitmap file formats monochrome 16 color 256 color 24 bit color The bitmap file can be applied to all StreamPix supported image formats The Bitmap Overlay Module can be used for instance when some constant information needs to be applied on images such as a logo or reticule General Tab This includes general settings for the module Bitmap Specify the bitmap File to be used General Color amp Position Bitmap File Burn to Image on Capture Bitmap is burned in C Lisers Norpix Desktop gitmaps bitmapMono b __ place of image pixels for each image at capture time Burn to Image On Capture Burn to Image on Export Bitmap is burned in Burn to Image on Export place of image pixels for each image while exporting Generally it is not necessary to check both options For instance if burn to image on capture is selected the resulting image will include the bitmap Upon export there is no need to re process the images again Color amp Position Tab This tab can be used to define the transparency color as well as the position where the bitmap will be burned to the image General Color amp Position Transparency All bmp files must include either a Transparency Position set white or black background color That background Blak white Waa E color is used as a transparency color to display la is e eT normal image pixels All the colors except the Cha
95. ed after 3 minutes The available licenses can be monitored using an http link If for example the computer IP is 192 168 1 80 the address will be http 192 168 1 80 6002 More details on the Sentinel Server can be found in the ReadMe pdf file that comes with the Sentinel setup By default this file is installed in C Program Files SafeNet Sentinel Sentinel Protection Installer 7 6 1 English StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 186 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Sequence files For information on the sequence file format see the documentation accessible from Help gt Sequence File Format Event Markers Finally the I O markers are stored in an XML file with for each event in the following fields Name The name of the I O event as named when the I O was configured Description The event that occurred rising edge falling edge etc and the device amp line on which it occurred Framelndex The index of the last frame to have been recorded when the event occurred Timestamp The timestamp in seconds in time_t format of the last frame TimestampMS The millisecond part of the timestamps TimeString The timestamp formatted in a readable string Valid 1 for valid O for invalid When doing loop recording if a marked frame gets overwritten the associated event will still be kept but will be marked as invalid because the related frame no longer exist
96. ed using 1D or 3D look up table Those tables are calculated via 3 party software and can be loaded within StreamPix Note all the file format are supported both both 1D or 3D Check each section for further details 1D look up table setup 1D Look up table mode Enable the usage of a 1D LUT for color grading Beside the ability to load a LUT file a predefined transform LUT is also available to apply a negative conversion 1D look up table File Specifies the 1D look up table file that can be loaded for processing Current Supported format e Noprix 1D Text 1D LUT file txt nlt Flame and lustre 3ld file ColorCorrection cc ColorCorrectionCollection ccc Cinespace file csp Houdini file lut lridas_ Cube dei Cube lridas_itx file itx lridas_look file look Spi1d file spi1d Truelight spi1d Norpix 1D LUT file can easily be generated manually for basic correction and grading This file has the following format A text file comma separated that can be Excel generated save Excel file as a csv format can be used The text file syntax is very simple Each line contains 4 entries Level value to be remapped followed with corresponding Blue Green and Red values e There is no need to specify all the LUT values and entries Only the needed value must be specified All missing values will be interpreted as Leave as Is e Level can be specified as range using characters e commentaline
97. el for overlays to be drawn on images as they are received from the camera Check On displayed frames for overlays to be shown regardless of image source camera or sequence file and regardless of whether overlays will be saved Lastly check On exported frames to apply overlays to images exported from a sequence in all file formats seq avi bmp jpg etc Check Lock Overlay to make the module ignore mouse actions In the Units box enter the unit of measurement desired pixels mm m cm km etc In the Decimals box enter the number of digits to show after the decimal point Click the Clear button to erase the current measurement line StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 135 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Calibrate tab When you switch to the Calibrate tab the module enters calibration mode which is used to set reference values When you subsequently draw a measurement line those values will be used to compute the line s real length Switching to any other tab puts the module out of calibration mode Point To Point Caliper Measure Calibrate Overlay Settings Calibration is running as long as the Calibrate tab is selected Calibration Method Calibrated Length Drag the line s handles s needed Enter the Inter pixel DS fine length and press EE Apply Between 2 points vell Double clicking reset the line at cursor Between 2 point
98. enu allows the user to select which color channel should be controlled Select All Channels to apply the same formula for all 3 channels or select each individual color plan you want to work with The Reset Button allows the user to reset back to the default values Gamma 1 Brightness 0 Gain 1 and Contrast 0 StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 147 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Workspaces Tab Working with Multiple Workspaces This tab is available only when the Multiple Workspaces check box is selected on the General tab The Video Out display area can then be shared amongst selected workspaces Two display modes are available e Hybrid where one workspace is displayed full screen and others are display as thumbnails e Split mode where the Video Out area is equally split among the various workspaces In split mode the layout is defined using Video Layout X and Y parameters General Bayer Conversion Color Processing Workspaces E E Ier e Video Layout X or Y Set row and Video Layoutx 2 Videotayouty 2 zl column count Source Index Workspace Display Mode Equally Split e l 1 a e Display Mode Select between the mera 1 1 4 available display modes e Hybrid with thumbnails on the right EI Apply Bayer amp Color Process eae e Hybrid with thumbnails on the bottom e Equally Split between workspaces e Main Hyb
99. ettings Shutter Mode Free Run Ke Enable FPN Correction BEE On the Settings page the available features Shutter Polarity Positive Edge are Shutter Mode Free Run PWC Timer EEN oer Shutter Polarity Positive or Negative Edge Pr Hor en Mirror Mode OFF X Only Y Only X and Y and FPN correction enabled or disabled Note When the camera is configured in 10 taps use the STP4Admin application found in the same folder as StreamPix5 exe to set the Mikrotron Control Tool module 10 taps mode setting to Yes StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 132 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Optronis Camera Control Tool This module allows to control and adjust some of the most important Optronis camera features by sending specific commands to the camera via serial communication Therefore the frame grabber that connects to the Optronis camera must be loaded and the serial communication must be enabled before loading the module into the current workspace Optronts Control Tool Image Settings The Image page of the interface lets you adjust the ROI Sensitivity Gain Black Level Shutter Time Frame Rate Setting the ROI defines a new range for available frame rates Changing the Frame Rate sets a new range for available shutter times Image Settings External Synchronization OFF ei Synchronization Source cabe Synchronization Polarity Low
100. evice are listed there Select whatever channel s you want to work with All channels will be recorded to the same WAV file It is then possible to use a post recording utility to split the audio channels to separate wav files StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 154 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com Output Tab with ASIO device driver General Settings Audio File Device Input Output Channel Map Custom Map Source Software Out 1 Fast Track Ultra Software Out 2 Fast Track Ultra Software Out 3 Fast Track Ultra Software Out d Fast Track Ultra Software Ouk 5 Fast Track Ultra Software Out 6 Fast Track Ultra Software Cut 7 Fast Track fra lt iiil Destination Channel 0 StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Channels Display the total number of output channels available with the device Channel Map Define the mapping of input channel to output channels Using this feature the module can redirect any input channel to any output channel This is convenient when recording for instance 4 input channels while having only 2 output speakers Default Map Output each input channel to its corresponding output channel Custom Map Define your own mapping StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 155 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com DAQ Capture Module The DAQ Capture Module allows users to capture analog and digital data from various A D
101. ew workspace images both in a room with normal light and in El Camera 10 _ a dark room the exposure time would need to El Camera 11 Reset Ibe adjusted from one condition to another E Camera 12 F Duplicate ba saree Duplicate To avoid having to adjust exposure every time E Camera F Camera 4 Gsm the camera is moved from one room to the cameras Ee other workspaces can be used to save Fi Camera E d Delete presets This can be done by first setting the E Camera 7 grabber s for to normal lighting and naming its El Camera 8 workspace Normal then setting it for the dark LECH room and create a new workspace named Dark Import from Settings File Export to Settings File Done An important thing to know is that grabber settings are saved and loaded in the workspace to which the grabber is connected This way when StreamPix is opened and Dark workspace is loaded the camera settings will be reloaded according to the Dark presets StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 19 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Loading and controlling a camera To get a live feed StreamPix must first load a camera driver When a new workspace is created it will automatically ask the user to choose a grabber The grabber used by an existing workspace can be selected by clicking on the Load button in the Camera tab In either case Stre
102. ew Sequence in RAM In All Workspaces New AVL CH In All Workspaces New Quicktime movie ca In All Workspaces New Image Sequence da Ope a p i ib In All Workspaces Export Current Image to F i In All Workspaces Export Selection to p A In Al Workspaces Export Full Sequence to P Ae setina fi Et Hovering the mouse cursor over a menu command or any ribbon bar command will show a tooltip with a short explanation about what the command does StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 13 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com 8 Zi The ribbon interface also feature the Quick access toolbar le ize Quick Ib ie i ents om we GN which is located in the title bar of the window The toolbar 7 LIVE ee can also be moved to appear just below the ribbon bar ag Hardware More Commands LE Live Adjust Show Below the Ribbon Camer Minimize the Ribbon eegend a 1 Be ee hier Options The Quick access toolbar can be customized Choose commands from by the user to get a shortcut to any command Sr User marua available in either the application button ame menu or the ribbon bar las a Load Camera Frame Grabber Clicking More commands in the Quick wk Sinn Access toolbar menu will show this dialog E From here the user can add any command to Mise the toolbar It is also possible to assign cee z keyboard shor
103. format for the exchange of basic primary color grading information A 3 parameters formula can be used to define most possible remapping and color correction The formula for ASC CDL color correction is out i s o where out is the color graded pixel code value ei is the input pixel code value O black 1 white eS Is slope any number O or greater nominal value is 1 0 eO is offset any number nominal value is 0 ep iS power any number greater than 0 nominal value is 1 0 The formula is applied to the three color values for each pixel using the corresponding slope offset and power gamma for each color channel A Channel pull down menu allows the user to select Channel Blue Channel i Reset which color channel should be controlled Select All Gamma Offset ain Channels to apply the same formula for all 3 channels J 5 66 or select each color plan you want to work with J 0 00 sec The Reset Button allows the user to reset back to default values Gamma 1 Offset 0 Gain 1 A registry key can be set to change some more ranges All key type are DWORD key path HKEY CURRENT USER Software Norpix Streampix Admin Key name GainRange Set Gain range default value 8 Key name GammaRange Set Gamma range default 8 0 8 Key name OffsetRange Set Offset range default 2 2 2 Key name RealOffset 1 Enable display real pixel intensity offset value default 0
104. g is typically performed when the image is received from the camera driver API Because of that it does not correspond to the exact time at which the camera sensor is exposed The delay is typically equal to the sensor read out time plus the transfer time needed for all pixels to be received inside the computer memory plus the time the Windows Thread Scheduler will need to notify StreamPix that a new frame is ready This total time is dependent on the capture media and some other parameters like the pixel clock At worst when the media bandwidth is used at its maximum the time stamp can be off by up to 1 fps By default each captured image is time stamp using the current computer time However Streampix supports also various other possible time sources Provided you have purchase the External Time Source option you can change from the default time source to some other supported time source You can also specify a time offset to be applied on the time stamp of each frame Watchdog Here you can specify a timeout value in seconds When the specified length of time elapses without a new frame being sent by the grabber a yellow warning sign will be shown in the display area For example this can be useful if you want to get a visual notification when a camera has been disconnected StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 40 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com The Display tab bag in Single Displ
105. g the cursor to the right will gradually increase forward playback speed moving it to the left will increase backward playback speed and leaving it in the middle will pause the playback Speeds can also be selected from a_ drop down list set in the StreamPix Settings gt Playback page Manual Playback controls must be enabled from the StreamPix Settings gt Playback page to be shown Display Data This status bar mostly shows information about the the current sequence the frame rate of the Live feed the buffer usage of the grabber For the buffer usage three values are shown the current buffer usage the peak buffer usage for the current session and the total number of buffers available Which information to display and when to display it live playback or both can be set from StreamPix Settings gt Displayed Data The Workspace tabs The picture in the ribbon interface overview shows 4 workspace tabs each holding a button allowing to display the Live If sequences are loaded additional buttons will be shown there Each workspace also has its own section in the docking panel Right click on a tab to rename the associated workspace Displays Use the display buttons to switch from a display to another in the workspace ex from Live feed to sequence file StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 16 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Display Area The display area is the section
106. he mouse wheel to zoom in out in 5 increment ne position H You can also use the QuickZoom feature by holding the Ctrl key while using the mouse The QuickZoom feature is described in the StreamPix Settings gt Interface section Selection Selections are used to select the section of a sequence that is to be exported when the Export gt Current Selection command is used All selection buttons are made available when a sequence is loaded in the active workspace Set First The current image will be marked as the selection start and will also indicate the first image to be exported when using Export gt Current Sequence Set Last The current image will be marked as the selection end and will also indicate the last image to be exported when using Export gt Current Sequence Goto first This moves the sequence cursor to the selection start Goto last This moves the sequence cursor to the selection end Clear Selection This clear the selection Streaming Settings Displays the StreamPix Settings dialog Review the StreamPix Settings section for the details StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 34 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com a Home Workspace Camera Display Bayer Colors Markers Sequence Tools Help P e D pa increment 1 Save 1 frame even d Master Workspace i Seiad amp Ta faye See i EJ ees customtoken Wh Eed i Previous M Close Working Recordi
107. he small circles at each extremities At any time double clicking on any part of the image will move the handles near the mouse pointer The precise start and end points of the line are in the exact middle of each handle StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 137 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Configurations Settings tab This tab allows to switch between various configurations i e calibrations Point To Point Caliper Measure Calibrate Overlay Settings Configurations Double ck on a configuration to load it Zoom 100x Zoom 10x Zoom 5x selected configuration Delete selected Save current settings to the configuration To create a new configuration first define a calibration in the Calibrate tab Then click on Save current settings to a new configuration The module will prompt for a name which will then be shown in the list of available configuration Repeat for as many configurations as needed Once you have created all the different configuration you can switch from one to another on the fly by double clicking on the required configuration from the list You can also overwrite an existing configuration with Save current settings to the selected configuration Finally delete unneeded configuration with Delete
108. ht 7 Full Image Keep Aspect Ratio The module needs to be loaded into a separate Source ROI a workspace since it produces a different image ees Ores MER E stream It can be used while recording image or i iis Apply during live display I8f you want to crop or resize an Destination Size sequence already captured rather use the Batch geen 640 SizeY 480 Start Processor utility Source Enter the workspace name from the corresponding video stream you want to resize Interpolation Select the interpolation scheme to use when resizing Schemes are sorted by inverted speed and quality Nearest Neighbor is the fastest algorithm lowest quality Full Image Check if you want to resize the complete source image Keep aspect ratio Check if you want the maintain the original image aspect ratio Source ROI The Full Image box must be unchecked to define a Source ROI This can be used to crop an original image Destination Size Allows to set the destination images size The Apply button instantly apply the ROI changes to the destination resized images The Start button enable the resizing process Note that when resizing a raw Bayer image the Bayer interpolation will be applied before the resizing to make sure the bayer pattern is not damaged during the resizing process Also the image will be converter to color BGR 24 bit Bayer settings are applied according the current workspace settings Simply click Start Stop button to get the
109. ice driver General Settings Audio Tile Device IDDIE Output _hannel Lef Channel 0 e Channel selection Limited to mono left mono right O Right Channel 13 and stereo O ShereuiChenniel O Owen 1 StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 153 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com Output Tab with an MME DirectX device driver This tab is informal only General Settings Audio File Device Input Output Infomation Device Tab using an ASIO device driver General Settings Audio File Device Input Output e M Audio USB 2 0 4510 wi Mame Sample Rate Input Tab using an ASIO device driver General Settings Audio File Device Input output e Input channel v Analog In 1 Fast Track Ultra Analog In 2 Fast Track Ultra Analog In 3 Fast Track Ultra Analog In 4 Fast Track Ultra Analog In 5 Fast Track Ultra Analog In 6 Fast Track Ultra S PDIF In L Fast Track Ultra S PDIF In R Fast Track Ultra StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com It displays various information about current output audio formats Device name Select an audio device that includes ASIO device driver support Note that a specific ASIO driver must have been installed on the computer Sample Rate Select input and output audio sample rates ASIO driver input and output channels require you to have the same sample rate Input channel All the possible input channels of the d
110. ific day of the month ex 4th On a relative day of the month ex second tuesday Monthly Start 5 10 2012 Recur Day 5 10 2012 Start 5 10 2012 Recur every 1 Start 5 10 2012 E Recurevery 1 weeks on Le 10 43 07 AM Second Third Fourth Last StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 51 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Load Save Configuration All StreamPix settings are saved in the Windows registry Saving a configuration will create a registry file reg that will hold all current content of the StreamPix registry branch This option can be used to save a specific setup that needs to be reused later or to alternate between different setups Reloading a configuration will require to restart StreamPix Administrator privileges are required as Windows will ask for permission to write the file content to the registry Reload Saved Scripts The loads the most recently saved scripts from the registry if any Save Current Scripts Saves the current scripts including any modification to the scripts made from Edit StreamPix Scripts The saved script can then be reloaded from Reload Saved Scripts or using the Tools gt StreamPix Settings gt Session gt Reload Scripts option Performance This will show an estimate of the RAM and bandwidth currently used by StreamPix global and by workspaces Disk Benchmarking Use this to
111. ile Speed m s 16 84 Time Wed Oct 27 18 42 02 Bearing 120 47 Since NMEA compatible GPS usually deliver a new message every second this information is refreshed every second As a consequence all frames received between 2 messages will be stamped with the same and constant information The Save GPS data to file can be used during recording It will create a comma separated text file that stores the selected GPS information along with the index of each image The file is created in the same folder as the recorded sequence AVI MOV or image files and is using the recorded file name with a _gps txt extension If the destination media for recording is RAM rather than disk the file is created in the working folder and is called RAM sequence_gps ixt If a File Name Padding value is specified in the StreamPix Settings gt More gt Images page then that padding will be applied to the image index in the GPS text file The GPS data can be burnt on each image or simply be overlaid no damage to the image data You can specify the font type size position and location in the image GPS Positioning Main Font Position Device Setup Font Terminal d Change Background Color size 10 Change Font Color Position Mal nu ue Custom lw Jc JL emile SE D The GPS device can be connected via a USB or a COM port For the COM port connection the user can specify the COM port baud rate and GPS
112. ill be replaced by the related time parts extracted from the timestamp of the current image Mostly used for image files they can also be used when creating sequences AVI and MOV In that case the current system time will be used LTC This token will be replaced by the LTC time code in the image if any index This token will be replaced by the image index in the sequence when exporting from sequence to image files pindex Same as the index token but the value will be padded using the padding specified in the Images settings page StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 63 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com firstframetime This token is mostly used when working with RAM sequences that get saved to disk or exported The token will be replaced with the time of the first frame of the sequence sourcepath The path of the source file sourcename The name of the source file without the extension AB Put A and B in alternance Mostly used with PIV style acquisition As two sequences can not be saved in the same file make sure that every sequence created will have a unique name With successive recordings using the time token will prevent the same filename overwriting problem A good scheme could be workingfolder workspace date at time as this could generate a sequence filename like this one C Camera 1 12 31 05 at 23 59 59 999 seq This means that a folder
113. ime the event is detected StreamPix will send a debug output to the system These outputs can be displayed using Tools gt Debug Log Use it with the Line Testing action to check that the lines are working properly Click on the Delete button to remove an existing action from the list Click on Cancel to abort action editing Click on OK to accept changes made to an existing action or create a new action Pre Post Trigger docked dialog This allows you to set custom a pre post for an individual workspace The behaviour is identical to the one in the Pre Post Trigger page in the StreamPix Settings section Pre Post Trigger click to collapse Pre Post Trigger click to collapse Evert Betore After Before Event After Automatic Rear E EE L Automatic Frearm Use time mode Use frame mode Time controlled 55 MS Frame controlled MM Before jo jo o Before 100 frames te ae Tee m KA StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 61 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com StreamPix settings Auto Naming Settings Bayer Color Auto naming for RECORDING movie files Displayed Data E Scheme workingfolder workspace increment Edit Reset Interface Playback Playback Rate Pre Post Trigger Recording Append an image index to the base file name Auto naming for RECORDING image files Scheme workingfolder workspace in
114. imum is an array of 4x4 Column 3 Row f Merge On Keep input Format by default output image Camera format will be BGR User can check this CAM4 option to force output image format to be the CAM3 same as the source format CAM Camera list enter the different workspace name where are the source video stream Sequence Video Merge The quadrants are populated based on the Ouput Format Sequence file format SEQ Export index order from top left to bottom right Merge On Enable Disable the merge processing The module can also be used to merge together pre recorded sequences The result is then exported to various output format such as SEQ AVI series of images StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 123 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Kinect The Kinect for Windows sensor includes cameras that deliver depth information color data and skeleton tracking data The Kinect module is designed for Kinect for Windows devices Kinect for XBOX360 devices are not supported and renders depth video and skeleton data presenting the result as image overlay It can be configured to trigger various actions in StreamPix based on data received from the Depth stream Monitored Events xea On Skeleton Detected gt Start Recording i PEE E New Insert On Skeleton Lost gt Stop Recording Overlay Position Bottom Right ai Font When you
115. ine Scan Viewer This module has been designed to display and export to various format images from a line scan source Contrary to area scan sources line scan sources deliver a single line of pixels Viewing a single line image where the line is replaced at a high rate is too challenging and of little interest The Line scan display module allows a waterfall like display where new lines to be displayed are appended to the previously displayed ones Older lines eventually get removed Line scan cameras are used to capture web type data and can be seen as one dimension devices delivering one dimension images The typical output of these cameras implements displaying multiple lines at the same time so that the viewer can picture what is happening under the camera Also line scrolling is required as the older scanned lines need to be discarded to make room for the newer ones some line scan camera devices or frame grabbers can eventually combine a set of lines together to build a kind of area scan line image The line scan viewer module can also accommodate those devices and still present a waterfall like image display Page size and image size For line scan cameras we define a page as the number of lines delivered by the camera within a single image So a page is basically equivalent to an image Except that the viewer will combine multiple pages to generate an image for display Usually the page size is 1 line However the line rate can be ver
116. initiated StreamPix will sum the two durations and factor in the current capture fps of the grabber to compute the maximum number of frames in the sequence When the maximum number of frames is reached the recording will continue from the beginning overwriting the oldest images In frame controlled mode specify how many frames must be kept before the event and how many after StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 83 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com When the Pre Post event is triggered either from an IO action see IO Manager docked dialog or from the Trigger Pre Post Event command StreamPix will continue recording for the after duration and stop automatically once that preset time has elapsed The resulting sequence will include what happened before and after the event When the Pre Post event occurs the next frame to be captured will be marked as the reference frame This means that when browsing the sequence and displaying the time stamps as relative instead of absolute each frame s time will be relative to that reference frame instead of the first frame of the sequence Since the frame Event will be marked as time O frames captured before it will present a negative time and those captured after will be identified by a positive time If the Automatic Rearm option is checked the current target file the sequence file will automatically be saved and closed before StreamPix rest
117. ipaged fits A full Multipaged i l sequence of images is stored as a Flexible Image Same remarks as for non multipaged single file The file contains multiple Transport fits headers and data tables one per System fits Portable Network Graphics png Similar to gif format Excellent compression without any loss of quality Compression algorithm is CPU intensive resulting in longer export times than with any other format Supports 8 bit mono and 24 bit color images only resulting in StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 22 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com a loss of information for images using higher bit depth Movie Clip avi Wide range of codec available according to the specific needs some trial and error needed to find the right codec for a specific use The relevant codec needs to be installed on all systems that will be used for playback Except for the uncompressed AVI which come bundled with Windows The supported image format varies from one codec to another Quicktime Movie mov Requires Quicktime Player to be installed on the computer Various codecs available Only works on Windows 32 bit Some codecs might not be supported under Windows Some codecs might not work or offer reduced functionnalities without a 3rd party license StreamPix5 Copyrigh
118. ith time and at users requests Here is the synthax for messages currently supported by StreamPix 5 SendRM exe StreamPix 5 WM CLOSE SendRM exe StreamPix 5 STREAMPIX_MESSAGE_ START RECORDING SendRM exe StreamPix 5 STREAMPIX_MESSAGE_STOP_RECORDING SendRM exe StreamPix 5 STREAMPIX_MESSAGE_SNAP_FRAME SendRM exe StreamPix 5 STREAMPIX_MESSAGE_ SAVE AND CLOSE SendRM exe StreamPix 5 STREAMPIX_MESSAGE_TARGET FORMAT You can call SendRM directly from the command line the Run prompt the Windows Scheduler etc Of course StreamPix must be running at the time the messages are sent Here is some C Win32 code in case you want send messages directly from you application HWND targetWindow FindWindow NULL _T StreamPix 5 if targetWindow For STREAMPIX_MESSAGE_XXX UINT registeredMessage RegisterWindowMessage T STREAMPIX MESSAGE XXX SendMessage targetWindow registeredMessage NULL NULL STREAMPIX MESSAGE START RECORDING STREAMPIX_MESSAGE_ STOP RECORDING and STREAMPIX_MESSAGE_ SNAP_FRAME also have an optional argument identifying the target workspace s index For example this command will start the recording in the third workspace SendRM exe StreamPix 5 STREAMPIX_MESSAGE_ START RECORDING 3 StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 183 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com The STREAMPIX_ MESSAGE TARGET FORMAT message require an additionnal parameter
119. ix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Audio Input Output The Audio Input Output Module AIOM allows users to record from single or multiple audio track sources to a wav bwav file format in parallel to the video recording to a StreamPix sequence file Great care has been taken so that the module maintains accurate synchronization between audio and video provided there is sufficient disk bandwidth available to allow recording of both media To access the audio source devices sound card as well for playback the module can either use a MME DirectX or an ASIO driver MME DirectX One stereo or two mono inputs and outputs can be handled Different DirectX devices can be used by separate workspaces ASIO No limit on the possible number of channels However a single ASIO device can be loaded for the whole StreamPix Which driver interface should be selected The MME DirectX driver interface is always available for all Windows compatible audio devices The DX driver is somewhat limited and can support only up to 2 audio channels The ASIO driver typically exists with all professional related audio devices but ASIO4ALL is a hardware independent low latency ASIO driver for WDM audio devices http www asio4all com The ASIO device driver when available is always preferable It allows for better control of all the device properties and can provide better quality data Among the module features we can mention Per workspace implementati
120. ix 5 Tech Support support norpix com stamped with the same and constant information The Save GPS data to file can be used during recording It will create a comma separated text file csv that stores the selected GPS information along with the index of each image The file is created in the same folder as the recorded sequence AVI MOV or image files and uses the recorded file name with a _gps txt extension If the destination media for recording is RAM rather than disk the file is created in the C temp folder and is called RAM sequence_gps txt If a File Name Padding value is specified in the StreamPix settings gt More gt Images page then that padding will be applied to the image index in the GPS text file It is possible to control the Display Mode for the GPS data it can be burned on each image or simply be overlaid no damage to the image data You can specify the font type size position and location in the image via the font and position panel Font and Position Tab GPS Font amp Position Settings User Data DM Font Terminal Y Change Background Color Size 10 z Change Font Color Position galn Im ie w Jee JLE Goals Je Predefined positions are available Eventually you can also select Custom and enter pixel coordinates to set the exact location of the text in the image Various fonts and sizes are available Please note that the font size may look different when u
121. ix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com The following actions can be triggered None testing mode outputs a message in debug log Start Recording starts recording if possible Stop Recording stops recording if possible Pre Post triggers a Pre Post event to be used with the Pre Post module Mark Frame marks current frame Set Reference Time sets current time as reference time Additionally the module provides the ability to display some useful data as image overlay Tracking Skeleton shows current tracking state Color Timestamp shows current Color frame timestamp Depth Timestamp shows current Depth frame timestamp Skeleton Timestamp shows current Skeleton frame timestamp Closest Farthest Depth show the minimum and maximum depth values within a frame for all tracked skeletons For a complete documentation for the Kinect for Windows device please visit http www microsoft com en us kinectforwindows StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 125 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Live Levels amp Sequence Levels The Live Levels histogram monitor every frame captured by the grabber computes their grey level averages and plots them in real time The radio boxes enable selection of the display method for the histogram Show here will set the graphic in the docked dialog and Show in a Display will show it in a new display in the Workspace ta
122. ixel is filtered to record only one of three colors two thirds of the color data is missing from each To obtain a full color image various demosaicing algorithms can be used to interpolate a set of complete red green and blue values for each pixel Different algorithms requiring various amounts of computing power result in final images of varying quality StreamPix includes Bayer conversion functionality as well as strong color balancing and grading Color balance can independently be applied to any supported image format i e raw images color YUV or RGB Changes to the color balance saturation and contrast plus specific adjustments to shadows and highlights can all be performed using those various tools Since a raw image contains all of the color information StreamPix typically records images from such Cameras as raw data Bayer conversion and color grading is performed only when needed namely when an image is being displayed exported to an AVI movie or exported to an individual image file This has two advantages raw image size is 3 times smaller than color images and CPU resources are conserved Bayer rendering and color grading are quite computation intensive For details about Bayer rendering color correction or grading please refer to the StreamPix settings gt Bayer Color 67 section StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 26 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com HOW TO
123. kspaces Ctrl A Toggle Multi Display Ctrl M Next Workspace Ctrl Tab Toggle Recording Ctrl R Snap a single frame Ctrl Space Reset Zoom level numpad Zoom in numpad Zoom in X axis only Ctrl numpad Zoom in Y axis only Alt numpad Zoom out numpad Zoom out X axis only Ctrl numpad Zoom out Y axis only Alt numpad Trigger Pre Post event Ctrl P Show Hide docking panel Alt P Show Window Task Manager Ctrl Alt T Help F1 StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 15 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com The Sequence slider The sequence slider monitors the state of a sequence playback its cursor indicating the image currently shown in the playback display The cursor can be dragged to jump to any frames of the sequence A red triangle appears under the slider to show where the next captured image will be stored in the sequence which is normally at its end The sequence slider is only used when working with sequence files seg and AVI files avi It has no use with quicktime movie mov or images files bomp jpeg etc The sequence slider can be placed at the top or bottom of the windows from StreamPix Settings gt Interface The Manual playback controls The manual playback controls allows review the current sequence AVI at a fixed frame rate without regard to the timestamps of each image Movin
124. l simply stop when the given number of frames is reached StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 27 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Ribbon Reference The Application Menu 4l di Current workspace Camera 1 Current workspace Camera 1 E New Sequence on Disk E In All Workspaces New Sequence on Disk New Sequence in RAM In All Workspaces New Sequence in RAM S New AVI Select All Workspaces gt In All Workspaces New AVI CH New Quicktime movie CH In All Workspaces New Quicktime movie ca New Image Sequence j aa In All Workspaces New Image Sequence d i Ope p dai Open b Led Save amp Close Sequence bed In All Workspaces Save amp Close Sequence 2 Export Current Image ta In All Workspaces Export Current Image to P CH Export Selection to p i In All Workspaces Export Selection to p C Export Full Sequence ta p i In All Workspaces Export Full Sequence ta Ap Settings 8 exit A Settings 18 Exit SECH L Asa i Reese New Sequence on Disk This creates a new sequence on disk By default the sequences on disk are not compressed and the frames are saved directly as they are received from the camera This may require special configurations for high frame rates or simultaneous use of multiple cameras RAID etc New Sequence in RAM This creates a new sequence in RAM Useful for short sequences with fa
125. lculated and saved to an XML file That LUT is by recalculated each time StreamPix is restarted To avoid the recalculation on start up select Reload look up table from file Color Balance White Balancing Parameters related to the color balance also referred as white balancing can also be adjusted Color balance algorithms can be applied in conjunction with the Bayer rendering It can also be applied on any color captured images RGB or YUV format All the color balance method can be applied for real time live display as well as when exporting Color balance is the adjustment of the RGB channels intensity of an image to match the color temperature of the illumination present at capture time As it changes the overall mixture of colors in an image color balance is used for generalized color correction Color balancing parameters can be adjusted manually or automatically calculated In Automatic mode seven color balancing algorithms can be selected e Mean equalization calculates the mean value of each channel and then adjusts each so that the mean value of the blue and red channels are equal to the green channel e Gray world the sum of the red green and blue channels is calculated and then adjusted so that the sum of the blue and red channel equals the green channel e Standard deviation calculates the standard deviation of each color channel and then re adjusts each to be 70 on a 256 value scale e Mean amp standard deviati
126. like an initial time stamp and LTC Multiple bwave format When pausing during recording audio will need to be resynchronized with video upon resumption of recording The is done by using separate bwav files for each recording section Each bwave file contains meta data that link the files together for accurate synchronization during playback StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 152 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Audio File Tab This tab contains only informative information about the audio data that will be stored in the file General Settings Audio File Device Input Output The information is dependent on some other parameters like the functionality available with the audio device in use Infomation FileName Cameral waw Encoding Sample Rate 4 100KHz Bit per sample 16 Channel Device Tab using a MME DirectX device driver General Settings Audio File Device Input Output I l TE Input device name Select the audio device you EE Realtek AC Audio a want to work with for your audio source The selected device may only be used in a single Sample Rate 11 025 kHz we workspace Bit per Sample Input Sample rate Set the audio sampling rate Output ame Input Bit per sample 8 16bit e Output device Select the output device you want to work with Input and output devices can be different Input Tab using a MME DirectX dev
127. load the module you can see the following v Red green blue RGB color image from the Kinect sensor if the color stream is selected in current workspace v Background in gray scale and different people in different colors if the depth stream is selected in current workspace Darker colors indicate objects that are farther from the camera v Tracked skeletons of up to two people who have been detected within the frame If moving figures are too close to the camera unreliable or odd images might appear in the skeleton and depth views The optimal range is 2 6 to 13 12 feet 0 8 to 4 meters The module detects people only if the entire body fits within the captured frame Note Enabling any image processing on a Depth stream image will alter depth information as each pixel within the image contains depth data The folowing events can be detected on the color stream On Skeleton Detected when Kinect starts tracking at least one skeleton On Skeleton Lost when Kinect stops tracking all skeletons The folowing events can be detected on the depth stream On Skeleton Detected when Kinect starts tracking at least one skeleton On Skeleton Lost when Kinect stops tracking all skeletons On Distance Closer Than when depth is less than a certain value On Distance Farther Than when depth is greater than a certain value On Distance Within when depth is within a certain range StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 124 187 Norp
128. lso be done from the sequence docked dialog Goto Next Marker Move the playback position to the next marker relative to the current playback position Browsing markers can also be done from the sequence docked dialog Goto Reference Frame Move the playback position to the reference frame The sequence s reference frame can be set by various actions such as the Trigger pre post event command Add Marker at Current Recording Position This will add an event marker on the last frame captured This command is typically used to mark a frame while a recording is taking place A blue arrow will be displayed on the sequence bar to show the locations of the marked frames You can use the event markers viewer in the sequence docked dialog to manage or quickly browse the marked frames Add Marker at Current Playback Position This will add an event marker on the frame at the current playback position This command is typically used to mark a frame while reviewing a recorded sequence A blue arrow will be displayed on the sequence bar to show the locations of the marked frames You can use the event markers viewer in the sequence docked dialog to manage or quickly browse the marked frames Move Reference Frame to Current Recording Position This will set the current recording position as the reference frame The reference frame s time stamp is used to deduce the relative time of every other images By default the first frame of a Sequence is Stream
129. mPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 43 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Sample Factor Only affect bayer conversion done on displayed frames Choosing 1 2 1 4 and 1 8 will reduce the CPU usage required for the display at the expense of a smaller rendered image Recalculate Balance Recalculate the Color Balance based on the next frame that will be processed using the color balance algorithm Individual Settings Not available in the Single Camera version It is possible to customize for each separate workspace individual parameters for both the Bayer color interpolation as well as for the color correction The settings are identical as for the general settings except that they are applied only for the current workspace When using Custom Bayer and Color Correction settings one has to setup those settings for each workspace StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 44 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com The Markers tab Home Workspace Camera Display Bayer Colors Markers Tools Help vra d gt gt F P Previous Mext Reference Current Recording Current Playback Current Recording Current Playback Marker Marker Frame Position Position Position Position Goto Add Marker at Move Reference Frame to Goto Previous Marker Move the playback position to the previous marker relative to the current playback position Browsing markers can a
130. made by StreamPix Loop Recording This command will loop the current sequence i e The next saved frame will overwrite the first frame of the sequence and recording will continue from there New Sequence Close the current sequence and create a new one based on the settings in StreamPix Settings gt Auto Naming New AVI Close the current sequence and create a new AVI file based on the settings in StreamPix Settings gt Auto Naming New Images Close the current sequence and create a new image sequence based on the settings in StreamPix Settings gt Auto Naming Wait For Query This will stall the execution of the script until a new query is made by StreamPix Call Sub Step Will create a new sub step which will be ran Once the sub step completes execution of the script will resume Execute Will run a shell command line instruction of your choice After the Last Command Once the last command of a step as been processed you can define what will happen using this section Restart immediately Will immediately continue running the step from it s first command Restart every X frames The step will loop every X frames acquired Restart at specified interval The step will loop at the specified time interval Stop Condition s A step will continue running indefinitely until one of its stop condition occurs Every step will also stop when the recording stops ex the user click on the record button a second time
131. me For example markers for c folder test seq will be in c folder test xml I O Manager docked dialog IO Manager click to collapse Input Control Double click on desired action NI DAQ gt DIO O gt Rising Edge gt Start Recording gt Self NI DAQ gt DIO 0 gt Falling Edge gt Stop Recording gt Self Add new event Input Action Device U L mne keu A Polling delay in milliseconds 100 Event Rising Edge Acton Start Recording Target self Event Nam Log Action Powe This docked dialog shows information related to the Inputs Outputs actions To create a new action double click on the Add new event line To edit or delete an existing action double click on the line describing that action In both cases the Input Action dialog will be shown This dialog will display the settings of a new or existing action There are several parameters to set Source All IO devices detected by StreamPix are shown in this list A source can either be related to the grabber i e frame grabber with input lines or an external IO device Line Key All available lines for the selected source are shown Select the input line to monitor Polling delay This is the interval at which the input line will get polled If the value is too low non stop polling will be implemented needlessly consuming the system s resources However a very high value might miss an event For instance if the input signal goe
132. med and applied in place to the images received from the grabber device A rolling average is performed over the specific number of frames received last The input and output frame rate are identical When the module is loaded into a separate workspace than the grabber device the operating mode can either be a rolling average or a standard frame averaging In standard frame averaging mode the output frame rate is the input rate divided by the number of frames to be averaged Image Rolling Averaging Workspace The workspace of the See E video source or grabber device from Workspace Camerat v Mode Roling where the image will be processed Number of frame to average amp Clear Buffers Number of frames to average The depth size for the averaging calculation Mode The available mode are automatically determined by the module depending on its loading context Clear Buffers Empty the average buffer Any accumulated frames are lost During rolling average output frames are unchanged until the module until the average buffer is filled StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 120 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Image Resize And Crop The Image Resize And Crop module provides the ability to resize or crop the images from a camera to any desired size This module is not supported when running StreamPix single camera version Source No selected Interpolation Nearest Neig
133. mmand from the list will show the command description along with the parameters required by the command Once a command is selected Clicking on Create Selected command will alow to allocate This allows to select the variables included in a command showing a description of the parameter in the dialog title and a list of the variables compatible with it Selecting a variable will also display a description of its contents The Local Variables tab will display the list of compatible variables local to the event which are only accessible while the event is being executed Clicking on the Global Variables will display variables that are always available regardless of what event is being called see following dialog Finally the User creates Variables panel is used to create your own variable for example a constant for a function that require a numerical value Like SscriptControl s Sleep command StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 55 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Select The condition to check Local Variables Global Variables Workspace Default D Module StreampisCore M Variables in this module Variable description CVarBool True if the module Is recording This dialog works in the same way as the Local Variables tab displaying the compatible variables available on a global scale and not only for a specific event The Workspace and Module drop
134. mporary workspaces This option allows you to open multiple sequence files at once Each sequence will be loaded in a temporary workspace Open AVI This option will open an existing AVI file in playback mode Recording can t be done in aAVI in playback mode AVI files that were not created by StreamPix might or might not play Clicking Play after an AVI has been recorded will save amp close the AVI then will reopen it for playback Save amp Close This closes the active sequence movie or image sequence RAM sequences are discarded when closed As such saving a RAM sequence is done by exporting it to a file on disk prior to closing it There is also an option in StreamPix Settings gt Sequence to prompt to save a RAM sequence upon closing it Export While the seg file format is very convenient within the StreamPix application it is not widely supported by 3rd party software and often needs to be converted to a more common format Once the sequence is loaded it can be exported to AVI movies separate tif images or any other standard file format See the section Choosing an export format for more detailed information Note that sequence files and AVI files are the only exportable formats StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 29 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com The File formats available for export are as follows Sequence file format seq Movie Clip avi Quicktime Mo
135. n be done by moving the sequence slider The sequence can also be reviewed at a fixed frame rate by using the manual playback controls The following playback commands are available from the Home tab Play Pause which will playback following the time stamps Step Back Step Forward First Frame and Last Frame StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 24 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Controlling multiple cameras Ce Is StreamPix 5 e ST be Home Workspaces Camera Display _ Bayer Colors Sequence Tools Help Style v V LIVE W 8 4 gt o o Show Docking Pe Panel Define ROI ge m e Goto First M workspaces P Bayer amp Color d i l WR Hardware Properties d Multi Display Mode Scroll image Goto End S Camera j Sequence Tools 3 ICC Record Snap First ep Play Paus ep 7 Set Set S i StreamPix 45 Live Adjustments Frame SC Forward ls ame Select All Workspaces Zoom image First Last Clear Selection Mi Display v z Help Settings Camera Recording Playback ER GUI Mouse dragging Selection Shortcuts C CH ges k amera Go al Camera aay GC eet Een A S Ed Norpix Virtual Grabber Camera 1 FPS 31 Buffers 1 1 5 RecPos 1 Camera 2 FPS 31 Buffers 1 1 5 RecPos 4 CH Acquisition Speed fps 31 gt gt Buffers 1 5 Peak Buffer Usage 1 RAM Sequence External Modules Norpix Virtual Grabber Acquisition Speed fps
136. n parameters By clicking the Settings the user interface expand to get you access to more registration parameters Registration Mirror Mode Horizontal V Rotation W Overlay Cente Sy Rotation Center x 1 Center 4 Ange 0 0 z Algorithms Nearest Neigt L Smooth Image Align Offsizex Offsize 0 e Mirror will allow second source to be either vertically or horizontally mirrored e Rotation will allow for optical geometric correction The center of the rotation point can be overlay into the merge image to allow better tune up Center point color can be selected by double clicking the color pad e Alignment second source image can be horizontally or vertically offset Using the module in image division mode When running with image division mode the following calculation are performed SimulPix Image cameral background registration correction Image camera2 background Background images can be acquired any time by enabling and clicking the corresponding button Background images are saved to disk and are always used when Apply is checked SimulPix includes an extra setting tab that allows the selection of various pseudo coloring display to allow better representing the calculation result StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 180 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com SimulPix Framerate 0 00 Result image can be pseudo colored with
137. n the image orientation Several timestamp display schemes are available Also time can be overlayed as absolute or relative to the first captured page Eventually you can also overlay the page index Font amp Position tab This allows customization of the timestamp overlay position font text size color and background color Export tab Exporting line scan pages can be done via the regular StreamPix export command However the module can be used to export the waterfall like display images General Font amp Position Export Number of lines Export O Same as display d F Selection Selection w Start 10 End 20 v ke Format Export tg BMP Consecutive lines in a page can be exported as an area scan like image Set the number of lines to the desired size of the image to be either identical to the display area or to your own choice Supported export formats can be one of the following BMP JPG TIFF PNG FIT JP2 DPX for still images or AVI MOV 32 bit only and SEQ for movie like rendering When exporting to a movie format a custom frame rate can be set By default frame rate of the original sequence will be applied StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 171 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com MCC Pulse Generator The MCC Pulse Generator module
138. ncompatible with the camera the driver could produce an error and might even crash StreamPix Disabling Live startup allows to access the hardware properties and select the appropriate configuration files before launching the camera streaming Don t load a grabber Once loaded the grabber will automatically start capturing images except if the camera is in a triggered mode or if Scroll Lock is enabled To toggle the Live feed on or off use the LIVE checkbox in the Home tab it might be useful to free some CPU load for other processes StreamPix was built to support a wide variety of grabbers and as many grabbers have special properties and settings that are unique to them it easily allows to adjust the settings of the loaded grabber by accessing them using the Hardware Properties or Live Adjustments buttons from the Home or Camera tabs StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 20 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Selecting destination file s Before starting a recording the destination where the captured images will be stored needs to be specified StreamPix offer several possible destinations sequence files on disk or in RAM image files bomp tiff joeg etc and movie files avi amp quicktime Sequence Files are files with the seg extension a NorPix proprietary format This is the native format of StreamPix and the preferred format The number of images it can hold is
139. ng Workspace Workspace e if Advanced Workspace Current Folder Manager Color Settings i Edit Default Token EN Workspace Control Manager Workspace Control Customized Workspace Auto Naming Tokens Recording Rate synchronization Options Previous Workspace Not available in the Single Camera version Sets the previous workspace in the workspace list as current active Next Workspace Not available in the Single Camera version Sets the next workspace in the workspace list as current active Close Current Workspace Not available in the Single Camera version Closes the current workspace This can also be achieved by clicking on the X button in the workspace tab Working Folder Not available in the Single Camera version Changes the default folder used by the current workspace This folder will become the default folder used for saving files created by this workspace and can also be used for file auto naming see StreamPix Settings gt Workspace s Recording Manager Not available in the Single Camera version When using a record manager It is possible to customize for each separate workspace what will be the recording manager in usage e Use the default manager e Use a custom manager so that workspace behave individually StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 35 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com e The default recording manager is defined in StreamPix Setting
140. nge Display Color for 1 transparency color in the bitmap will be displayed a E e alela in the captured image Change Display Color for Binary bitmap Set display color for binary bitmap Position Select a position to overlay the bitmap on the captured image StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 109 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Crosshair Module The crosshair module allows to burn a crosshair on your images Crosshair Draw Crosshair Crosshair ZE e 63 A e elei C At grab level x Y Color On displayed frames 1 Loch Position C Always Centered Onexported frames cze 10 l Thickness 1 Coordinates Font Terminal os Jam 7 Broadcast crosshair s position changes to other workspaces Draw Crosshair This section is used to determine when the crosshair burning is taking place When done At grab level the crosshair will be written on the images as soon as they are received from the camera On displayed frames will show the crosshair on image received from the camera but after any saving process occured It will also show a crosshair on images read from a sequence file Finally On exported frames will apply the crosshair to any images exported from a sequence regardless of the destination format seq avi bmp jpg etc Crosshair Pos show the current X and Y pixel coordinates of the cros
141. not show the same display at the same StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 25 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Bayer conversion color correction and grading Bayer conversion is the process by which raw images from a Bayer camera are color converted using a Bayer interpolation algorithm Some cameras equipped with a Bayer filter will perform the color interpolation process before images are sent to output However most cameras do not do this leaving interpolation to applications like StreamPix A Bayer filter mosaic is a color filter array for arranging RGB color filters on a square grid of photo sensors The term derives from the name of its inventor Dr Bryce E Bayer of Eastman Kodak and refers to a particular arrangement of color filters used in most single chip digital image sensors used in digital cameras camcorders and scanners to create a color image The filter pattern is 50 green 25 red and 25 blue and hence is also called BGGR GBRG GRBG or RGGB depending on the color of the first pixel in a 2x2 pixel square Bryce Bayer s patent called the green photo sensors uminance sensitive elements and the red and blue ones chrominance sensitive elements He used twice as many green elements as red or blue to mimic the human eye s greater resolving power with green light The raw output of Bayer filter cameras is referred to as a Bayer pattern image Since each p
142. ntrol Forced frame rate value Sort frames before exporting Use nearest frame for goto and synch Open exported sequences in a temp workspace 30 Disabled Disabled Disabled RAM Sequence Session When closing a RAM sequence Discard sequence Pre Allocated RAM frames D Stop isa if GE RAM lt SE 100 Timeshifting Workspace s More No Compression raw JPEG 4 100 Fast compression using IPP Disabled lise fied imane size Ne WARNING Some image formats may not support all compression modes Compressing increases CPU usage and could E in eech frame drop Consider using compression for archiving exportin General Force frame rate Overwrite the calculated frame rate of recorded sequence by a fixed value Force frame rate value the fps value used if Force frame rate is enabled Sort frames before exporting if you do loop recording or use the pre post trigger you might want to enable this This will make sure that the frames in the sequence will be exported in their chronological order This is especialy important when exporting to AVI or MOV Use nearest frame for goto and synch When disabled default use the last frame to have been captured at the requested time Enabling it will seek the closest frame in time Open exported sequences in a temp workspace If you want to automatically open sequences exported in a new temporary workspace for immediate
143. nts e A software module for StreamPix e An electronic counter device usually plugged in to the image recording computer e Sync box that allows connecting various input and output signals together e A Pulse Distance Interval signal usually provided by a DMI device or wheel motion encoder not provided A NMEA compatible GPS device not provided e One or multiple cameras for image capture DMI Sync Box The DMI module requires the usage of some internal electronic counter devices directly plugged into the computer Supported devices are the Measurement and Computing 4301LS the National Instruments NI6601 or NI6320 devices which include some counters and IO control The sync box needs to be connected to the host computer via the provided cable The box includes also some output Hirose 4 pin output connector to power the cameras and forward the sync exposure pulses to each camera DMI sync box also includes 2 BNC connectors DMI Input That connector must receive the PDI signal from the wheel encoder The PDI signal must be a TTL 0 5V square wave signal Pulse rates depend on the motion speed of the vehicle Camera Sync Output That auxiliary output can be used as a repeater signal to provide a similar pulse that is used to trigger the cameras DMI sync Box also include LEDs that can be used as tools for testing the behavior of the device e Green PC Link LED When on that indicates the sync box receives appropriate power from th
144. ntur ar ar AEn EER EEEE CEE CEEREER EEEE EE EEEE EnEn nEn Ene 28 EN A E A E A 28 New ANVA cece ccc eccecececcececeecececeeeeaececeeaececeeaeaececeaececueaeaeseceeaececeeneaesecueaeaeseeneaeaesueeaeseeneaeaesestenenseneas 28 New Quicktime movie 28 NEMA iech Ier 29 Bleif 29 Reopen Last CNC Le 29 Open Sequence s in temporary wotkenagces 2 cecececceceeeecececeececeeueeececueeecececueaeaesueneaeeesnsaeanees 29 Scat E 29 EE 29 lei EE 29 E EE EE eege 30 SE Weed lte EEN EN SEENEN EN StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 2 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Eege EN The Home e E 32 RV E 32 HORE me 08 9 2 bo ee eee ee ee ene ne ne ee ene ee 32 EVGP26 US E 32 ELELEE WEE 32 e TEE 32 First Frame 32 E e 32 EE ee 32 EE EE 33 geit 33 CROW DOCKA ats EE 33 lg BS 9 Fe 0 E 33 Select EE EE EEN 33 MOUSE Ree Te EE 34 SL 21511 S EE 34 See kl ee Elei E 34 TTS AV OG Ss E 35 FU el 35 4A E T E EE E 35 Glos Cument EE ee EE Els feig nieft le EE Els Recording icles e EE 35 teg ees Lee EE 36 Ate Els Idee EEN 36 ELES LEINA E SE 36 Custom Eeer 36 Edit Default Token 36 Master EE EE E SEERE ATE Eet 3 Customize Workspace Control 38 Viele ee Te E E 38 The Camera Tab 39 Rer 39 BW ie liste te E ene nee er ne et E NE 39 AA E e N eae rm ee eect seers ad eee ec eee 39 Ziler RE 39 PM a Sl EE ee NEE 39 BE eil Sa ee TEETER 39 ATARE be 40 EE LE 40 Buffer EE 40 SHOW lee t
145. o change the order in which commands are called when the event occurs Indent Command Unindent Command If one of the commands is a conditional statement the line s that are indented below it will be called if the parameter becomes true When the parameter is false the script will simply jump to the next unindented line Thus indenting a script command line will make it conditional to its related event Double clicking on a script line will show the current script command and its parameters StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 54 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com Select a command X Workspace Defaut 0 sl StreampisCore zl Commands available from this module Module Command Description Save a frame in the curent sequence Bayer Conversion PARAMETERS CVarlmage The image to save parameters for the command Select The image to save Local Variables Global Variables Local Warables for this event Yarable Description CVarnmage The captured Image Cancel StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com This dialog allows the user to select a command to add to the script of the event selected in the Customize StreamPix dialog Normally the command should only be chosen from the commands availables to a module of the current workspace It is possible to select a command from another workspace altough it will fail if the other workspace is not loaded Selecting a co
146. o create default Sequence file on disk Sequence file op disk No D No No No auto export default No No Keep recording default 0 n Auto create file Tell Stream Pix whether to automatically create files when starting recording snap Created files use the automatic file naming scheme for new files General Auto Create File Define StreamPix s behavior when a recording snap is initiated Never won t do anything special If not current file will automatically create a target file if the workspace hasn t any file opened Always will close the current workspace file if any and create a new target file for the recording The created files are named using the auto naming scheme defined in the Auto Naming settings page Auto created file type on record Set what type of file is created when a recording triggers the auto creation of a target file Auto created file type on snap Set what type of file is created when a snap triggers the auto creation of a target file Use Recording start as reference time By default StreamPix use the first captured frame timestamp as the reference time Checking When a recording starts take the current time as the StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 85 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com sequence s reference time will do exectly that For example this can be useful to get accurate relative times when th
147. of the window in which images are shown The color of the display area can be adjust by using Set Background Color in the Display tab If the used system barely meets the requirements for fast streaming some CPU load can alleviated by using Toggle Display from the Display tab to turn off the display It is also possible to zoom the current display in or out by employing the zoom commads in the Display tab The current zooming values appear in the image status bar Zooming increases CPU load compared to normal image 1 1 rendering Status Icons Those appear in the display area and provide various information i The camera is streaming flawlessly the camera is dropping frames Dothe camera streaming is stopped a Recording Wea sequence view L Playback a This workspace has the focus Interface s commands are applied on it ps Timeshift mode Al the watchdog Camera tab is enabled and its timeout value was reached Master workspace used for synchronized browsing playback st Pre Post Recording mode Waiting for I O trigger StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 17 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Docking panel The large window on right side of the StreamPix window is the Docking Panel It holds the docked dialogs and can be resized by dragging its left border or hidden by unchecking Show Docking Panel in the Home tab Status bar
148. on Forward Backward Rotate degrees Timestamp O Relative Absolute Overlay Scheme OD MM S hh mm ss ms w Show Frame Index playback only Depending on the scan direction of the web in front of the camera adjust image orientation Forward most recent page is added at the end of the current set of lines or Backward most recent page is added at the beginning of current set of lines Depending on camera orientation it is also possible to have the waterfall display vertically 0 or 180 degrees or horizontally 90 or 90 degrees A one page 100 line display of a rotated Pepsi pop can in front of a monochrome linescan sensor Typical view from the camera tab or the sequence tab LineScan D LineScan gt Woreakeane sequences a Garderlinescan File drakaneysequences a Gardernlinescan_ 1024x LineScan LineScan ICH EE LineScan gt Line Scan viewer A waterfall view from the linescan viewer tab vertically or horizontally oriented StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 170 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com The module also includes an option to overlay captured time stamp for each page When displaying an image from the camera source the module will overlay the timestamp of the last page In playback mode 3 timestamps are overlayed The oldest page the middle of the view page and the newest page The overlay position depends o
149. on one audio device per workspace Auto audio file naming and generation while recording audio file is created with the same name as the video sequence file but with the wav extension Uncompressed audio recording The audio stream is captured from any Windows compatible audio device If the audio device includes high quality digitizing options the module will take advantage of those options Synchronization with start stop recording event Synchronous playback with video Automatic integration with file handling commands File Sequence Close will close both video and audio files File Sequence Open will open the sequence file and the corresponding wav file if it exists provided the module is loaded into the workspace All features of the AIOM are grouped within 6 context related tabs Depending on the audio device that is used with the module and the selected driver DX or ASIO tab contents may differ General Tab Pass Through Allows input audio signal to pass directly to the output channel monitoring While recording audio monitoring is turned off with MME Directx StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 151 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com Audio Input Output General Settings Audio File Device Input Output Pass Through Input MuEoue Asio Hardware Settings Settings Tab General Settings Audio File Device Input Output Settings Destination File Same as Workspace Folder k
150. on Slowest adjusts the mean value of each channel to be 128 and sets the standard deviation of each channel to be roughly 70 on a 256 value scale e White World Will search for the whitest area in the image and assume this is real white to recalculate the WB by normalizing each channel and set the maximum value to white To get good result make sure there is no saturated pixels on the image use short exposure time for instance e Scale by max calculates the max value of each channel and then rescale each channel to the maximum dynamic range Mean equalization Gray World Standard Deviation Mean amp Standard Deviation White World and Scale by Max algorithms will use the first incoming image to calculate the balance coefficient This is a one time operation that is not redo for each incoming images One can force a recalculation by StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 68 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com using the shortcut ALT R or press the Recalculate look up table button in the Bayer Color ribbon In manual mode user can enter red green and blue offset values to be applied for each color channel The correction factor will be added or subtract for each pixel intensity The parameter value is in percent of the total dynamic range a 10 will add a constant of 25 grey level for a 8 bit 256 levels image Color Grading Processing Image color grading can either be perform
151. only limited by available disk space sequence files have several advantages The images are stored in their raw format exactly as they were received from the camera incurring no quality loss Sequences can be used for playback in StreamPix StreamPix can export image s from an existing sequence to any other format image files or AVI Each images is timestamped with the precise time at which they were captured This allows accurate playback for sequences captured at variable speeds Sequence files can be post processed with various image processing functions ex applying a bayer conversion and exported to any other format To create a sequence file to disk simply use Application Button gt New Sequence on Disk and choose a name for the sequence and the location to save it To create a sequence file in RAM select Application Button gt New Sequence in RAM RAM sequence are limited in size to the amount of system memory currently available so when the sequences run out of memory the recording automatically stops To create an AVI file use Application Button gt New AVI and select the desired codec from the Save As file dialog To create an Quicktime file StreamPix 32 bit versions only use Application Button gt New Quicktime movie and select the desired codec from the Save As file dialog Finally to capture directly to image files select the desired format in the Application Button gt New Image Sequence sub menu Close
152. ording task er L o When a recording command occur by a default only the currently selected workspace will start recording However if Select all workspace is selected then all workspaces will start recording Last action Recording duration WES Once the recording mode is chosen you can also SS gef either define a recording duration or tell StreamPix Until manually stopped or until a stop condition is reached to keep recording until a stop condition is reached For d Hours 0 Minutes For example most recording scripts offer various stop conditions see StreamPix Settings gt Cancel Recording Rate StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 50 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com One Time Configure a recording session that will occur a single time at the given date and time Daily StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com One Time Configure a recording session that will occur daily The first recording will be done on the given date and repeat every day or every X days at the chosen time Weekly Configure a recording session that will occur weekly One or more days of the week can be selected The recording will then happen every X weeks after the selected date Monthly Configure a recording session that will occur monthly Select one of more months on which recordings have to be made Finally select the repeat mode from the two available options On a spec
153. pace Manager Delete Review the Using Workspace Section for an overview on how to use workspaces StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 38 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com The Camera Tab D ce Ts Buffer Count de zb K es Zog O Show Image WatchDog Select Time Load Unload Reload Hardware Live Advanced Export Se Properties Adjustments Settings Settings or Edit buffer count Information Source Camera Frame Grabber Settings amp Adjustments Buffers Misc Load A list of all supported grabbers is displayed here allowing to select the one to be used You also have the option to reload the camera with its default settings or load custom camera settings from a xml file created from Export Settings Duplicate Camera Stream Not available in the Single Camera version This will show a dialog with every other workspace loaded Select one of the workspace to get a copy of every frame captured by that workspace s camera This can be useful if you want to save a stream to two different formats at the same time Unload Unloads the current grabber or duplicate if any Reload Reload the current grabber Use this after changing the buffer count for a grabber Buffers are allocated when a grabber loads Hardware Properties Settings shown in Hardware Properties require the grabber to stop streaming as they can cause modifications in the image format
154. parameter reloaded StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 121 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Image Rotation This module can be used to rotate the image shown in the display area in real time Pixels in the destination image that do not have any corresponding pixels in the source image are zeroed Rotated pixels that do not fit in the destination image are clipped Because of the nature of the rotation process where image size can be preserved or not a new display area is added by the module to the workspace where it is loaded As a consequence when using the multi display mode in StreamPix 5 both images original and rotated one can be displayed simultaneously Image Rotation The module gives the flexibility to adjust the following Apply On parameters eier egen a X and Y Position of the center of rotation point COR Angle Others e The COR can eventually be defined outside of the image boundary By default COR is the image center Angle 0 0 Smooth Edge point Keep Rotation Image Size Rotation angle from 0 to 360 degrees with decimal o T increments Rotation On Image Center Center E center 0 2 Destination image size The rotated image can keep 3 the same image size as the source or one can specify Interpolation Linear 7 what will be the X and Y size Useful for 90 degree rotation By default image size is identical Interpolation algorithm N
155. pt to the ribbon layout we are confident that they will eventually like the improved ease of use Now let s go over some of the ribbon features First ribbons support styles Le color schemes StreamPix supports the four standard default schemes You can change the current style using the Style button on the top right corner of the StreamPix window Luna Blue Obsidian Black Silver Aqua StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 12 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com n StreamPix 5 x La en oe 7 d Home Workspaces Camera Display Bayer Colors Sequence Tools Help Show Docking Panel E E s Goto Firs Multi Display Mode Scroll image m Goto Enc OD Hd D ID di Step Play Pause Step Last Set Set Record Snap First f Frame Back Forward Frame Select All Workspaces Zoom image First Last Clear Selectior Playback Ia GUI Style v d LIVE Define ROI Workspaces ey Bayer amp Color WS Hardware Properties S Camera 5 Sequence Tools v z Help Shortcuts StreamPix Settings Settings 3 Live Adjustments Display Camera Recording Mouse dragging Selection Next applications using a ribbon interface don t have the standard menus row at the top of the window Instead all commands are layed out in a series of tabs The Home tab shows the most frequently used commands The rest of the commands are in the other tabs Clicking
156. quence on disk RAM to X frames Specify the default number of frames to be captured in a sequence on disk or in RAM Loop recording when limit is reached Define StreamPix behavior when the frame limit is reached If the Loop option is enabled the sequence will continue recording from the start Otherwise the recording will stop when the limit is reached Those settings can be overridden at the workspace level in the Sequence docked dialogs StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 86 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Recording Rate settings streampix Settings Auto Naming Recording Rate AVI Bayer Color While recording Displayed Data Save all frames Interface Playback Save one frame every X frames Recording Rate slider range 1 30 Playback Rate Pre Post Trigger 9 Use a recording script Recording Recording Rate Remote Control Sequence Session Timeshifting Workspace s More x Jl cance While Recording While recording the default behavior is to save every acquired frame to the target file sequence AVI etc However StreamPix offers two addionnal modes The first option is to reduce the recording rate to a factor of the camera acquisition rate The Recording Rate slider in the Workspace tab allows you to set the recording rate for the current workspace or for all workspaces if all workspaces are currently selected You can also
157. r as the default location Pre Post Trigger Recording a Default Read ahead Buffers bulfers IMPORTANT Reload the grabber s to 2 apply the new buffer count Recording Rate Remote Control 3 Sequence Session Note Having enough buffers in the read ahead list ensure that you won t drop frames when the CPU usage peaks However only increase this number if the buffer tray indicator shows that you reach the current value as having too much buffers will only eat up memory Workspace s il More The default Working Folder to use for newly created workspaces can be set here The default for this is C TEMP but can be can be set to any valid path It is also possible to automatically append the workspace s name to the working folder path This make it easy to store files related to each workspaces in their own folder By default file dialogs Save As Open start in the Working Folder It is possible to override this and start in the last used folder instead Uncheck the Save File dialogs use the working folder as the default location to do this Individual workspace may also use a custom working folder by using Select Working Folder in the Workspace tab Finally you can set the default buffer count that will be used by each grabber For example if the camera runs at 30 fps using 150 buffers means that you have a 5 seconds buffer in case the system experience lag at some point StreamPix5 Copy
158. r to use that module the related camera must include an exposure register That register must be accessible from StreamPix Hardware Properties and Adjustments dialog Exposure Time Reader Exposure time values can be displayed on Live Ne ees and or Playback streams with the possibility to d Show overlay Show overlay permanently write the values on the images or v Burn on image Generate cev File store them to a CSV file Log to cs file g Settings Overlay Settings Text overlay settings font position background Custom Text Exposure time ara color are also configurable Font Background Color Note Upon receiving an image from the camera the module will be reading the current Camera exposure value and overwrite the first 4 pixels of the image with the binary coded value of the exposure StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 113 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com File Automatic Deletion The File Automatic Deletion module can be used to automatically delete old files This module is a great tool for unattended systems where disk space must be monitored and maintained properly The module can monitor a predefined computer file folder Two criteria are used to monitor disk space and eventually delete outdated files A maximum number of files can be defined oldest file is deleted A Time out in hour can be defined so that all older files will b
159. ra via serial communication Therefore an ImperX camera must be loaded and the serial communication must be enabled before loading the module into the current workspace Lynx IPX Camera Control Shutter Time u5 D SU Ai Enable Shutter 2040 17 We Gain dB i E om E ii Frogrammable Frame Hate fps LU 2 109 a 210 d Exposure Time Query zz The Lynx IPX Camera Control module interface lets you quickly adjust three of the most important parameters of the camera the Shutter Time also known as exposure time Gain and Frame Rate Optionally the exposure time reader could be used to read the current exposure time value directly from the camera and display it as image overlay Exposure time values can be shown on Live and or Playback streams with the possibility to permanently write the values on the images or store them to a CSV file Live Playback J Show overlay Show overlay Burm on image Generate csv File Logt fil Sera K KEEN lt Settings Overlay Settings Position Custom Text Exposure time e Font Background Color Text overlay settings font position background color are also configurable StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 128 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Matrix Switch The Matrix Switch module allows to program a Smart AVI 4x4 DVI Router device to work on two different modes capture mode gt set video INPUT1 to OU
160. rating mode To record the result image into a sequence make sure to select all workspaces CTRL A and from the file menu select In Every WorkSpace New Sequence Configuring SimulPix Module Select the Operating mode Merge or Division Select the Capture source from cameras or sequence Select the two Workspace source within the Camera area Eventually select the color you want to be applied for each camera Depending on the Color Mode different coloring scheme are available o Monochrome Each camera image is represented with gray levels from back to white Individual image intensities can be adjusted using the sliders o Primary Color Only the basic primary color of the color wheel are available red StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 179 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com green blue and combination of those like magenta cyan and yellow o Any Color Any color can be used more CPU demanding Once those parameters are selected you can turn on the processing by clicking the Live OFF ON button Note that on slow computer since the calculation requires significant CPU the overall computer respond time may become slower If this is the case possible work around are e Reduce image ROI of the process e Reduce camera frame rate e Turn off merge mode when not needed e Disable rotation mode if not needed see below Fine tuning SimulPix registratio
161. record in uncompressed format then later export the sequence to a compressed format for archiving purposes StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 91 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Session settings Streampix Settings Auto Naming AVI Bayer Color Setting eile When StreamPix starts Interface Check for updates Yes Playback Load extemal plugin modules No Pre Post Trigger Load LO device drivers No Recording Reload grabbers Yes Remote Control Reload sequences Yes Sequence Reload saved script No Show Reload Options dialog No Timeshifting Initial window state Maximixed Workspace s More Check for updates Automatically check for software updates once per month Factory Defaults When StreamPix starts Check for updates Automatically check if a new release of StreamPix is available The check is done once per month Load external plugin modules If you don t use any modules skipping loading them will make StreamPix launch faster Load UO device drivers If you don t use the I O manager skipping loading the IO drivers will make StreamPix launch faster Reload grabber s Automatically reload the camera frame grabbers used in the last session Reload sequence s Automatically reload sequences that were open in the last session Reload saved script Reload the saved script Don t enable unless needed StreamPix5 Copyright Norpi
162. recording will Camera 1 E be broadcast while Hardware properties amp Live Lamera 8 adjustments will not The check box allows to Lamera 3 P exclude specific workspaces from the multi Camera 4 E control broadcast For instance the image to the left indicates that workspace Camera 3 will not receive broadcast actions and that inversely any action done while Camera 3 is the active workspace will not be broadcast to other workspaces Workspace Manager ieee Select New Workspace to create a new workspace The name given will be used to Workspaces create a section in the registry where the Ss New Workspace grabber settings will be saved no two IF Camera 10 workspaces can have the same name E Camera 11 Reset Moreover a given grabber can not be loaded E Camera 12 SE in more than one workspace at the same time P Camera 2 Duplicate GE Rename Load and unload the workspaces by using the Wl Camera E checkboxes Camera 6 E Camera 7 See The Workspace Manager also allows for a F Camera Import from Settings File variety of actions After selecting a workspace E Camera 9 Export to Settings File from the list the user can select to reset it to S factory settings make a duplicate of it rename or delete it Selecting Close from the Workspace ribbon will close the active workspace this can also be done by clicking the x in the workspace tab Works
163. rejPost Reset F mm es The Module can perform the analysis on the whole image ia area or a region of interest ROI can be defined ROT Settings Three different image processing algorithms are available depending on the nature of the scene or image to be monitored Mean Gray Value The module will calculate the average gray level in the defined ROI and upon a change from a reference value will trigger the event Absolute Difference The module will calculate the pixel to pixel difference from a reference image and trigger the event when the difference reaches above a certain threshold Max absolute Difference The module will calculate the pixel to pixel difference from a reference image search for the maximum difference value and trigger the event when the difference reaches above a certain threshold The Module can generate any of the five following StreamPix events Start Recording Stop Recording Pre Post Continuous Continuously generate pre post events until the condition resets Pre Post Reset While waiting until the condition resets before generating a new pre post event Mark Frame StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 173 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Configuring Motion Detection Module The following parameters have to be configured Motion Detection D Image Source Source Image e Detection Algorithm From Camera From Sequence Detect On
164. rid Select the main workspace source to be display e Apply Bayer amp Color Process to All Workspaces Set to apply Bayer settings or color processing settings to all workspaces or the main video StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 148 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Premium Modules StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 149 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Audio Trigger This plugin monitors an audio input line and notifies StreamPix when the audio level is higher than a certain value threshold To get started select the capture audio device and sound format set a threshold value and start monitoring the audio line Watch the audio level indicators and adjust the threshold value Audio Input Level Device Microphone Logitech USB Headset Format 96 kHz stereo 16 bit M Left Right 0 Threshold 90 100 start Monitoring stop Monitoring Tri Acton Start Recording M Auto Rearm Then select an action to be executed by StreamPix when noise is detected Available actions are None Testing Mode Start Recording Stop Recording Pre Post Mark Frame Set Reference Time When done click on the Arm button to arm the trigger If the Auto Rearm option is checked the trigger will rearm itself automatically StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 150 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamP
165. right Norpix Inc C 2013 96 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com More Streampix Settings Auto Naming ANI Color Processing Displayed Data se Interface Automatically open folder after exports Metadata Automatically close current file when needed Playback Prompt before overwnting an existing file Playback Rate When exporting apply color processing After modules Pre Post Trigger Set description when marking a frame No Recording Notifications Recording Rate Frame drop notifications Enabled Remote Control Images Sequence JPEG Quality Default TIFF Format Normal Session TIFF DateTime Tag content Standard YYYY MM DDB DNG Bayer Pattem GERG DNG Camera Profile gt EES File Name Padding e vo Enable Input Control Disabled Frahle h nt Cantreal NDisahled Timeshifting Workspace s General Automatically open folder after exports If enabled this will automatically open the folder where the files were exported in window explorer Automatically close current file when needed If disabled the user will get a prompt every time the current sequence avi etc are closed Prompt before overwriting an existing file If enabled when a file name generated from an auto naming scheme would overwrite an existing file Stream
166. s gt 0 Use the default recording manager from Tools gt StreamPix Settings Recording Rate Custom Recording d nager Use a custom recording manager for this workspace Workspace Color Not available in the Single Camera version Sets the color associated with the currently selected workspace The workspace tab and docked dialog will both be painted in the chosen color This will facilitate working with them when multiple workspaces are loaded simultaneously The tab s font color will either be white or black depending on the chosen color Workspace Settings This allows the workspace to use different settings than those defined in the StreamPix Settings dialog Increment Allows to see and edit the current value of the increment token used in some auto naming schemes lf all workspaces are selected the change is applied to every workspace Recording Rate lf the recording is done following a precise rate this slider is used to set how many frames are skipped between each saved frames For example with a value of 2 50 of the frames will be saved So if the camera frame rate is 30 fps using a value of 30 will save 1 frame every second Go to StreamPix Settings gt Recording Rate to enable this mode and configure the slider range Custom Token Allows to set a custom value for the customtoken of the current workspace See StreamPix Settings gt Auto Naming If blank the workspace will use the default token If
167. s Hi 640 a osition Horizontal and Vertical GE GO E To calibrate start by selecting one of the 3 calibration methods available Inter pixel is the simplest method It assumes that you know the exact distance between adjacent pixels on the image To calibrate enter that distance under Calibrated Length The current calibrated length will appear as an overlay at the bottom of the image Between 2 points is the standard method This method requires you to left click and drag the calibration line s handles to make a line of known length on the image Enter that length under Calibrated Length Note that if you subsequently redraw or remove the calibration line you will have to adjust the Calibrated Length value accordingly For the best accuracy use a longer calibration line Between 2 points Horizontal amp Vertical is an advanced method It is only used for cameras that do not have square pixels Le where the CCD s inter cell distance is not the same horizontally and vertically The calibration procedure is the same as for the previous method except that you have to do it twice once with a horizontal line and once with a vertical line Both must be done for measurements to be accurate When calibration is completed switch to the Measure tab and do a couple of test measurement lines to see if everything is correctly calibrated If not return to Calibrate and readjust the calibration StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013
168. s from level low to level high and back to level low between two polling actions StreamPix would not notice that an edge occurred Event This is the event to monitor The standard Level low Level high Rising edge amp Falling edge are available Action This is the action to be done once the event occurs For now the available actions are Start Recording to start recording and Stop Recording to stop recording while Toggle Recording will start recording if it is not currently recording and will stop if it is Line Testing is a dummy action and will do nothing unless it is used in combination with the Log Action described below to test the input lines Trigger Pre Post Event will trigger an event when in Pre Post Trigger mode Set event StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 60 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com marker will set a marker on the current frame More actions will be added over the course of further developments and customers requests Target It can either be Self to apply the action to the Workspace only or All Workspaces to broadcast the action to all workspaces The second action allows to synchronize multiple workspace without having to configure their O Managers panels separately Event Name This is the name of the event happening when the Set Event Marker action is selected It is not used otherwise Log Action If this is checked each t
169. selected configuration For both of these the selected configuration refer to the configuration highlighted in the list and not the one currently loaded StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 138 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com PTG Time Overlay This module is specific to Point Grey cameras Point Grey cameras include some specific time stamp information that can be added with each captured images The PTG Time Overlay module allows users to decode that information and have it properly overlaid when the captured image is display It includes the support for the following 2 extra meta information provided by Point Grey camera API e PC system clock e Embedded image timestamp To enable that feature on the camera simply open hardware properties select Settings tab and set Time Stamp to ON default is OFF When that feature is on embedded image timestamp is going to overwrite the first 4 pixels of an 8 bit image 32 bit The same mechanism is used for the PC system clock next 4 pixels 32 bit includes the epoch time in second and next 4 pixels 32 bit include the epoch microseconds PTG Time Overlay The PTG Time Overlay Module allows to burn or overlay the time stamp associated with each images directly on the image itself You can specify the font type size position and location on the image The overlay information can include Cycle time embedded image time
170. set the range of the slider from here The second option the Recording Manager offers an even finer control of the recording process With it clicking on the record button will start running a predefined recording script You can make your own script using the Recording Manager Editor see the Recording Manager section for detailed information and examples StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 87 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Remote Control _ Streampix Settings Auto Naming Remote Control Cid AVI eae Enable remote control Ee Gun Make Streampix Bonjour discoverable on the network nterface MOV Allow workspaces to automatically connect to remote server when loaded Playback Compress images before transfer Playback Rate Pre Post Trigger Recording Settings Recording Rate Remote Control Local IP Sequence Remote IP 192 168 Session Compression T9 Port 3704 Timeshifting Workspace s Run Streampix Agent at system startup More Port 2012 You must log off or restart the computer for the changes to take effect This page is used to connect workspace s to a remote server like StreamPix Remote StreamPix Remote is an external application that allows the user to remotely view control and monitor multiple workspaces running on one or more computers on the local network It is distributed separately from StreamPix To configure StreamPix 5 to connect
171. shair in the image To move the crosshair type in new values in those two boxes You can also use the mouse to place the crosshair on the current image To do so simply left click anywhere on it dragging is also supported Moving the crosshair with the mouse cannot be done while in multi display mode Putting a checkmark on Lock Position will prevent accidentally changing the crosshair position while clicking around While locked the mouse control is disabled and the position boxes are read only Select the size of the cursor with the Size box The size is the number of pixels shown on each side of the center pixel For example selecting 5 will result in a crosshair made of two 11 pixels long lines Thickness allows to change the crosshair thickness Specified in pixels StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 110 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Click on Crosshair Color to change the color of the crosshair Default color is grey Clicking on Center will move the crosshair position to the exact center of the current image Coordinates The module also allows to burn the pixel coordinates of the crosshair on the image The coordinates are shown as a X Y string To do so first start by selecting the coordinates Position on the image Choose from None Top left Top Top right Bottom left Bottom Bottom right Then select the overlay colors Text for the text color
172. sing the Overlay mode versus the burn to image mode In overlay mode zoom factor applied on the image display has no effect on the display font User Data tab The user data tab includes 3 lines where extra text can be enterred That information will be stored into the csv log file with the GPS related coordinates DMI setup tab StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 161 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com GPS Font amp Position settings User Data DM Trigger Camera from DMI pulse Trigger Camera by time base Every 3 Pulses Every 1000 ms Delay 2nd Pulse 0 Initial Miles 0 000000000 Miles per Pulse 0 500000000 Input Device Edge Raising Edge Mile post Increase on Log to file v Mile Post Reset All information related to the DMI can be setup within that panel Trigger camera from DMI pluse trigger cameras by DMI pluse After select this option have to define trtigger pulse number Trigger camera by time trigger cameras by time After select this option have to define trtigger time Delay 2 pluse define the pluse delay for the 2 pluse Miles per Pulse parameter defines the DMI incremental distance between each pulse Refer to your DMI device documentation to enter the right value An incorrect value will affect the MilePost calculation DMI module support trigger camera by DMI pulse or time Initial Miles At the beginning of a dat
173. sing the monochrome image format default or accept the image to be converted first as a color RGB image Window leveling Linear window leveling can be performed for pixel depth greater that 8 bits By default StreamPix always displays the 8 most significant bits of captured images Window leveling can highlight specific bit ranges on the images As an example a 10 bit image can be leveled in 3 ways 8 most significant bits bit 2 to 10 default StreamPix setting 8 middle significant bits bit 1 to 9 8 least significant bits bit O to 7 StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 71 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Displayed Data Streampix Settings Auto Naming AVI Bayer Color Displayed Data DATA TO DISPLAY Interface Playback Camera framerate Pre Post Trigger Butter ans Recording Recording Recording position Total frame count Session Playback position Timeshifting Time stamp playback Workspace s EK Tmc More Destination file path Remote Control Sequence a O aSK ANNK a O ASKAK NK O 0O O0 0A NSK SIS Data font size CO l CO 4 Data font Terminal Reset to Default Values This page allows to customize the information displayed in the colored band above the image in the main display You can select which information to show when in single display or in multi display in live or in playback You can also choose the font type and font size used
174. sing the mouse wheel to scroll Click on the arrow button below Enable to show more options such as setting the subsampling or toggling the frame number shown on images Click on a thumbnail to obtain information about it and double click to move the playback position to this image Single Display amp Multi Display Refresh Rates These sliders allows to adjust the display areas refresh rates This only affect the display refresh speed there is no incidence on the camera frame rate or the capture rate If the StreamPix window has trouble redrawing itself or if there is a noticable command input lag lowering the refresh rate should help responsiveness by reducing the CPU usage StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 42 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com The Bayer Colors tab Home Workspaces Camera Audio Display Bayer Colors Sequence Tools Help AE grab level Bayer Pattern D aa 4 AE grab level On displayed Frames e On displayed Frames Accuracy IFF S On displayed Frames i On exported frames Recalculate Individual On exported Frames Sample Factor 1 2 On exported frames Balance Settings pple Bayer Conversion Bayer Conversion Settings pply Color Balance Color Balance Settings Apply Color Remapping Apply XXX At Grab level If this option is checked the selected processing will be applied on images as the are received from the camera As this is the
175. st frame rates as it allows for an higher transfer rate than a sequence on disk New AVI Creates an empty AVI that will be used to capture images Once the AVI is closed the generated AVI file can be played back using MediaPlayer or any compatible AVI player You can also playback the recorded AVI directly in StreamPix See Open AVI New Quicktime movie Creates an empty MOV that will be used to capture images Once the MOV is closed the generated MOV file can be played using the Quicktime player This is only available on Windows 32 bit StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 28 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com New Image Sequence Enables capture to an image sequence Supported formats are Windows Bitmap BMP Joint Photographic Expert Group JPG Tagged Image File Format TIF Portable Network Graphic PNG Flexible Image Transport System fit Lossless JPEG2000 jp2 Open Sequence This option will close any currently active Sequence and open a previously saved sequence file In the Open file dialog there is also an option to load the sequence in RAM for faster playback browsing Note that if there is not enough RAM available the sequence will only be partially loaded Changes made to a sequence loaded in RAM aren t mirrored on the source sequence on disk Reopen Last Sequence This will reload the last sequence used by the current workspace Open Sequence s in te
176. stamp and or Epoch time Embedded System Both Settings Font Terminal zs 0 Overlay Position Mode Overlay Only Select Font Color Select Background Color This can be useful when capturing exporting to AVI or image files because those formats don t have time stamp support StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 139 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Sequence Disk Space The Sequence Disk Space module allows to calculate the available space for recording on a disk or in RAM The module will use the disk that has been selected by the working folder option Free Space Estimation 71 Disk Sequence on C Total Space 232 88 GB Free Space 163 80 GB about 87607 images StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 140 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Time Overlay The Time Overlay allows to burn the time stamp associated with each images directly on the image itself or have it overlay no damage to the image data This can be useful when capturing exporting to AVI or image files because those formats don t have time stamp support Time Overlay General Font Position O Relative Absolute Overlay Burn to Image On Capture _ Burn to Image on Export Scheme Eee eens The time can be written as absolute or relative to the first frame of the sequence Various s
177. synch The pulse train triggers the camera exposure and so it controls the camera frame rate Assuming the board is programmed to generate multiple pulse trains having the same frequency all the cameras will be synchronized since the pulse trains are synchronized You can also specify a Start Delay generator will start X ms after clicking the Pulse ON button StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 177 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com NI Pulse Divider The NI Pulse Divider module provides a way to divide a pulse train frequency The National Instruments I O board must be compatible with NI DAQmx drivers and support pulse generation First specify the terminal where the input pulse that needs to be divided is present Then select the output channel and enter a divisor Use the Start and Stop buttons to start or stop the pulse train respectively Source Terminal PFIO Output Channel BevO ctro e Divisor 10 EE Limitation the divisor must be greater than 4 StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 178 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com SimulPix The SimulPix module give the ability to combine to output of 2 cameras into a single image The result image look like if the 2 images are superimposed Currently 2 algorithm can be applied for combining the 2 images e Merge 2 images together from the 2 separate sources Alpha
178. t Norpix Inc C 2013 181 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Camera 2 dropped frame 50 Sequence file from camera 1 will include 98 frames Time stamp difference between frame 24 and 25 aS well as 75 and 76 will show twice the expected duration Sequence file from camera 2 will include 99 frames Time stamp difference between frame 49 and 50 will show twice the expected duration Sequence file from Simulpix will include 97 frames Time stamp difference between frame 24 25 as well as 48 49 and 73 74 will show twice the expected duration When the 2 cameras does not run at the same frame rate the monitoring functionality will prevent the module to operate A registry key can be set to disable the frame drop monitoring process default if no key exists frame drop monitoring is on Key Path HKEY CURRENT USER Software Norpix Streampix5 Admin Key Name SyncChecking Key Type DWORD Key Value 1 enable 0 disable monitoring StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 182 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com SendRM Support sendRM exe Send Registered Message is a small command line application that allows to send registered messages to any application The command line synthax is SendRM Window Name Message StreamPix 5 is able to process external messages that will start recordings stop recordings etc More messages will be added w
179. t Norpix Inc C 2013 23 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Starting stopping a recording Once the your grabber is loaded and the destination file is selected recording can start To start recording click on the Record button in the Home tab To halt or resume a recording press the Record button again While a sequence file is recording frames are saved at the Recording position shown by a red triangle under the sequence slider The default recording position is after the last image of the sequence To change the recording position move the sequence slider to the desired position and click on Set Recording Position from the Sequence tab Note that the sequence slider will not be available if the destination file is an MOV or image file and that captured frames in these format will always be appended at the end of the destination As StreamPix does not support viewing of MOV or image files an external video or image viewer should be used Instead of recording all frames single frame snapshots of the live feed can be taken by using the Snap One Frame button in the Home tab Playback of a sequence To review the captured sequence enter the playback mode by either clicking on the display button representing a video tape icon in the workspace tab You can go back and forth between live and playback displays by clicking the respective display buttons on the tabs Browsing the sequence ca
180. tcuts to any command co Ye C Show Quick Access Toolbar below the Ribbon Keyboard shortcuts Faster One of the downside of the ribbon interface is that not all commands are accessible in a single click Some scenarios might require the user to use a particular command that is not located in the Home tab resulting in a lot of back and forth clicking between the tabs Hopefully StreamPix provides various ways to overcome this problem Assign a keyboard shortcut to the command so it can be called from anywhere at anytime Add the command to the Quick Access toolbar Items in this toolbar are always visible regardless of the currently selected tab It might also be advisable to place the Quick access toolbar under the ribbon bar for easier access Customize the ribbon to add frequently used features to the Home tab StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 14 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com Default list of Keyboard Shortcuts More can be added by the user StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Command Keyboard shortcut Toggle Bayer conversion on displayed frames Ctrl B Bayer conversion Sample Factor 1 1 Ctrl 1 Bayer conversion Sample Factor 1 2 Ctrl 2 Bayer conversion Sample Factor 1 4 Cirl 4 Bayer conversion Sample Factor 1 8 Ctrl 8 Close current workspace Ctrl F4 Toggle Display Ctrl D Full screen mode F12 Go to Frame Ctrl G Select all wor
181. the display area extend to the full screen while playing back a sequence or avi StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 79 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Maximum playback interval During playback the display is done following the time stamps So if two successive images are 10 seconds apart StreamPix will wait 10 seconds between the showing each image This can be a problem is the recording is not done continuously For example you start a recording stop it then restart it later To work around this problem StreamPix uses a maximum playback interval value For example if you set this value to 1000 ms the playback will proceed with at most a one second interval between each successive frames Default value is 5000 ms Frames moved on PageUp PageDown on slider When the sequence slider is selected the PageUp PageDown button can be used to move X frames forward or backward Synchronization The following features are not available in the Single Camera version The Multi Workspace Synch allows customize the behaviour of the slider s cursor when moved while StreamPix is in Select All Workspaces mode and only relevant if every sequence in each workspace was captured at the same time A master workspace must also be defined for the synchronization to be maintained Synchronize on master frame index This is used if all used cameras have the same frame rate and started recording at the
182. tings Auto Naming Playback ANI Bayer Color Setting Displayed Data Value General Interface Playback Playback Rate Pre Post Trigger Recording Remote Control Sequence SESSION Timeshifting Time stamps display format First Frame Last Frame behavior Autotewind Switch to Full Screen mode during playback Maximum playback interval ms Frames moved on PageUp PageDown on slider E Synchronization Enable synchronization across workspaces Auto select master workspace Absolute Index Yes No 5000 10 Yes Yes Workspaces synchronize on master frame s Time stamp Workspace s More Jl cance General Time stamps display format The time format used to display time in the interface It can either show the relative time relative to the first frame of the sequence or the absolute time actual date time First Frame Last Frame behavior Configure the way the lt and gt playback buttons behave Normaly they will move to the first and last frame of the sequence file However there is also the option to have them move to the oldest or most recent frame according to their time stamps The second option is useful if you do loop recording or pre post triggering Auto Rewind If enabled StreamPix will continue playback from the start when the end of the sequence is reached instead of stopping Switch to Full Screen mode during playback If enabled StreamPix will make
183. tion is refreshed every second As a consequence all frames received between 2 messages will be stamped with the same and constant information The GPS data can be burnt on each image or simply be overlaid no damage to the image data You can specify the font type size and position on the image The Save GPS data to file can be used during recording It will create a comma separated text file that stores the selected GPS information along with the index of each image The file is created in the same folder as the recorded sequence AVI MOV or image files and is using the recorded file name with a _gps txt extension If the destination media for recording is RAM rather than disk the file is created in the working folder and is called RAM sequence_gps txt Note Please check with Norpix for the up to date list of time source boards that support this feature StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 166 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com LiDAR Logger StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com This module connects to a Sick Bulkscan LMS 511 device It allows the user to configure some of its parameters and to retrieve the data sent by the device LIDAR Logger Measurements Mounting Angles IP Connecton Connection IP Address 192 168 60 85 Connect Port F111 Ge vd Automatically Reconnect At Startup First the user needs to establish the connection with the device by filling in the corresponding IP
184. to stop the StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 101 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com recording Most of the time every sub step should have at least one stop condition else the control will never be passed back to its parent step When a step reaches one its stop condition the step terminates and control is passed back to its parent step If the Main Step reaches one of its stop condition the recording is automatically stopped Every stop condition also has a property named Can Interrupt If it is enabled the stop condition s will be evaluated after each command If it is disabled the stop condition s are only evaluated when the step reaches its end Do X Times The step will stop after it has been ran X times Until X Frames The step will stop once X frames have been captured by the step and child steps For Time X The step will stop after a certain time Until Time X The step will stop when the system time reaches a predefined time Until IO The step will stop when a specific IO event occurs ex Rising Edge Until Timed IO The step will stop after the input level has been high or low for the specified amount of time StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 102 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Recording Manager Script Examples To grab at half the frame rate Complexity low Main Step Commands Grab
185. tored in the sequence header Pa The number of frames the sequence will hold Thu Jun 12 11 00 34 939 J can be adjusted in this dialog to make sure that USB 1024L5 gt AD gt Rising Edge gt Set Event Marker according to the chosen option in StreamPix Explosion Settings gt Recording recording will restart Wee Wees EN from the beginning of the sequence or stop USB 1024L5 gt AO gt Falling Edge gt Set Event Marker when recording position reaches this value E Default is 0 for standard unlimited recording Paper Jam Frame 87 Thu Jun 12 11 00 32 554 T Finally any browsing with the sequence slider USB 1024L5 gt 40 gt Rising Edae gt Set Event Marker gt F T su will be accordingly reflected in the thumbnails section Click on Show Event Markers to show each logged event Events are created by Set Event Marker I O actions that can be configured from the I O Manager Docked Dlalog See next section Click on any event to go to the associated frame in the sequence Click on Edit to edit the StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 59 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com selected marker description You can also delete one or all events using the respective buttons Event Marker information is saved in a separate xml file named after the sequence na
186. treamPix Settings gt Recording Clear Reference Time Remove the reference time associated with the current sequence The time of the sequence first frame will become the new reference Decrease Playback Speed lf the Manual Playback slider is enabled clicking on this button will move the slider one notch to the left Increase Playback Speed If the Manual Playback slider is enabled clicking on this button will move the slider one notch to the right Trigger Pre Post Event If the Pre Post Trigger is enabled it will trigger the related event Trigger Module Some modules can be triggered by clicking on this button instead of using their docking panel interface Refer to the module s help to see if it supports this trigger button Set Recording Position This will set the current playback s frame position as the recording position causing the next frame recorded to overwrite this frame By default the recording position is one frame past the last frame of the sequence StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 48 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Toggle Timeshifted Playback Activate or deactivate the timeshifted playback mode See StreamPix Settings gt Timeshift for more information Show Sequence Information Shows various informations on the current sequence or AVI file if one is currently loaded StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 49 187 Norpix In
187. u can either reload all those sequences or a specific one using the corresponding button If the sequence can t be found because it was moved or deleted an error message will be shown It is also recommended to delete older or obsolete entries from the history from time to time to reduce loading times Settings Show the StreamPix Settings dialog Exit Close StreamPix StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 31 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com The Home tab we Home Workspace Camera Display BayerColars Markers Sequence Tools Help d LIVE m a La HA H vm wem EI Set Camera ROI SI m Hardware Properties AE Tnn Me BC ME S E ee el Scroll amp Zoom E 4 snap First Step Play Pause Step Last Multi Display Select All Set Set if A StreamPix 45 Live Adjustments Frame Back Forward Frame Mode Workspaces First Last UlParselection Settings Camera Recording Playback GUI Mouse control Selection LIVE Toggles camera streaming on off Turn streaming off to stop receiving frames from the camera Hardware Properties See the Camera tab Live Adjustments See the Camera tab Record Clicking once on Record will start saving frames coming from the grabber to the destination file sequence AVI images etc while clicking a second time on it will stop recording If the destination is a sequence file the recording will start at the Recording Position usually
188. u want the module to trigger Possible values are without the quotes Pre Post Start Record Stop Record Start Playback Stop Playback Mark Frame create new sequence and start recording Seq file name token is defined by User defined message Test Workspace The target workspace name If workspace name is empty target is current workspace or if Selected All Workspace is active target will be all workspaces User defined message Any string the user wants to send It can be retrieved by specific the module for some specific usage UDP Trigger IP address The IP address that the module IP Address 192 168 1 80 Port 6610 will be listening from J Trigger Event V Log UDP message 1 Stop Monitoring Port The port number the module will be listening from Trigger Event Enable disable the module When enabled the module will forward received events to StreamPix and workspaces StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 143 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Log UDP message All received messages will be log to a file located in AppData Norpix UDP Trigger Start Stop monitoring Turn on off monitoring of the UDP messages In conjunction with the UDP Trigger Module a NET C sample application is provided It can be used to generate and send messages to the module The sample files and code are installed with Stream
189. ue when holding Ctrl Shift while cliking in a display The zoom will be centered on the pixel under the mouse QuickZoom Full View Set the zoom factor to a specific value when using the Ctrl key combination The zoom will be centered on the pixel under the mouse ROI QuickZoom minimum size Set the minimum size allowed for the Zoom ROI The ROI QuickZoom allows to make a zone of the image use the full display area If it is smaller than the minimum size the ROI size will be increased accordingly Note If the ROI is smaller than 4x4 pixels the ROI action will be ignored Docked Dialog Not available in the Single Camera version Which workspace is shown in the docking panel for each mode Single or Multi Display can also be selected here Differentiating each display of a Muti Display array is facilitated by setting secific colors for each one in the Select Workspace Color in the Workspace tab StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 74 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Customizing the Ribbon interface Customize Application Menu and Customize Ribbons allow to change the layout and content of the application menu the round button at the top left or the ribbon and of the ribbons themselves By default the menu uses small icons On a HD screen gt 1024x768 you might want to use the large icons for better results see the checkbox StreamPix will have to be restarted
190. upport support norpix com MOV settings Streampix Settings Auto Naming _ ANI Bayer Color Quicktime Default Settings Displayed Data i Peai Video Codec Apple None Codec Settings on Aude Audio Settings d s Images Video Compression Quality Hormal Network Playback SESCH Force Frame Rate BEE fps Recording Sequence Session Timeshifting Workspaces Important the MOV format is only available on 32 bit Windows This page is used to set the default options used when exporting to a MOV file If Automatic File Naming is enabled those settings will be used If the selected codec offers additionnal settings clicking on Codec Settings will display a dialog custom to the codec For most codec a higher Video Compression Quality will result in a larger file To get an uncompressed Quicktime file choose Apple None as the Video Codec Finally note that some codecs will put watermark on the images or simply won t work if you don t have the required license You can also Create a SMPTE timecode track if you have an external LTC time source This timecode track will be selectable in the Quicktime Player by clicking on the current time ex 00 00 00 and selecting Timecode Non Drop Frame from the drop down menu StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 78 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Playback settings streampix Set
191. upport support norpix com Pre Post Trigger Streampix Settings Auto Naming AVI Pre Post Trigger Bayer Color Displayed Data Interface E Enable Pre Post Trigger While this is enabled recording will automatically loop at a certain length The limit sequence size value from the Recording tab Vis also ignored Playback Pre Post Trigger Recording I Remote Control Before Sequence Use time controlled mode ee Oe Event Ater WM 6 Use frame controlled mode EH Frame controlled Timeshifting Workspace s ae More frames Automatic Ream While enabled the curent sequence file will automatically be saved and closed after each After You can also select Sequence File as the auto created target file in the Recording tab to create a new sequence for every event E Rename the file after the reference time stamp when the sequence is closed Configure each workspace individually use the pre post docked dialogs for each workspaces Pre Post Trigger is a special recording mode It is recommended to use this feature only with sequence files on disk or in RAM as the other formats AVI bmp tiff etc do not support loop recording Pre Post Trigger ignores the loop settings and always loops sequence limit if any Pre Post Trigger also ignores the First define a duration for the Pre and the Post length In time controlled mode when record is
192. ve CPU for time critical operations the Histogram Plugin should be unloaded when recording a sequence StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 117 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com IDT Mx Camera Control Tool This module allows to control and adjust some of the most important IDT M3 camera features by sending specific commands to the camera using the MVX SDK the camera API Therefore before loading the module the communication with the camera must be set up properly and tested in the MVX Control application For this module the frame grabber that connects to the IDT M3 camera must disable the serial communication Otherwise the module will not be able to connect to the communication port IDTM3 Control Tool Image Settings l ii e sync In Internal e The Image page of the interface lets you Sei 1280 Y 1024 a adjust the ROI on X only Sync In Gain Sety g F Gain dB Exposure Time Frame Rate Setting the ROI g defines a new range for available frame rates m E R BW ie Changing the Frame Rate sets a new range s for available shutter times Exposure sl L 100 B 100 Frame Rate BEI 1 100 IDTM3 Control Tool The Settings page allows you to open the camera you want to use The available Cameras are displayed in the list only after choosing the proper Baud Rate Then simply select the camera and press Open camera Image Settings Camera Status SN Frame Gr
193. ver is in sync with the reference time source IRIG B or GPS world time 4 The time source receiver is not in sync with the reference time source IRIG B or e GPS world time 5 The time source receiver is no longer in sync with the reference time source IRIG B disconnected or GPS satellite tracking lost but the board internal clock is still accurate enough to deliver good time information StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 142 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com UDP Trigger Module This module can be used to send notifications to StreamPix using Ethernet UDP messages These messages can be decoded by the module and trigger various StreamPix actions This module can only be loaded once Hence when used in a context of multiple workspaces the module is loaded only once but can forward messages to specific workspaces The current number of decoded messages is limited Upon demand we can add more messages and implement further functionnalities Contact support norpix com for inquiry The message is formatted as a string with the following tokens Action Number EventName Workspace User defined message Action Keyword The module always checks messages by searching for this keyword Number This is a number that can take any value It will be retrieved by the module into a 32 bit integer and is currently reserved for future usage EventName The StreamPix event yo
194. vie mov BMP format bmp JPEG format jpg TIFF format tif PNG format png Flexible Image Transport System fit Lossless JPEG2000 jp2 Digital Negative format dng Windows Media Photo wdp a a a SS H a a Current Image Exports the image aligned with the sequence cursor Current Selection Exports all images in the current selection All images will be ae ii E named based on the filename typed in the Save As dialog box Full Sequence Exports all images of the sequence All images will be named EIS SIS ale a based on the filename typed in the Save As dialog box In All Workspaces Not available in the Single Camera version Same as the default action but applied to all workspaces Sequence History StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 30 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com Sequence History History H 2008 03 02 March 2nd 2005 5 2005 03 05 March Sth 2008 IEG H HG Press Del to delete the selected entry StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Workspaces amp sequences For the selected entry Workspace Sequence CAM C VempuC AM seg CO Ciibempi cams ce Close all current workspace s before reloading Reload All Sequences Reload Selected Sequence Allows you to reload previous recording sessions The sessions are sorted by dates and hours Select the desired hour and the workspaces sequences that were loaded at that time will be shown From there yo
195. viewing This apply to every Export current image current selection amp full sequence to a sequence File seq StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 90 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com RAM Sequence When closing a RAM sequence Allows to decide what happen when a RAM sequence is closing The choices are Discard the sequence Ask if the sequence is to be saved or Automatically save the sequence using the auto naming scheme for exports See Auto Naming settings Pre allocated RAM frames Pre allocate the memory for uncompressed RAM sequences Try this if the normal capture to RAM drops frames burst recording Stop recording is available RAM is lt MB When recording to a RAM sequence StreamPix can become irresponsive if the system run out of RAM To avoid that every second or so StreamPix will check the amount of RAM available and if it reaches the critical value specified here the recording will automaticaly be stopped Compression for new sequences amp Compression for exported sequences Here you can set the compression mode used by sequence files By default sequence files don t use compression resulting in lossless quality and superior recording performance Use sequence compression if disk space is a concern There are two sections one for new sequences i e sequence files used for direct recording and one for exported sequences This allows for example to
196. w Angle 7 7 30 90 to 90 The Mounting Angles page allows the user to fill in the angles at which the device is mounted These parameters are also saved along with the data received from the device StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 167 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com The data structure of the LIDAR output is detailed below Sample entry 1 2012 07 05 16 53 50 314 30 20 35 DATA_PKT_ DISTANCE1 MEAS 3500 23826 1 2500 0 000000 429491 7296 761 405 3058 Image index in the sequence group delimiter Date Time Milliseconds group delimiter X orientation Y orientation Z orientation group delimiter Measurement type Scan Rate Scan Count increase by 1 with each scan line Scale Factor group delimiter Angular Step Width Scale Offset Start Angle 50000 in 1 10 000 deg units Number of Data Points group delimiter Data 1 2012 07 05 16 53 50 314 30 deg 20 deg 35 deg DATA_PKT_ DISTANCE1_ MEAS Distance measurement 35 Hz 23826 unique scan line index for this device will always 1 2500 0 25 deg in 1 10 000 deg units 0 4294917296 5 degrees 232 50000 max long value 761 190 deg sweep 0 25 deg step 1 lt 761 Data Values gt in millimeters from unit StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 168 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com L
197. wise to install StreamPix from the CD ROM or from a web file please select streampix5 setup exe and follow the on screen instructions StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 10 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Authorization codes There are two versions of StreamPix 5 Single Camera and Multi Cameras The Single Camera version doesn t support multiple workspaces and it is suited to applications that require a single camera StreamPix5 exe Multi Cameras and StreamPix5 single exe Single Camera also require distinct authorization codes Finally each grabber is individually protected and needs a specific authorization code to be loaded To enable the use of frame grabbers and cameras please obtain the corresponding authorization codes from NorPix by contacting NorPix sales You will be sent an authorization file npx including the authorizations codes will be written You then can either double click the npx file to register it or do it through StreamPix There are 4 protection methods available Machine Code This is the favored authorization method to be used if the external USB key method is not suitable The machine code is built from a number of system parameters and can be retrieved by using SysInfo exe External USB Key Using the USB key ensures that the recording process is independent from a specific system StreamPix may be loaded on different computers and the
198. would be created for each workspace and that every sequence from this workspace would be uniquely identified by the date time part It is recommended to test each naming scheme on a short recording before applying it to a complete recording session When creating a new image sequence BMP TIFF etc it is possible that the automatic naming scheme doesn t contain enough dynamic tokens i e tokens that can help prevent generating the same file name twice In that case you can check the Append an increment to the base file name checkbox When this is is checked a base name will be generated for the first image and StreamPix will automatically reuse the same name for every other images appending an index value to differenciate them 1 2 3 4 etc When using auto recording the default settings for the format will be used The default settings are set in the following StreamPix Settings pages AVI MOV More gt Images and Sequence StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 64 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Back to the AutoNaming setting page the next section allows the user to specify the default value of the customtoken and edit the increment token behavior Edit increment settings Automatically increment the token value After creating a new target file seq avi mov After each recording Starting value Srg values 1 EI Automatically reset th
199. x Inc C 2013 92 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Show Reload Options dialog If a crash occurs the reload dialog will allows you to select which grabber sequence to reload or none at all If disabled everything will be reloaded as if nothing happened Initial window state Initial window state when StreamPix is launched normal minimized maximixed Factory Defaults Allows to reset some settings to their default values Resetting the workspace will erase all the workspaces while leaving the StreamPix settings intact The other option reset everything StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 93 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Timeshifting Streampix Settings Auto Naming AVI Bayer Color Displayed Data Interface Playback Pre Post Trigger Recording Remote Control Sequence Session Timeshifting Timeshifting Whenever a frame is captured show the frame that was captured HH MM 55 MS D 0 10 D before it d frames before it the frames will be displayed in the sequence display Enabling disabling timeshifting is done from Ribbon gt Tools gt Toggle Timeshifted Playback with the default interface Workspace s More This page is used to configure the timeshifted playback function You can specify the timeshift mode to be either based on a time delay or
200. x5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 174 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com defined as the reference Use the capture button to capture and save the reference image to disk Algorithm Max Absolute Difference Less Max absolute Difference e The percentage grey defines the minimum value difference in pixel intensity that must be encountered before an event is triggered e The difference can be calculated between the current and last image or with a reference image Reference Image constant that you need to define Use the capture Use Previous Image button to capture and save the reference image to Use Constant Image Capture disk Select StreamPix event to be triggered There are five possible StreamPix events that the module can trigger Start Recording Stop Recording Pre Post Continuous Pre Post Reset Mark Frame Event to Trigger Pre Post Reset To make the module less sensitive to false detection it is i also possible to enable event triggering only after the Generate Event After 1 mg verify Condition condition was detected continuously for a specific number of consecutive frames Select ROI Motion Analysis can be performed either on a full image size or using a specified region of interest ROI ROI can be defined by either manually entering the coordinate of the region in the image or by interactively clicking and dragging an ROI on the display area
201. y high sometimes delivering 20 000 lines per second or 20 000 pages images per second Managing 20 000 lines a second could be challenging for most software However combining those lines within for instance a single page made of 100 lines allows StreamPix to deal with a more sedate 200 images per second The line scan viewer module can also be used to export acquired lines into various formats Combine consecutive lines into a single area scan like image export to still images Convert to an equivalent area scan movie Once the module is loaded you will notice a new tab in the workspace display area This tab gives access to the linescan viewing pad while you can still access the usual live camera pad and sequence pad ator EH Ea The module includes 3 tabs to allow configuring various display and referring options General tab display options The line scan pad can display images from 2 sources Direct from the camera or from the recorded sequence file When Number of lines is set to automatic the number of lines in the waterfall display is adjusted to StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 169 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com the viewer window size When set to manual one can define how many lines will be simultaneously displayed General Font amp Position Export Source Number of lines Camera Live Sequence Playback Se Orientati
202. yer parameters and color correction parameters can either be set commonly for all workspaces or eventually individually per workspace When switching to the per workspace mode individual settings can be access via Individual Settings in the Workspace tab This page allows to manage the parameters applied during Bayer conversion and color processing process Bit Depth Management Image bit depth while exporting By default while exporting StreamPix will export a 10 12 14 or 16 to an 8 bit image Selecting this option will enable to convert the image original bit depth to 8 bit or maintain it For instance 8 bit gt 8 bit 10 bit gt 8 Bit 10 bit gt 10 bit 3x10bit RGB gt 3x8 bit RGB Note The Bayer Accuracy Adaptive HDDA ignore this feature since it only supports 8 bit StreamPix5 Copyright Norpix Inc C 2013 67 187 Norpix Inc www norpix com StreamPix 5 Tech Support support norpix com Color Processing Look up table type Use either a 1D or 3 D LUT This defines the type of look up table LUT applied during color processing 3D LUT will require significant more RAM and initialization time but allows better rendering Selecting a1D or 3D LUT has no processing overload exception of when exporting 10 bit images with a 3D LUT Look up table calculation To speed up all the color grading Bayer interpolation and white balancing image rendering a global look up table taking into account all the parameters is ca

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