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1. in Plugin Manager I Auto Function Control Image Convert Plugins Manager HV1351UC1 Please choose plugin in blew Index Name 0 Auto Function Control 1 Image Convert Description used in setting auto function parameter Go back to Media Capture window and select menu Preview camera video preview should appear on both Media Capture window and iVision main window Select menu Options gt Video Capture Filter to bring up the camera parameters setup Properties dialog again and adjust the A D gt Change Level under Capture tab and the Shutter gt Speed and the Gain gt Gain parameters under Control tab for the best quality image capture Exit 1Vision and the camera parameters should be saved for the next start Properties Snap Mode Snap Rate at 477745 Soft Trigger Snap Speed MEN Fri gt Snap Mode Continuati trobe On Off y CAD Du Black Level User s Manual Trigger Polarity Hi gh y Strobe Polarity High y Change Level ADC_LEVEL2 y Black Level Disabled Control Capture Plugin Shutter Auto Shutter gt ExposureMode Galn Auto Gain Gain Red Blue IY eer Blanking Horizon Vertical Apply Page 3 3 3 0 Getting Started 3 2 Starting the application 3 2 1 Graphical User Interface GUI setup Layouts User may start the application 1Vision either by pushing the camera snapshot button or starting2. DutPut Windows Stream Format r Video Format Compression Video Standard None Frame Rate 30 000 A I Frame Interval D Flip Horizontal 7 Snap Shot P Frame Interval a mis StartX Coordinates tO StartY Coordinates Im End Coordinates EndY Coordinates Color Space Compression reg 24 Video format setup of a Digital microscope b II Camera 02 3 1 4 Camera parameter setup On Media Capture window select menu Options gt Video Capture Filter to bring up the camera parameters setup Properties dialog Media Capture File Devices Options Capture Preview MPEG2 Video Capture Filter Video Capture Pin a Digital microscope Normally running in automatic mode the camera parameters rarely need user setup However user may manually change them if needed test Az anos mig Video Proc Amp Camera Contra Auto ws p r rest o r Dr ate j 1 r segna _ 5 pi lt a pain User s Manual Page 3 2 3 0 Getting Started Select menu Options gt Preview video preview should appear on both the Media Capture window and the main window The Media Capture window can be closed if no more setup is needed b If Camera 02 Under tab Plugin click button Plugin select menu Plugin Manager to invoke the Plugin Manager dialog Make sure all the plugin components are checked Plugin Manager
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4. normal resolution the video preview becomes very dark if the sample surface is highly reflective and the camera is in auto white balance When that occurs simply go to Camera settings and press the default button to restore to normal Manual correction If the indentation label circle in case of Measure by circle or the major minor axes in case of Measure by major minor axes is off the real indentation mouse click on the circle or the 4 vertices and move to align with the real indentation and the new HB value will update automatically Manual measurement If user needs to manually measure indentation diameter and HB click on the manual measurement button either Measure by circle or Measure by major minor axes In case of measurement by circle mouse press on one end of the indentation diameter and drag to the other end If the indentation shape is elliptical then measurement by major minor axes applies mouse press on one end of the indentation major axis and drag to the other end and then do the same on the minor axis The measured HB will show in the table Delete measurement Select the measurement rows in the table by clicking on the vertical table header and click on the Remove Measurements K button to remove the selected rows User s Manual Page 3 10 3 0 Getting Started 5 New Sample Click on the New Sample button all data in the data table will be cleared 6 HB conversion Under HB Conversion tab in the
5. at the left bottom 3 3 4 Album Management O To view the album select menu View gt Image Album To change image display size in album move the splitter Album can be docked in the main window and it can be floated also O Double click on the image will copy the image into the album and conversely double click on the image on the album will copy it to the image panel To open save album file go to menu File To reorder the images in album drag an image with its frame and drop it to position To remove an image or images on album click to select and press the Delete key ing aon x Gi Ho Results HE 1145 3 3 5 Printing With Magnification Connect to the printer first and select menu File gt Print to bring up the printing dialog Select or enter the desired magnification at the bottom the image print size will change accordingly in preview User may enter text can be in HTML format to include tables lists images etc under user input and the text will be saved for next printing Analysis result tables and statistics summaries can be checked for printing And all the above elements to be printed have options in printing locations in either top bottom left and right The textbox widths can be limited by their width inputs 0 SERIDN EE ajo Freies Meilen oc Tan Duse input Datum a E Fl heast Motion vertical a bdo DO Ana read table Bottom om won
6. automatically Answer automatic since the camera driver 1s already pre installed during installation 3 1 2 Camera selection Open iVision select menu Image Capture gt Open capture window to invoke the Media Capture window Then go to menu Devices and select the camera Digital microscope or II Camera 02 that comes with this application Note that there may be other cameras that are installed on the PC File Options Capture w Digital microscope Integrated Camera Il Camera 02 Microphone Venus USB2 0 Camera Microphone 2 High Definition 3 1 3 Camera resolution setup In the HB measurement two image resolutions are set automatically in the application one is 640X480 Digital microscope or 640X512 II Camera 02 measuring indentation in 2mm 8mm range while the other is double the width and height the high resolution mode measuring in lt 1mm to 4mm range Nevertheless user may manually select the camera resolution in the other application GeoMeasure geometry measurement On Media Capture window select menu Options gt Video Capture Pin to bring up the camera video format setup Properties dialog and select resolution from Output Size Digital microscope or Video Format II Camera 02 Media Capture Pan File Devices Capture Preview MPEG2 Video Capture Filter Video Capture Pin User s Manual Page 3 1 3 0 Getting Started Device Format Video Format ET ERED apt
7. force will be automatically calculated Video preview Under the tab Settings make sure the High Resolution Measurement is unchecked Place the handheld camera on an indentation on the standard sample and click the Video Preview ma button to start video preview Move the camera head so that the indentation appears and shows clear edge ey O Vision 100 Camera previ File View Preprecess Calibeation Capture Gechblerum HB Help aw Bo so e A GL e O RE bo LU Image Capbire Selimpi 62 tae Proper tera Calibration Click on the Auto Measure O button to find and measure the indentation If the system 1s able to find the indentation then the HB Measurement Settings dialog will prompt user to enter the User s Manual Page 3 5 3 0 Getting Started known HB value of the sample If the found circle matches with the real indentation then enter the value otherwise cancel the entry and manually drag the circle to match the indentation and then enter the value If in any case the system could not find the indentation then user may manually draw and match the indentation on the image and the system will prompt the entry There are two methods to manually measure the indentation 1 Measure by circle O Measure by major minor axes D In case of measurement by circle mouse press on one end of the indentation diameter and drag to the other end If the indentation shape is elliptical then measu
8. from the PC just for a regular PC program At first startup select menu HB gt HB measurement the main interface of this application will appear User may adjust the splitter dimensions and the table column widths to his her preference and the system will keep the GUI settings at next startup vison 100 Camera prev File Wew Pregroceri Calibration Capture Geohteasure HI Help aM a we A te m Configurations Many other GUI settings such as menu orders can be configured in the Configuration Settings dialog through menu File gt View Edit configurations _ Process AutoShape Font Image Process List Automatic calibration 4 9 auto_calibration png Icon File 4 Calibration A Show Action On Menu Automatic calibration ee J Automatic calibration u Process Settings Calibration viewer Change password Property Value Manual calibration gt Lo Geometry Meas 4 HB Hardness Calibrate with sample Change password HB automatic measur HB test settings 4 Image Capture Camera settings Capture image Capture image to alb Close capture window Open capture window a Preview e Language To choose a different GUI language go to menu Help and select menu Language Choose the new language and the application will exit After restarting the application the new language will take effect 3 2 2 Camera calibration In o
9. load the named calibration by selecting menu Calibration gt Calibration viewer and load the calibration from there Calibrated Item Pixel Unit 4 640X480 HBSam 61 2654 Ft 60 6021 m Current Calibration Loaded 640X480_HBSampleCalibration Calibration Parameters Length Unit mm Physical Distance 30 Calibration Name 20 0 Ca User s Manual Page 3 7 3 0 Getting Started Calibrated Item Pixel Unit i Calibration Type Last M 4 1280X1024 23 2814 Do you want to load the calibration Loaded 640X480_HBSampleCalibration b Automatic calibration Automatic calibration is much more complex in process but more convenient in usage It automatically finds the cross points on the grid image map them to their physically locations and obtain the true 2 D mapping between a physical location and its pixel location via interpolation In stead of a calibration ruler a calibration grid is needed to do the automatic calibration First select menu Calibration gt Auto calibration settings to set up the X amp Y line distance unit etc If the lines in image will be darker than the background then Invert Image needs to be checked Snap an image with the grid approximately aligned Select menu Calibration gt Automatic calibration to perform the automatic calibration after which the system will locate and mark most of the cross points of the grid image File Vicar Pecpreccs Cabbrabon C
10. HB measurement main interface select the conversion table from Conversion Table and a conversion type from Converted Hardness the converted hardness value will be displayed in a separate column in the table If the conversion data 1s not needed just click on the Delete Converted Hardness K button to remove If to update the conversion data simply click on the Update button o gt 7 Validation Under the Validation tab click on the Update button or the Delete Validation Columns K button to generate or to remove the validation columns The validation columns displays the columns Min Sample Thickness for minimum sample thickness Min Indent Dist for minimum distance between indentations and Min Indent Edge Dist for minimum indentation to sample edge distance for all the measurements in the data table 3 2 5 Reporting Click on the Generate Report w button the measurement data together with the statistical data and the measurement images will be reported in a Microsoft Word or Excel document depending on user s specification The Word or Excel document template can be customized to user s requirements User s Manual Page 3 11 3 0 Getting Started Brinell Hardness HB Test Results loo fo esos fo o User s Manual Page 3 12 3 0 Getting Started 3 3 Appendix Using the standard features 3 3 1 Geometric Measurement Select any one of the sub menus on the menu GeoMeasure the geometric measurement main
11. IA meni nico A Eines 3 14 3 35 Pinang With Magnification soea E E E A E ET 3 14 User s Manual Page ii 1 0 General Information 1 0 GENERAL INFORMATION User s Manual Page 1 1 1 0 General Information 1 0 GENERAL INFORMATION 1 1 System Overview 1Vision HB Brinell Hardness Indentation Automatic Measurement System 1s used in automatically measuring the indentation diameters calculating and reporting the hardness HB values in the Brinell hardness test and measurement The system includes one or two handheld USB cameras optional and the 1Vision HB image acquisition and automatic measurement software Plain USB camera head is also available for the cases of direct HB hardness measurement on the Brinell hardness tester 1 2 System Requirements System IBM compatible PC with Windows XP Windows Vista or Windows 7 32 bit or 64 bit operating system 1GHz CPU and 512MB RAM or higher are recommended due to the intensive calculation in image processing At least two USB2 0 ports are required with one for the USB license key and another for the handheld USB camera Supporting Software In order to generate Word reporting MS Office 2003 or higher Excel and Word are needed 1 3 Main Features 1 3 1 Automatic HB hardness measurement With a mouse click or a keyboard press or a push on the camera snapshot button Digital microscope camera only 1Vision software automatically measures the indentation diameter and calcula
12. IVision HB Brinell Hardness Indentation Automatic Measurement System USER S MANUAL April 20 2011 USER S MANUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1 0 GENERALINFORMATION aus bha 1 2 1 1 SYSLEDE OVER VICW A TT 1 2 1 2 System Requite Medi ansieht 1 2 1 3 Mama des lia ARPA o narant ara perraro r Er A Taa ear Ea a NENEA TE apaiia 1 2 1 3 1 Automatic HB hardness measurement Le 1 2 2 Camera cabral sica 1 2 1 33 y EE A O A O A 1 2 E4 A i lidi lee alli di 1 2 1 393 A ei 1 3 1 4 Standard Features cal alal aaa 1 3 LAT Geometrie Mesuren nl teu a 1 3 142 Imase Process near 1 3 LAR Document Ener tas 1 3 4 4 Albun Manascment ersi ea 1 3 1 4 5 Printing With Specified Masnificaton aaa ee ee elo 1 3 2 0 SOFTWARE TN STAEDLATION slice 2 2 2 1 Installatton Overview ssaa 2 2 2 2 Installation Instructions cai 2 2 3 0 GETTINGSTARTED saudita anne 3 1 3 1 Camera Secc iia 3 1 ILL Camera dieras AA ilaele 3 1 3 12 Camera Selecionar 3 1 3 1 3 Camera TesOluGlOm Seta tna 3 1 5 1 3 Camera parameter iii 3 2 3 2 Starting the application nennen aan anna 3 4 3 2 1 Graphical User nterface GULES 3 4 322 Camere onirico 3 4 3 23 Measurement 3 9 24 Mosella 3 10 329 RG ONIN ail a eee 3 11 3 3 Appendix Using the standard features ccccccssssssssssssccccsssssssssssccccsccsssssssccccsssssssssess 3 13 334 Geomerie Meca dd 3 13 3 3 2 Image Processo 3 13 3995 DOCU EOL ENUN erns E E T te 3 13 E
13. aphere Gosbdesiuse EA Shichisg Help E es 47 Do you want to load the calibration beige Sine LEIOA Calbuntica loaded IIBIKIODI auto Bartl User s Manual Page 3 8 3 0 Getting Started 3 2 3 Measurement settings Indentation force ball diameter and warning upper lower limits etc are set in the HB Measurement Settings dialog by clicking on menu HB gt HB measurement settings or by clicking on the Test Settings button under Settings tab Test Parameters Ball Diameter Force Settings F D2 10 BallDiameter 10 v mm Force 98039 N 1000 00 Kg Alarm Upper Lower Limits HB Lower Limit 120 Operator Auto Measurement Image Processing Parameters Smooth Aperture 1 Auto measure method Brightness Min diameterfratio 0 05 Max diameter ratio Min central X ratio 0 1 Max central X ratio 0 9 Min central Y ratio 0 1 Max central Y ratio 0 9 Cancel ok Note that in automatic measurement the limiting dimensions e g min max diameters min max center locations can be set in this dialog Two algorithms are developed in automatically measuring the indentation one is Brightness by indentation brightness on the image which is default while the other is Edge by indentation edge In special cases if the image background and the indentation are all dark but the indentation edge is clear then select Edge In the below pictures the left is by Brightness defaul
14. brated 1 4 2 Image Processing System provides a rich set of image processing tools for advanced users The standard tools in the system include adjusting Brightness Contrast Gamma and Histogram Level and the Sharpen Smooth Invert and Convert to Grey functions On grey scale images system provides various advanced tools in filtering and finding edges as well as some standard tools in morphological operations such as Open Close Dilation Erosion Skeletonize and Flood Fill 1 4 3 Document Entry On an image system provides a document editor to enter edit documents with contents either in simple plain text format or in advanced HTML format with objects including tables list and images 1 4 4 Album Management System allows user manage multiple images in an album which can be saved to and opened from an album file The images can have the standard geometric shapes and the documents as entered by user as described above 1 4 5 Printing With Specified Magnification System can print the image with user specified magnification 1f 1t 1s calibrated User s Manual Page 1 3 2 0 Software Installation 2 0 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION User s Manual Page 1 1 2 0 Software Installation 2 0 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 2 1 Installation Overview 1Vision software is modular in architecture It consists of the application platform and upon which the application modules The following components are installed in 1Vision HB 1 Microsoft VC
15. erage button o in the Settings tab and enter the sample HB value at the prompt The new calibration is activated and saved automatically User s Manual Page 3 6 3 0 Getting Started 2 Calibration on a calibration ruler or grid User may prefer to calibrate the camera directly with a standard ruler instead of a standard hardness sample especially when the calibration is used in geometry measurement instead of hardness measurement a Manual calibration Manual calibration simply calculates the linear scale between the pixel distance and the physical distance of two points on image Place the calibration ruler or grid under the camera start video preview by selecting menu Image Capture gt Preview move the ruler or camera to make sure the lines are approximately aligned in preview and snap an image by selecting menu Image Capture gt Capture Image Select menu Calibration gt Manual calibration hold down the mouse and drag from one line to another line with known and adequate separation distance and then release mouse File View Presoen Calration Capture GecMexiure HE Help ana u e A um Image fate 1I80XD004 Calibration loaded GANU Hem Alignment Tone Eh A dialog will prompt user for the known physical distance between the dragged start and end lines and a name for the calibration After the manual calibration 1s done system will prompt user whether to load the done calibration or not In any case user can
16. interface will appear Draw the standard geometric shapes on the image and their measurement results will be displayed on the data table on the right and on the shapes for some shape types User may edit a shape by click selecting the shape and mouse dragging on one of its control points and the corresponding measurement results will be automatically updated Vision 10 0 Camera image y gt dns File View Preprocess Calibration Capture GeoMeasure HB Help Bo won A Geometry Measurement Results Distance Ange Diameter Width Mesght Ares 132 312 3493 2219885 77394 236109 Image Size 640448 Calibration loaded 640430_MiESempleCabbration Alignment Zoom A Jj E 3 3 2 Image Processing Select menu Preprocess and its sub menus to access the image processing tools 3 3 3 Document Entry Push on the Add text A tool button or select Add text sub menu under GeoMeasure then click on the image enter text at the small text entry box To edit the text or to enter complex HTML format documents double click on the text to invoke the document editor Vision 1 0 0 Edit jes Te Jem some text to start with rertaioonent Canas text ype ma ES 5 E I User s Manual Page 3 13 3 0 Getting Started To edit the text in HTML format select HTML on Text type To insert table list or image click on the tool buttons at the right bottom The tool buttons to change font text color and text alignment lie
17. rder to get quantitative geometry measurement e g indentation diameter from the camera image it is necessary to calibrate the camera to obtain the conversion from pixel locations to their object physical locations There are two ways to calibrate the camera in the HB hardness measurement User s Manual Page 3 4 3 0 Getting Started 1 Calibration with a calibration sample with known HB value If no calibration is done and loaded in the system then the system can derive the calibration based on the first measurement and the user input of the known HB value of the sample Open iVision go to the tab Settings at the lower right on the HB measurement GUI make sure the High Resolution Measurement is unchecked since the calibration will be based on the normal resolution Test Parameters Ball Diameter Force Settings H Foz 30 v BallDiameter 10 mm Force 29411 8 Alarm Upper Lower Limits HB Lower Limit 120 Operator Auto Measurement Image Processing Parameters Smooth Aperture Radius 1 Auto measure method Edge v Parameter 1 100 Min diameter ratio 0 2 u Max diameter ratio 08 7 Min central X ratio 0 1 Max central X ratio 0 9 Min central Y ratio 0 1 Max central Y ratio 0 9 oa Sample test parameter set up go to the tab Settings in the lower right click on the Test Settings o button to bring up the HB Measurement Settings dialog select F D2 and the testing Ball Diameter of the sample and the indentation
18. redistributable package since 1Vision is developed with MSVC 2 1Vision software platform 3 USB camera driver and its DirectShow driver 4 1Vision HB application modules including the main HB automatic measurement module 2 2 Installation Instructions Double click the installer file 1Vision_v1 0 0_WIN32_XP_TZXXXXXX_installer exe to start the installation process and answer Yes at all the prompts in the camera driver installation where TZXXXXXX is the USB license key ID Note to change the drive in installation directory if other than the default D drive Also note that if installation error message II Camera 02 DirectX registration failed shows up in the installation process then it is necessary to manually register the camera DirectX driver after the installation process by running double clicking the reg bat in the iVision installation folder D Intelligent Instruments 1Vision_v1 0 0 Drivers II_Camera_02 DirectX User s Manual Page 2 2 3 0 Getting Started 3 0 GETTING STARTED User s Manual 3 0 Getting Started 3 0 GETTING STARTED 3 1 Camera Setup It is necessary to set up the USB camera for the system at the first time use and these steps can be totally skipped at later use 3 1 1 Camera driver installation When the USB camera is plugged in at the first time use after 1Vision HB is installed depending on the computer operation system the computer may ask to install the camera driver either manually or
19. rement by major minor axes applies mouse press on one end of the indentation major axis and drag to the other end and then do the same on the minor axis After the user input of the HB value the system is calibrated and ready for use Note the formula to calculate HB is HB 2 X F 1 XD X D D DAA where F is the test force in Kg Dy is the indenter ball diameter in mm and D is the indentation diameter in mm Whio 100 Camera preview File View Prepress Chban E HB Auto Measurement un tu No calibration is loaded Enter the known HB of the indentation Test peana J cms mega Gae SDUB Calibration not labdid Alignment FE Taere EL aj Note If user wants to unload the calibration to make the system go back to the un calibrated state select menu Calibration gt Calibration viewer to bring up the calibration selection dialog and click the Unload button Calibrated Item Pixel Unit i Calibration Type Last 4 640X480 HBSam 61 0848 M Sun AFE 60 6021 Sat inn Goes gt nme unos Diss Current Calibration Loaded 640X480_HBSampleCalibration Re calibrate with sample average For better accuracy the system allows user to re calibrate with the average of the HB values from calibration sample To do so measure HB values on multiple indentations on the same sample to get the average click on the Re calibrate with sample av
20. t while the right one has to be detected by Edge User needs to select this Auto measurement method in the settings depending on the camera lighting and sample surface conditions User s Manual Page 3 9 3 0 Getting Started 3 2 4 Measurement 1 2 3 4 Auto measurement Click on the Video Preview Ba button to start video preview and click on the Auto Measure QO button to automatically measure the hardness HB For convenience after video preview is started system allows user to toggle video preview and auto measurement by pressing a keyboard key except the ESC key and the Delete key or by pressing the camera snapshot button To exit the keyboard key toggle mode press the ESC key For small indentations lt 2 5mm user may check the High Resolution Measurement under Settings tab and the camera will switch to high resolution mode for measurement with better accuracy If there are multiple indentations appearing on the same video preview or on the same image user can Late a sua select and measure First take the snapshot clicking the Snap Image a button 1f in previewing drag the mouse to select the area on the image that contains the indentation then click the Auto Measure Q button to automatically find and measure the HB of that indentation A O F TE a En Pee ar SA iter SE He Note that with the camera Digital microscope sometimes when switching between high resolution and
21. tes the HB hardness value The indentation diameters can range from less than Imm up to 6mm For small indentations with diameter less than 2mm the system provides a second camera optional with higher magnification for better measurement accuracy The system also allows convenient manual measurement or the correction on the automatic measurement results 1 3 2 Camera calibration 1Vision software provides two methods in calibrating the camera 1 Calibration with a standard sample with known HB value 2 Calibration on a calibration ruler or grid 1 3 3 Hardness conversion The measured HB value can be converted to the other hardness scales such as HV HR etc 1 3 4 Statistics Statistical values such as average standard deviation Cp Cpk etc are automatically generated and off the limit values are automatically marked User s Manual Page 1 2 1 0 General Information 1 3 5 Reporting With a mouse click 1Vision software automatically generates a Microsoft Word or Excel document that reports the measurement data statistical information and the measurement image The Word or Excel document template can be customized to user s requirements 1 4 Standard Features 1 4 1 Geometric Measurement System provides the tools to draw and measure common geometric shapes such as lines angles 4 point angles for missing or hidden vertexes rectangles circles ellipses and polygons Note that the measurement assumes the system 1s cali
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