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Smart Features
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part of the added data. The GUIDs are especially useful when you enable several smart features
that add data to the image stream. The GUIDs make it possible to identify which portion of the
added data is the result of each enabled smart feature. Refer to Sections
6.6 and 6.7 for detailed
information about getting smart features results.
6.3 What do I Need to Use Smart Features
To use smart features you will need:
• A camera that supports smart features. Not all camera models support smart features. And
with some camera models that do support smart features, you may find that older cameras
may not support all available smart features or may not support smart features at all. Section
6.5 contains information about checking a camera to see if it supports smart features.
• A method of accessing the camera’s DCAM register structure. We strongly recommend that
you use the Basler BCAM 1394 Driver (v1.7 or higher) along with the Basler Smart Features
Framework software to access the registers. (See Section
6.4 for more information about the
SFF Software.)
6.4 What is the Smart Features Framework Software?
A Smart Features Framework Software (SFF Software) package is available from Basler. The
SFF Software has two major components:
• An SFF Viewer. The viewer is a Windows
®
based tool that allows you to easily enable and
disable smart features, parameterize the camera, capture and view images, and view smart
features results.
• An SFF Tutorial. The tutorial explains how to access the cameras smart features from within
your own applications. The tutorial is based on the assumption that you are using the Basler
BCAM 1394 driver with your camera.
The SFF software package is available for download at the Basler web site. To download the
software, go to:
http://www.baslerweb.com/popups/popup_en_1825.php
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We strongly recommend that you use the Basler BCAM 1394 driver. However, any
driver that can get images in format 7 and that provides access to the DCAM registers
can be used to work with smart features. If you do use a different driver, you can
adapt the access techniques described in the SFF Software tutorial (see Section
6.4 )
to the driver you are using.
You should be aware that drivers other than the Basler BCAM driver have not been
tested with smart features.
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The SFF Viewer will only work on PCs that have the BCAM driver v1.7 or higher in-
stalled.