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GigE Large Area Scan Industrial Camera

User Manual

V1.0.0

Dahua Technology Co., Ltd.

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Page 1: ...GigE Large Area Scan Industrial Camera User Manual V1 0 0 Dahua Technology Co Ltd ...

Page 2: ...ymbol Description Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which if not avoided could result in death or serious injury Indicates a moderate or low level of potential danger which if not avoided could result in minor or moderate injury Indicates a potential risk that if ignored could result in damage to device loss of data degraded performance or unpredictable results It can help you solve a pr...

Page 3: ...which is to avoid liquid flowing into the device Please install the device in a location with good ventilation do not block the ventilation opening of the device Use the device only within the rated input and output range Please do not dismantle the device at will Please transport use and store the device within the allowable range of humidity and temperature Please connect the product with I stru...

Page 4: ...etwork Port Electrical Specifications 12 2 3 2 IO Port Electrical Specification 12 2 4 Indicator Light Description 13 3 Product Installation 15 3 1 Hardware Installation 15 3 1 1 Default Accessories 15 3 1 2 Camera Installation 15 3 2 Software Installation 16 4 Network Settings 18 5 Main Function Description 24 5 1 Device Control 25 5 2 ImageFormatControl 27 5 3 AcquisitionControl 29 5 4 DigitalIO...

Page 5: ...100m 256MB on board frame buffer for image data transmission Supports software trigger external trigger mixed mode free run mode Supports sharpness noise reduction gamma correction LUT black level correction brightness contrast and other ISP functions The color camera supports interpolation algorithm white balance algorithm color conversion matrix hue and saturation etc Supports a variety of outpu...

Page 6: ... Area Scan Camera Sensor Sensor Model PYTHON 12K Sensor Type CMOS Mono Color Mono Color Shutter Global Resolution 4096 3072 Pixel Size μm 4 5 4 5 Sensor Size 4 3 Bit Depth 8 10 Frame Rate 160 Image Dynamic Range 59dB Signal to Noise Ratio SNR 41dB Gain X1 X6 Exposure Time 1μS 1S Image Format Mono Mono8 10 10p Color Mono8 BayerRG8 10 10p BayerRB8 10 10p RGB8p YUV422p Physical Interface Data Interfa...

Page 7: ...Technical Parameters 5000 Series 12MP GigE Mono Color Area Scan Camera Sensor Sensor Model PYTHON 25K Sensor Type CMOS Mono Color Mono Color Shutter Global Resolution 5120 5120 Pixel Size μm 4 5 4 5 Sensor Size APS H Bit Depth 8 10 Frame Rate 80 Image Dynamic Range 59dB Signal to Noise Ratio SNR 41dB Gain X1 X6 Exposure Time 1μS 1S Image Format Mono Mono8 10 10p Color Mono8 BayerRG8 10 10p BayerRB...

Page 8: ...E Vision V2 0 and GenICam Software MV Viewer or GenICam and GigE Vision supported devices 1 5 Spectral Curve The following spectral curve data are derived from the manual of the selected chip Figure 1 2 PYTHON 25K Mono Color Spectral Response 1 6 Environmental Requirements The following are the environmental requirements for GigE area scan industrial camera Temperature and humidity Ambient tempera...

Page 9: ... Operating ambient humidity 20 80 no condensation Storage temperature 30 80 Storage humidity 20 80 no condensation Please install the device in a stable location indoors with enough heat dissipation space Please keep certain ventilation ...

Page 10: ...iption 2 1 Product Dimensions The product dimensions are as follows Figure 2 1 76mm 76mm 46mm Unit mm 2 2 Interface Description The back of the device has two interfaces the network interface and 12pin power as well as I O ...

Page 11: ...tegory 6 cable in order to ensure the transmission quality as well as to prevent too much data retransmission and packet loss phenomenon 2 2 2 12pin Power and I O Interface Sheet 2 1 lists the pin signal definition of the I O interface Sheet 2 1 Pin Signal Definition Pin Signal Description 1 Power Ground Power ground of the camera 2 Power The camera power 3 RXD RS232 Serial receiving 4 TXD RS232 S...

Page 12: ...m of 26 AWG cable EMS Standard Electrostatic discharge GBT17626 2 IEC61000 4 2 Metal cover contact 6kV Surge IEC61000 4 5 Power port 1kV common mode 1 2 50us EMC Standard Class B 1 Power supply must conform to SELV and LPS certification 2 3 2 IO Port Electrical Specification 2 3 2 1 Opto isolated Input Sheet 2 3 Opto isolated Input Input Voltage Description DC 30V Limit voltage input voltage shoul...

Page 13: ...e should not exceed this limit otherwise it will cause damage to the device DC 3 3V I O output may be wrong DC 3 3V 24V I O output safe operating voltage range The max continuous current of isolated I O output is 50mA Figure 2 4 Opto isolated Output Circuit 2 4 Indicator Light Description The indicator light description of the device is shown in Sheet 2 5 ...

Page 14: ...ness The application software API is connected to the device free mode no image transmission Blue light quick flashing The application software API is connected to the device free mode with image transmission Blue light slow flashing Use trigger mode Red Blue Red and blue light alternate flashing Firmware upgrading Abnormal Red Red light normally on Device abnormity such as no stream firmware upgr...

Page 15: ...ce and ESD Electro Static Discharge protection design but for security the installation environment and methods should be concerned to avoid or reduce these effects Please pay attention to basic protection methods shown below Use SSTP shielded network cable If the operation requirement is satisfied please do not over request the flexibility of the cable because that in order to achieve a good soft...

Page 16: ...pation Under the condition of a stable condition temperature and humidity air flow installation location etc the camera will reach a temperature balance in 1 or 1 5 hours which means that the cover temperature will not rise any longer It is important to ensure the cover temperature beyond 50 and there is a temperature difference of 25 between inner main heat source and outside cover in this balanc...

Page 17: ...17 Figure 3 1 Installation Completion ...

Page 18: ...ell connected with cables the application installed can detect the online camera The camera can operate normally when the camera IP and the local computer IP are on the same network segment The detailed steps for network settings are as follows Step1 Open software Double click desktop shortcut open client software The software will auto detect all the online devices the interface is shown in Figur...

Page 19: ... same network segment of the local computer IP as is shown in Figure 4 2 Click to save the settings after accomplishment Figure 4 2 IP Address Setting Step3 Device connection Click to connect the device Click after successful connection the device interface and property interface are shown in Figure 4 3 and Figure 4 4 respectively You can click to disconnect the device ...

Page 20: ...sful Device Connection Device Interface Figure 4 4 Successful Device Connection Property Interface Sheet 4 1 Parameter Description No Parameter Description 1 Please refer to Sheet 4 2 for more details about the menu column ...

Page 21: ...he current image which includes video stream image stream display stream image location gray level and RGB color value etc 5 It is to play the adjustment toolbar of the image Play Button You can click according to your needs and select play mode of continuous single frame and multi frame in the drop down list Only when the image is paused can you switch the play mode in the drop down list Stop but...

Page 22: ... out a dialogue box of Open to open it It is not convenient to search if there are so many files You can click button of File Type on the right and select a specific file format in the drop down menu such as mvcfg The dialogue box will only display the file of this format which is to narrow search range It can implement corresponding operations only when the image is paused or stopped Open recent ...

Page 23: ...cache parameter of video stream data It can implement corresponding operations only when the image is paused or stopped Display frame rate It is to display the frame rate of current image Display block data It is to display the total frame quantity acquired in the current trigger mode Restore default parameter It is to restore the default config of the menu bar Save GenICamXML Save GenICam protoco...

Page 24: ... three user levels which are Beginner Expert and Guru The parameter items in corresponding property interface of each level are slightly different Please refer to No 9 in Sheet 4 1 for user level selection The parameter items displayed in black indicate that the parameter can be changed or set The parameter items displayed in gray indicate that the parameter does not support change or setting in t...

Page 25: ...ransformation Sharpness Hue Saturation Mono Y Y Bayer Y Y RGBxxx Y Y N N N YUVxxx Y Y Y Y Y Disable Function Set LUTEnable to False Select ColorTransformationSelector as RGBtoRGB and set ColorTransformationEnable to False Set SharpnessEnabled to Off Set HUE to 50 Set Saturation to 50 Format Denoising Contrast DigitalShift Brightness Mono Y Y Y Y Bayer Y Y Y Y RGBxxx N N Y Y YUVxxx Y Y Y Y Disable ...

Page 26: ...nfo DeviceVersion Device version including updated date and SVN number in the bracket DeviceFirmwareVersion Device firmware version including updated date and SVN number in the bracket and the number following the semicolon represents the hardware version DeviceSerialNumber Device serial number DeviceUserID User programmable device identifier DeviceTLType The protocol type used by the camera trans...

Page 27: ...he camera by calling API DeviceTemperatureSelector Select to view the temperature of sensor board mainboard DeviceTemperature The actual temperature of sensor board mainboard DeviceRegisterIsBigEndian Endian of the registers of the device big endian little endian The default is big endian DeviceTLVersionSelector Select the compatible version of the device transport layer The GigE camera supports s...

Page 28: ...width pixels Height The actual output image height pixels OffsetX The horizontal offset of the image from the top left The max value is determined by the Width value OffsetY The vertical offset of the image from the top left The max value is determined by the Width value ReverseX Flip the image horizontally based on the original size of the sensor but not the image after ROI ReverseY Flip the imag...

Page 29: ...image output format Only the color camera has this property PixelDynamicRangeMin The min image pixel brightness PixelDynamicRangeMax The max image pixel brightness TestImageSelector Selects the test image type Disable TestImage1 Static Image or TestImage2 Dynamic Image The test image is not an actual image and is used for testing purposes only Decimation Output Image Decimation Type X for Horizont...

Page 30: ...itionFrameCount and stops to capture frames automatically when finished Continue acquires frames continuously until an Acquisition Stop signal is given to stop to capture frames AcquisitionStart SDK starts stops to capture frames AcquisitionStop AcquisitionFrameCount Number of frames to acquire It is invalid to change this parameter when image acquisition mode is SingleFrame or Continue You can se...

Page 31: ...r and lineN HardwareTrigger When you select SoftwareTrigger click or call API in TriggerSoftware to generate software trigger When you select lineN set RisingEdge or FallingEdge in TriggerActivation then the external cable generates a rising or falling signal to achieve hardware trigger You can separately select trigger source for AcquisitionStart and FrameStart TriggerSource TriggerActivation Tri...

Page 32: ...brightness The modified value is displayed in gray in ExposureTime ResultingframeRateAbs The max frame rate the camera can achieve The max frame rate the camera can achieve depends on the network transmission bandwidth pixel size resolution and exposure time The camera default exposure time takes precedence which means that when the exposure time is greater than the reciprocal of the frame rate th...

Page 33: ... the waiting signal for frame trigger Timer0Active outputs the signal when the Timer0 counts up UserOutput0 outputs the value user set in Userset0 AcquisitionTriggerWait outputs the waiting signal for acquisition trigger LightTrigger outputs the light trigger signal Output 1 means the opto coupler is on 0 means off LineFormat Shows whether the currently selected IO line supports opto coupler isola...

Page 34: ... Sets whether to notify the upper layer software after selecting the event type ON is for notifying OFF for not notifying 5 6 AnalogControl In this property you can adjust the acquired analog signals including gain black balance white balance and gamma correction etc as shown in Figure 5 6 please refer to Sheet 5 7 for detailed parameter settings Figure 5 6 Analog Control Sheet 5 7 Analog Control ...

Page 35: ...ure a more accurate black level when the temperature is constant BlackLevel BlackLevelAuto BalanceRatioSelector Selects Red Green or Blue channel to set white balance Adjusts the image color through adjusting R G B in order to achieve a highest color reproduction When BalanceRatioSelector is set as Off it represents manual white balance mode User can manually set Red Green Blue channel values in B...

Page 36: ...eet 5 8 LUT Control Parameter Explanation Parameter Explanation LUTSelector Selects the channel of LUT Currently only Luminance brightness Look Up Table is supported LUTEnable LUT setting 1 Enables LUT for LUT lookup table function 2 Sets digital points of the lookup table in LUTIndex with range of 0 4095 3 When LUTIndex is selected you can set corresponding values in LUTValue LUTIndex LUTValue LU...

Page 37: ...37 Figure 5 8 Transport Layer Control ...

Page 38: ...ssion negotiated by the given logical link GevMACAddress MAC address of the device GevCurrentIPconfigurationLLA Enables LLA function Selects True in GevCurrentIPconfigurationLLA and the IP address will be in LLA mode after the device is powered on GevCurrentIPconfigurationDHCP Enables DHCP function Selects True in GevCurrentIPconfigurationDHCP and the IP address will be in DHCP mode after the devi...

Page 39: ...tentDefaultGateway Sets the persistent IP default gateway of the device GevMessageChannelCount Displays the number of message channels supported by this device GevStreamChannelCount Displays the number of stream channels supported by this device GevHeartbeatTimeout Sets the heartbeat timeout period GevTimestampTickFrequency Defines the tick frequency of the timestamp GevTimestampControlLatch Latch...

Page 40: ... the message channel GevStreamChannelSelector Selects the stream channel number when the camera supports multiple stream channels GevSCPinterfaceIndex Displays the logical channel number corresponding to the device GevSCPHostPort The source port used by the camera stream channel GevSCPSFireTestPacket Sends a test packet GevSCPSDoNotFragment The state of this feature is copied into the do not fragm...

Page 41: ...Load restores the camera configuration to the configuration that user selected UserSetSave saves the current configuration to the selected series but the Default series does not support saving UserSetLoad UserSetSave UserSetDefault Default user set when the power is on UserSet1 and UserSet2 need to execute UserSetSave before display UserSetLoadLastUserSet The last user configuration the user used ...

Page 42: ...orTransformationValueSelector Selects enhancement coefficients ColorTransformationValue Sets enhancement coefficients 5 11 CounterAndTimerControl In this property the counter can divide the frequency of the external input trigger signal and execute exposure control according to the user s logic as shown in Figure 5 11 please refer to Sheet 5 12 for detailed parameter settings Please set TriggerSou...

Page 43: ... The selected counter used for software reset TimerSelector Selects the counter needs to configure The default is Timer0 TimerTriggerSource Selects the trigger source of the start timer The default is ExposureStart TimerTriggerActivation Selects the trigger mode of the start timer RisingEdge FallingEdge or AnyEdge TimerDelay Sets start timer delay when receiving the trigger μs TimerDuration Sets t...

Page 44: ...e value the higher the saturation the more colorful the image Only the color camera has this property DenoisingMode Selects the denoising mode When Disable is selected no denoising process is performed When Bilateral is selected it uses Bilateral algorithm to denoise Denoising When Bilateral is selected the level of denoising can be set DigitalShift Adjusts DigitalShift The brightness can be doubl...

Page 45: ...ent 2 Application can discover the camera but connection failed Reason analysis The camera fails to boot up normally The device IP is not added to the same network segment of the PC IP Another client has been connected to the camera Solutions Reboot the camera try to change IP in order to add the device IP to the same network segment of the PC IP or disconnect the other client that has been connec...

Page 46: ...elect correct trigger mode and make sure external connection is correct 5 The image is reverse when the client software checks image Reason analysis The installation direction is wrong during device installation Solutions You can correct the image via Condition Image Format Control Reverse X horizontal flip or Reverse Y vertical flip in the client software ...

Page 47: ...or The color camera is equipped with a low pass filter that cuts off to the near infrared band If you have special requirements such as not using a color filter or using another light transmitting filter you can replace the entire filter mount of the image sensor no need of removing the cover If the surface of the filter needs to clean We recommend using the special cleaning agent for optical devi...

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