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Video acquisition in Dewesoft X

video acquisition module offers the possibility to acquire video signals together with other sources. A wide range of

cameras are supported:

Low-speed cameras (up to 30 FPS): any DirectX compatible camera
Medium speed cameras (up to 600 FPS VGA resolution): Dewesoft

DS-CAM

cameras

High-speed cameras (up to 20.000 FPS at VGA resolution): where we combine data and video in post-processing or directly
use the Photron driver inside

Dewesoft X

(please consult the user's manual for details)

Thermovision cameras: Optris thermovision cameras

Required hardware

Sirius, Dewe-43, Webcam, DS-CAM

Required software

Prof (for DS-CAM support)

Setup sample rate

At least 1 kHz

[Video available in the online version]

Summary of Contents for CAM-BOX

Page 2: ...up to 600 FPS VGA resolution Dewesoft DS CAM cameras High speed cameras up to 20 000 FPS at VGA resolution where we combine data and video in post processing or directly use the Photron driver inside Dewesoft X please consult the user s manual for details Thermovision cameras Optris thermovision cameras Required hardware Sirius Dewe 43 Webcam DS CAM Required software Prof for DS CAM support Setup ...

Page 3: ...tunning correlation between each frame and the data Thermo cameras are supported by Optris and Ultra High Speed cameras from Photron can acquire more than 2 million frames per second but in limited resolution Video available in the online version DS CAM 88c DS CAM 120c gigabit ethernet camera A DS CAM 88 has the following specifications resolution 640x480 at 88 fps 320x240 at 167 fps 160x120 at 28...

Page 4: ...white balance color DS CAM 175chas the following specifications 1456x1088 at 68 fps 640x480 VGA at 178 fps DS CAM 320chas the following specifications 728x544 at 266 fps 640x480 VGA at 328 fps DS CAM 600m DS CAM 600c DS CAM 600cw gigabit ethernet camera Specifications full HD resolution 1920x1080 real time onboard JPEG compression 3 ...

Page 5: ... Ethernet port is required The system requirements for GigE cameras are Gigabit Ethernet LAN port Dewesoft X Clock possibility Core2Duo CPU The applications at which the cameras are used machine diagnostic product quality check non destructive testing research and development automotive crash testing impact tests logistics and transportation manufacturing Specifications If you have multiple DS CAM...

Page 6: ...d CAM BOX2 Distribution box for connecting up to 4 x DS CAM 88 120 to the Dewesoft instrument Wide range power supply input 9 36 VDC integrated GigE switch CAM BOX3 Distribution box for connecting up to 4 x DS CAM 600 to the Dewesoft instrument Wide range power supply input 9 36 VDC integrated GigE switch with 4 x PoE SIRIUS chassis with 1 5 U height 5 ...

Page 7: ...limited to using our own DS CAM cameras Dewesoft X software supports all compatible Direct X cameras as well as 3rd party Optris thermal and Ultra High Speed cameras from Photron See the complete list of supported cameras All camera sources are synchronized to analog data 6 ...

Page 8: ...d introduced in 2006 provides a framework for transmitting high speed video and related control over Ethernet networks The benefits are high speed data transfer rates up to 1GBit s based on 1000Base T connectable to every standard GigE Ethernet port and cable lengths up to 100m Dewesoft uses OptoStream SDK for GigE communication with cameras that support the GigE Vision standard Important For best...

Page 9: ...auto white balance color correction edge filter sharpness hue sat auto white balance color correction edge filter sharpness hue sat Max frame rate at full resolution 88 fps 120 fps Power Supply voltage 8 to 30 VDC 8 to 30 VDC Power consumption 3 6 W 12 VDC 3 7 W 12 VDC Power over ethernet optional optional Trigger input Voltage level representing logical 0 0 0 1 0 V DC Undefined state between 0 an...

Page 10: ...RJ45 EIAJ Hirose 12 pin matching part Hirose HR10A 10P 12S 73 Conformity CE FCC Class B RoHS GigE Vision GenICam Connections On the rear side of the camera there are two connectors The 12pin HIROSE connector matching part Hirose HR10A 10P 12S 73 contains the power trigger and other digital pins Ethernet connector pinout according to the standard Power trigger connector pinout 12pin Hirose connecto...

Page 11: ...rated PC on the bottom and one SIRIUS slice on top from the rear side The camera is directly connected to the Gigabit LAN port The second cable to the camera contains the power from SBOX Power out and the trigger connected to the SYNC port of the SIRIUS slice The camera frames are now in perfect sync with the analog data acquired by Dewesoft Note Even if the camera is connected syncing to other SI...

Page 12: ... range voltage input 9 36V an industrial Gigabit Ethernet Switch without Power over Ethernet No supply for DS CAM 600 Power and Sync distribution for up to 4 cameras Small dimensions 115 x 62 mm front and 135 mm deep Camerabox connector mating cable connector FGG 1B 307CLAD52 Power supply mating cable connector FGJ 1B 302CLLD42Z 11 ...

Page 13: ...Sync connector mating cable connector FGG 00 304CLAD27Z Connections overview 12 ...

Page 14: ...eras connected over CAM BOX2 SBOX 128GB SSD max 190 Mbyte s write rate CPU Intel Core i7 QM57 2 0GHz 4GB RAM camera s clocked by SIRIUS Dewesoft X OptoMotive OptoStreamSDK GigE Camera driver Plugin storing data to file video buffer stable around 0 1 with checked optimize for switched network Achieved frame rates fps 13 ...

Page 15: ...80 88 90 320 240 165 195 320 120 280 210 4 640 480 88 60 320 240 165 195 320 120 280 210 Results FPS should be considered only as approximate MAX values Writing speed of disk may be limiting factor we used SSD We recommend testing cameras with your setup at about 0 8 max FPS and higher to find where corrupted image frame lost or buffer overrun will occur 14 ...

Page 16: ...ndard introduced in 2006 provides a framework for transmitting high speed video and related control over Ethernet networks The benefits are high speed data transfer rates up to 1GBit s based on 1000Base T connectable to every standard GigE Ethernet port and cable lengths up to 100m Dewesoft uses OptoStream GigE SDK for communication with cameras that support GigE Vision standard Important For best...

Page 17: ... rate at full resolution 175 fps 320 fps Power DS CAM 175c DS CAM 320c Supply voltage 8 to 30 VDC or 802 3af PoE 8 to 30 VDC or 802 3af PoE Power consumption 2 79 W 12 VDC 3 26 W PoE 2 77 W 12 VDC 3 23W PoE Trigger input Voltage level representing logical 0 0 0 1 0 V DC Undefined state between 0 and 1 1 0 3 0 V DC Voltage level representing logical 1 3 0 24 0 V DC Absolute maximum voltage above Ã ...

Page 18: ...et connector pinout according to the standard Power trigger connector pinout 12pin Hirose connector matching part Hirose HR10A 10P 12S 73 on camera rear side PIN SIGNAL 1 GND for Power and RS232 2 Power 8 30 V DC 3 4 Camera In 1 TRIGGER 5 6 Camera Out 1 open emitter max 20 mA 7 Camera In GND 8 RxD RS232 9 TxD RS232 10 Camera Out Power for digital outputs 11 Camera In 2 12 Camera Out 2 17 ...

Page 19: ...ra frames are now in perfect sync with the analog data acquired by Dewesoft Note Even if the camera is connected syncing to other SIRIUS devices is still possible because there are different pins used on the SYNC port for triggering synching Connecting multiple cameras If you need to connect more than one camera there is a special CAM BOX2 available which consists of wide range voltage input 9 36V...

Page 20: ...Camerabox connector mating cable connector FGG 1B 307CLAD52 Power supply mating cable connector FGJ 1B 302CLLD42Z Sync connector mating cable connector FGG 00 304CLAD27Z 19 ...

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Page 22: ...on The standard introduced in 2006 provides a framework for transmitting high speed video and related control over Ethernet networks The benefits are high speed data transfer rates up to 1GBit s based on 1000Base T connectible to every standard GigE Ethernet port and cable lengths up to 100m Dewesoft uses OptoMotive GigE SDK for communication with cameras that support the GigE Vision standard Impo...

Page 23: ... 5 5 x 5 5 Pixel data format JPEG Dynamic range 60 dB Shutter Electronic Global Shutter Shutter time 210 ns 90 s Exposure Linear 3Slope High Dynamic Range Scanning system Progressive Max frame rate at 640x480 specified for 600 in fact 748 are possible ADC bit depth 10 bit Mechanical External dimensions H x W x L 94 x 54 x 58 mm incl C Mount lense holder Housing Black anodized aluminum case Weight ...

Page 24: ...IRIUS device consisting of an S BOX unit integrated PC on the bottom and one SIRIUS slice on top from rear side The camera is powered via PoE Power over Ethernet via LAN connector therefore a Power injector is required Gigabit LAN port of computer PoE injector camera The second cable provides the trigger connected to the SYNC port of the SIRIUS slice The camera frames are now in perfect sync with ...

Page 25: ...cameras with your setup at about 0 8 max_FPS and higher to find where corrupted image frame lost or buffer overrun will occur RESOLUTION ACTIVE PIXELS MAX FRAMERATE Full frame 4 2M 2048 x 2048 N A Full frame 2 2M 2048 x 1088 333 fps 2K 2048 x 1080 336 fps HD 1080 1920 x 1080 336 fps SXGA 1280 x 1024 355 fps XGA 1024 x 768 471 fps HD 720 1280 x 720 502 fps SVGA 800 x 600 600 fps PAL 768 x 576 625 f...

Page 26: ... installer again select Modify and reinstall the option If there is no option to add GigE run the Dewesoft installer once again choose Modify Dewesoft and select the option GigE camera under the Extension section The last Dewesoft X full installer can be downloaded from the following webpage GigE driver OptoStream and GigE manual You can also find the newest version of the GigE driver for Dewesoft...

Page 27: ...cal area connection properties Note that filter driver filters out all packages that are not GigE on the hardware level so the camera will work much faster than without the filter Connect the camera to the PC via Ethernet cable and PoE power injector in between The DS CAM supports DHCP so just set your computer s IP address to automatic and wait until the IP is assigned To test if the camera is wo...

Page 28: ...ft exe with the one that you downloaded Start Dewesoft X and go to Settings Devices For triggered mode when Dewesoft X is clocking the camera check if your device is set to Standalone or Clock Trigger Go to the video tab GigE and check the Use trigger checkbox File types for storing should be set to DVI which is the uncompressed Dewesoft X video format The CPU will not have 27 ...

Page 29: ...r the measurement set the appropriate compressor in AVI file type for compression We recommend downloading the XVID codec In Analysis mode you can then select your datafile and click AVI compress Go to Channel setup click the Video button and enable the video channel change the Unused to Used Enter the channel setup a picture should be shown 28 ...

Page 30: ...ncrease the dynamic from 60dB up to 120dB if you have an image with a low dynamic range e g only light grey and dark shapes To improve the performance if using the camera on and ethernet switch use Optimize for switched network Use the Advanced setup if you want to change a specific parameter of the camera such as the custom resolution HINT If you change the frame rate after typing the value the i...

Page 31: ... plugin is not found in Dewesoft Issue In 2 7 0 0 driver Optomotive does not run file hard link to GigEVisionSDK_32bit_dll bat during installation Solution So it needs to be done manually run CMD as Admin and run the file from the folder Program files OptoMotive GigeVisionSDK bin When this is done Dewesoft normally recognizes the GigE plugin No picture shown No frames receivederror If you receive ...

Page 32: ...as the computer example IP Subnet PC 192 168 1 100 255 255 255 0 Camera 192 168 1 101 255 255 255 0 The IP is ok if the cameras are found with a red mark close OptoStream viewer and start Dewesoft X OptoStream viewer does not start error message when starting You can get it working by doing the following Check if the operating system of your computer is 32bit or 64bit Copy the 64 bit dll s otherwi...

Page 33: ...lso check if you really have a Gigabit Ethernet network card not only 100Mbit s Check if the LAN cable is at least of CAT5 quality if you have longer cable lengths it should be even better For this camera the main improvement can be done by using an SSD disk writing speed about 100 150 Mbyte s One camera at 640x480 120fps takes about 35MByte s multiply the value with the number of cameras used Dis...

Page 34: ...Cam video buffer It should stay stable at low values 33 ...

Page 35: ...Testing 6 cameras DS CAM 600 34 ...

Page 36: ...hard disks and a very well built system as we might still run to the limit of performance We have to know that the typical VGA size image takes 300 kB If we have 100 frames per second we need to store 30 MB s for one camera Clearly if we want to make a high speed video we need to use either DS CAM 120 or DS CAM 600 DS CAM 120 has a slightly higher speed 120 FPS in VGA DS CAM 600 compresses the pic...

Page 37: ...How to connect a Webcam We connect the webcam to our computer via USB cable Video available in the online version 36 ...

Page 38: ...nel Go to the Video section In the Camera options section where the webcam should be displayed if it is installed correctly Click the Unused button to switch on the camera turn it into Used and end setup with the Setup button Video available in the online version 37 ...

Page 39: ...ve two camera types connected DirectX which recognizes webcams and camera phones and GigE In the setup screen of Dewesoft X we see all connected cameras We select needed cameras First we set up the camera We set the frame rate to and resolution The next step is to set the shutter speed Higher shutter speeds will reduce the smearing of picture with fast movements but will also reduce the brightness...

Page 40: ...ve different compression types like YUV or I420 This means that each pixel will not have 24 bits of data 8 bits of data per color but less In short using such modes will result in smaller picture sizes and will reduce the data file size in the end but the colors might not be as perfect as with RGB uncompressed However the human eye is much more sensitive to scales of gray than to shades of colors ...

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Page 42: ...ll Because the webcam is neither clocked nor synchronized with analog data it is time stamped as the picture comes into the computer Therefore we can see the switch off with a delay of approximately 60 ms In conclusion webcams have two limitations speed and time accuracy However there is a way to reduce the timing inaccuracy by entering a camera delay Usually this delay is quite constant and can b...

Page 43: ...hile the DS CAM camera shows quite a several frames to be able to also see the spark the movement of the coil and the switch This solution however is limited to 600 frames per second Some events require much faster cameras These cameras store the picture in internal memory and after that to the video file so we need to combine the picture and video in post processing 42 ...

Page 44: ...lect the video file that you want to import Double click on the file to open it and Dewesoft X will recognize that this file has no synchronization information included and will ask to synchronize it manually It will automatically recognize how many frames are stored in the file Please enter the correct Frame rate of the camera sometimes the avi files hold the correct values but most of the time n...

Page 45: ...sult of the synchronization and the recorder will show the video frame ticks aligned with the analog data You can go back and forth with the yellow cursor to observe the quality of the synchronization If you need to realign the video please select menu item Post sync Here you can change the parameters Also there is the option to select the start of the video from the current position In this case ...

Page 46: ...In order to store the synchronization info for future post processing once you are done and satisfied don t forget to choose Save 45 ...

Page 47: ... an additional light source The example below shows a PHOTRON camera connected over Ethernet and a DEWE 43 connected over USB to the notebook The accelerometer blue cable is used to measure the hit of the fingertip this is also the trigger The camera puts out a start pulse on the TRIG_TTL_OUT port which is measured back on one of the Counter inputs of the DEWE 43 In the photo below you can see the...

Page 48: ...e enter Camera IP reset factory default In case you have troubles connecting to the camera you can try to set it to factory default by the following routine Press and hold the RESET switch at the cameraÃ â â s backside All of the LEDs on the camera s back sidelight then they turn off sequentially from right to left In the end all LEDs together blink twice then stay on This takes several seconds ho...

Page 49: ...de Dewesoft Dewesoft does the synchronization based on the first frame captured by the camera In the Photron FASTCAM Viewer please go to Camera Option and increase the pulse output time from 100 nsec default to 100 usec in order to guarantee a proper triggering under any circumstances 48 ...

Page 50: ... Addons folder e g C DewesoftX X3 Addons64 This file contains the interface type and IP address of the camera please set it accordingly Enabling the camera In Dewesoft X go to Settings Settings Devices click the add button and add the Photron FastCam The Photron FastCam camera is successfully found 49 ...

Page 51: ...er Store on Dewesoft trigger This is the most commonly used wiring The software triggers even on complex trigger conditions on analog input and sends the start impulse over Ethernet The camera sends a pulse when the first frame is recorded this is measured back with the very accurate Dewesoft super counters 102 MHz timebase for synchronization 50 ...

Page 52: ... on the framerate measurement duration and camera onboard memory the acquisition time is limited Store on Dewesoft trigger example For connection example we want to acquire both analog and video data of a hit of an accelerometer with the fingertip The analog input sampling rate we set to 200 kS s this does not affect the 102 MHz counter sampling rate We enter the channel setup to get a preview of ...

Page 53: ...nt Counting by default which is ok Please enable the button on the left of e g CNT2 IN0 The trigger setup looks like shown below We select fast on trigger rising edge with a level of 1g The pre time is 100ms post time 500ms Dewesoft supports complex trigger conditions such as simple edge filtered edge window pulse width slope delta amplitude as well as any logical combination on any analog digital...

Page 54: ...tc Here you can set Resolution Frame rate Shutter speed and Sensor gain if the camera supports hardware sensor gain parameters You can also calibrate the camera sensor here The options depend on the camera model in use and also from each other For example if you increase the frame rate the shutter time will be limited The camera settings are applied to the camera as soon as something is changed so...

Page 55: ...he camera is started over Ethernet depending on system load and operating system there will be a delay to the storing trigger This is usually around 50 100ms in the example below around 70ms red line Therefore we have to set the camera buffer a little bit higher to capture the whole time window 54 ...

Page 56: ...will not be optimal when other frame rates are selected If you do not have these files or factory calibration data is not satisfying or for any other reason the picture is grainy and or contains fixed shading pattern you have to calibrate the sensor to get a better picture You can do that by selecting Calibrate camera sensor from Custom setup and press the Set button The Calibrate camera window wi...

Page 57: ...t noticeable delay however it is only accessing the camera onboard memory If you have verified the data to be good you can finally download the video file to the computer This can take from minutes to hours depending on the file size Example data file The example below shows the explosion of the firecracker 56 ...

Page 58: ...Frequently asked questions Camera not detected in PFV Camera model type not checked in PFV device list 57 ...

Page 59: ...e List Now it will search for all of them Try connecting multiple times Sometimes when connecting with PFV the camera is not found in the first place Please try again several times Network troubles Disable Windows firewall disable anti virus check IP reset the camera to factory defaults 58 ...

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