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Video Camera

Instruction Manual

2 Megapixel Progressive Scan Monochrome Camera

FC2600CL

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Table of Contents

Features ······························································································ 3

Outline ································································································· 3

Description of Each Component ······························································· 4

How to Operate ····················································································· 7

Various Settings ··················································································· 12

Various setting via serial communication ··················································· 15

Serial Communication Command ····························································· 27

Timing Chart ························································································ 34

Notes ································································································· 41

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Specifications ······················································································· 42

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External Dimensions ············································································· 43

TAKENAKA SYSTEM CO., LTD

Document No.: K12703
FC2600CL Instruction Manual (3rd version)

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Page 1: ...the camera properly Keep this manual at hand and reread it whenever you are uncertain about the operation Table of Contents 1 Features 3 2 Outline 3 3 Description of Each Component 4 4 How to Operate 7 5 Various Settings 12 6 Various setting via serial communication 15 7 Serial Communication Command 27 8 Timing Chart 34 9 Notes 41 10 Specifications 42 11 External Dimensions 43 TAKENAKA SYSTEM CO L...

Page 2: ...the pixel defect 2012 07 03 K12703 Description of special remarks used in this manual Note Particulars which require the user s attention are explained Particulars which require the user s close attention in terms of comparison with the conventional products are explained Terminology Terms specifically defined for the purpose of describing the operation of this camera are explained Explanation Par...

Page 3: ...cessary via serial communication link 2 Outline Image sensor Imaging area size Number of pixels Pixel size CCD Image sensor Monochrome Color 10 56mm 5 94mm Diagonal 12 1mm 1920 H 1080 V 5 5μm H 5 5μm V Effective pixels 2 07 megapixels CCD output system QUAD DUAL SINGLE Read out scanning Horizontal 36 0 kHz 36 0 kHz 18 8 kHz Vertical 62 7 Hz 31 4 Hz 16 4 Hz Clock 40 0 MHz Electronic shutter 1 25000...

Page 4: ... HRS HR10A 7R 6PB The pin arrangement of the Camera connector 6 pins and the signals assigned to those pins are shown in the following table Pin No Signal name Description I O 1 GND 0V Power ground 2 IC 3 GND Signal ground 4 Vinit1 Input for external trigger In 5 STRB Strobe signal output Out 6 12VDC DC power input Do not assign any signals to the IC pins because they are occupied internally Fig 2...

Page 5: ...o Signal name Twin ax cable assignment 1 inner shield shield 14 inner shield shield 2 Y0 PAIR1 15 Y 0 PAIR1 3 Y 1 PAIR2 16 Y 1 PAIR2 4 Y 2 PAIR3 17 Y 2 PAIR3 5 Y clk PAIR4 18 Y clk PAIR4 6 Y 3 PAIR5 19 Y 3 PAIR5 7 terminated PAIR6 20 100Ω PAIR6 8 Z0 PAIR7 21 Z0 PAIR7 9 Z1 PAIR8 22 Z1 PAIR8 10 Z2 PAIR9 23 Z2 PAIR9 11 Zclk PAIR10 24 Zclk PAIR10 12 Z3 PAIR11 25 Z3 PAIR11 13 inner shield shield 26 inn...

Page 6: ...8 bit TAP1 TAP2 TAP3 TAP4 Camera signal name A0 B0 C0 D0 D00 0 Lowermost data A1 B1 C1 D1 D01 0 A2 B2 C2 D2 D02 0 A3 B3 C3 D3 D03 0 A4 B4 C4 D4 D04 0 A5 B5 C5 D5 D05 0 A6 B6 C6 D6 D06 0 A7 B7 C7 D7 D07 0 Uppermost data at the time of 8 bit scale capturing Unused output Fixed to L level 10bit TAP1 TAP2 TAP3 TAP4 Camera signal name A0 C0 E0 D0 D00 0 Lowermost data A1 C1 E1 D1 D01 0 A2 C2 E2 D2 D02 0...

Page 7: ...ed while the power is supplied troubles may be caused Note Make sure to turn off the camera and connected devices in advance when the camera is connected Note When a power supply unit other than Takenaka s camera power supply units that are separately sold is used make sure that it complies with the following rated specifications Power supply voltage DC12V 10 Current capacity 900mA or over recomme...

Page 8: ...pulse width control mode Where PWC ENABLED shutter switch 9 nH Tvinit n 1 H n is 1 or larger integer This is the pulse width where shutter exposure time nH Fig 4 3 Vinit signal timing Note In the pulse width control the shutter exposure time is almost equal to the integral multiple number of the horizontal synchronous time H that is closest to the Vinit pulse duration More specifically however the...

Page 9: ...alid time for exposure The occurrence of smear is reduced because no light enters any time other than the exposure time periods Note When the strobe signal is used in the continuous shutter mode to make ON OFF control on a lighting source unit the following must be taken into consideration Wherever possible use a strobe lighting unit or others that are equipped with a power source separated from t...

Page 10: ...ction is not for the ambient temperature but the internal temperature of the camera As a general rule the internal temperature of the camera is higher than the ambient temperature because of the heat generation associated with the consumed electric power inside the camera Even when the temperature monitored by this function exceeds the value of the Operation ambient temperature shown in the specif...

Page 11: ...he screen Then the right left upper and lower output may differ in level as the four output characteristics are not exactly the same This equipment has the automatic correction function to reduce and obscure the level difference at the boundary The factory default of this function is OFF It can also correct the level difference manually deactivating the automatic correction function Depending stat...

Page 12: ...xternal trigger input Vinit is released Exposure time can be set as nH n 1 or larger integer number in H horizontal synchronous time unit Table 5 4 Other operation mode Scanning system Normal scan The readout for each frame is conducted by the all pixel readout scanning Terminology Preset shutter This refers to the shutter speed setting other than those specified by the pulse width control More sp...

Page 13: ...present the horizontal time unit and the vertical time frame duration unit respectively Note No shutter in the table means the continuous shutter mode with exposure time 1 frame duration Note The value of the each shutter speed is the factory default value The shutter speed of each position excluding shutter position 0 is possible to change by the user with serial communication command As for this...

Page 14: ...CD element is not a failure arising from the camera To eliminate this phenomenon reduce the amount of light by stopping down the lens and newly set a higher gain value Then the output signal from the CCD element at the saturating area will be appropriately saturated into a white level for the output Note The above described unnatural image represents the following states Black and white look inver...

Page 15: ... Designation of shutter switch position It can be changed to the shutter speed prescribed in Table 5 5 Setting value of shutter speed by designating the shutter switch set value This corresponds to the method of changing the shutter switch on the rear panel of the conventional camera Command WSSW Function Command for writing the shutter switch set value Write Shutter Switch Transmission from host ...

Page 16: ...9 of the shutter speed regardless of the current shutter switch position displayed as SS in OSD menu This set value can be saved separately into the program page A to F Command S Function Command for setting the shutter mode and the shutter exposure time Shutter Transmission from host STX S 1 2 3 exposure time ETX Return by camera STX ACK set value ETX transaction completion or STX NAK ETX transac...

Page 17: ...e Mode Switch if it is needed to save the set contents into EEPROM Example To set the mode switch to C Transmit as follows Transmission from host STX WMSW C ETX Right figure shows the example of transmitting the command using FCTool The mode switch is set to C Command RMSW Function Command for reading out the mode switch set value Read Mode Switch Transmission from host STX RMSW ETX Return by came...

Page 18: ...tire image in SINGLE of the left half image in DUAL and of the upper left image in QUAD and are also the base value for the another part For example The Gain of lower right image in QUAD is controlled by MGC set value MGCD correction value and the Offset is controlled by OFFSET set value OFFSETD correction value Therefore the entire GAIN and OFFSET can be changed by changing MGC set value and OFFS...

Page 19: ...00 0000 0000 representing the current status of the registers Each numerical value is displayed in hexadecimal system And each part represents the set contents of configuration register CR H configuration register CR L and flag register FR from left Table 6 1 Contents of CR L Bit Abbrev Contents Logic Remarks 0 MNI Disabled display of menu screen 1 Disabled OFF 1 BZI Disabled buzzer output 1 Disab...

Page 20: ...page memory A to F before turning the power off Also set items of CR are stored on the nonvolatile memory inside the camera by executing SMC command Save Mode Configuration after changing Note that the changes in either setting are not saved when turning the power off without saving onto nonvolatile memory and the set contents return to those before setting change at the next power on Note CR is a...

Page 21: ...d WMF Function Command for writing on the flag register Write Mode Flag Transmission from host STX WMF set value ETX Return by camera STX ACK ETX transaction completion or STX NAK ETX transaction rejection set value four characters in hexadecimal is written on FR Note This command does not execute the writing in EEPROM and the setting by this command is lost when the power is turned off To save th...

Page 22: ... in specified page A to F Command LA to LF Function Command for loading reading out program page Load from page memory A to F Transmission from host STX L A to F ETX Return by camera STX ACK ETX transaction completion or STX NAK ETX transaction rejection The set values of program page A to F which are saved in nonvolatile ROM area are loaded and reflected in the current operation Position of mode ...

Page 23: ...of the menu display is done using the serial communication command ON OFF switching procedure Set CR_L 0 bit 0 of configuration flag to 1 OFF or 0 ON following the procedure below Read out the current CR_L data Transmit the command RMCL and acquire the return data Refer to 6 5 Example Right figure shows the example of transmitting the command using the direct command input of TAKENAKA s communicat...

Page 24: ...her high speed HIGH or low speed LOW SCAN The current scanning system is displayed It is either all pixel readout scan NORMAL or partial readout scan PARTIAL MENU2 Displayed contents PWC Whether the position 9 of the shutter switch for the asynchronous shutter operation is used ENABLED or not used DISABLED is selected DUMP Whether the Fast dump operation for the asynchronous shutter operation is u...

Page 25: ...nds Display of ID information The ID code and other information set by the user for each camera can be stored in the camera The setting is executed through the serial communication The settable maximum number of characters are 15 and alphabets both upper and lower cases numbers and some special symbols such as and excluding the control codes can be used Set ID code can be confirmed as it is displa...

Page 26: ...d value of shutter speed H 0000 none specified Electric shutter table Contents of table 5 5 Configuration item Stored in common area Configuration register CR H CR H H 0001 Configuration register CR L CR L H 2008 Hypothetical shutter switch 0 Hypothetical mode switch A ID data Blank Vsub voltage set value Factory default Note Factory default is the adjusted value for each camera The procedure for ...

Page 27: ...mories when the power is turned on next time Initialization here means restoring the parameter values stored in the internal EEPROM of the camera to the factory default values 2 Command eCLR Function Cancellation of request of initialization of page memory Transmission from host STX eCLR ETX Return by camera STX ACK ETX transaction completion or STX NAK ETX transaction rejection The command for ca...

Page 28: ... STX NAK ETX transaction rejection The transmitting command has the following meanings STX S A or M H or L N Exposure time ETX 1 2 3 4 1 A Asynchronous shutter M Continuous shutter 2 H High speed shutter L Low speed shutter 3 N Normal scan 4 Exposure time The format of Exposure time complies with one of the followings a 4 characters corresponding to the hexadecimal which represents 2 byte number b...

Page 29: ...s is written in the configuration register H or L Note This command does not execute the writing in EEPROM and the setting by this command is lost when the power is turned off To save the setting value in EEPROM use another command SMC 14 Command WMF Function Command for writing in mode flag register FR Write Mode Flag Transmission from host STX WMF flag set value ETX Return by camera STX ACK ETX ...

Page 30: ...ition to n Write Shutter SW Transmission from host STX WSSW Position No n 1 character ETX Return by camera STX ACK ETX transaction completion or STX NAK ETX transaction rejection 24 Command SSSW Function Command for saving hypothetical shutter switch position Save Shutter SW Transmission from host STX SSSW ETX Return by camera STX ACK ETX transaction completion or STX NAK ETX transaction rejection...

Page 31: ... command of SID 28 Command SID Function Command for saving camera ID set by user Save ID Transmission from host STX SID ETX Return by camera STX ACK ETX transaction completion or STX NAK ETX transaction rejection The data of the current ID code is saved in EEPROM Note The ID code character string is saved in an area independent from the program pages and this common value one numerical number is a...

Page 32: ...LC 1 SHOT_C to Clear the correction value 1 ALC 1 SHOT_O to Determine the Offset correction value Automatic termination 2 ALC 1 SHOT_G to Determine the Gain correction value Automatic termination 3 to Determine the ALC target level 36 Command RALC Function Command for reading ALC Read ALC Transmission from host STX RALC ETX Return by camera STX ACK RALC ALC flag Target level Upper left Target leve...

Page 33: ... code in hexadecimal 0 to FF 0 to 255 decimal Usually it is automatically set by ALC command 3 then transmit Target shift is set in 2 digit ASCII code in hexadecimal C0 to 3F 64 to 63 decimal It can shift the target value of right and left images Set it to side when it is required to brighten the image during automatic correction and to side when it is required to darken the image Transmit unless ...

Page 34: ...oard the equal definition file to that of the conventional parallel output type can be used for capturing Note When a channel link device is mounted directly to the capture interface on the user side instead of using a commercially available capture board that supports Camera Link it is necessary to pay close attention to the descriptions of the data sheet of the channel link device including the ...

Page 35: ...ve pixels 1920 ＨＤ Internal signal Di g it a l im a ge ou tp u t Ｔａｐ１２ＬＤＶ 1 2 3 19 1 9 2 0 1112 DUA L 2124 SIN GLE Effective pixels 1920 1 2 3 1 9 2 0 Ｔａｐ３４ Effective pixels 1920 Di g it a l im a ge ou tp u t Ｔａｐ１２ 1 2 3 29 1 9 2 0 ＤＵＡＬ Effective pixels 1920 Di g it a l im a ge ou tp u t Ｔａｐ１ 1 2 3 56 1 9 2 0 ＳＩＮＧＬＥ 10 40 10 40 ＱＵＡＤ W i th o ut s o rt i ng ＤＵＡＬＳＩＮＧＬＥ V i ...

Page 36: ...lines 1080 1079 542 1078 1077 3 4 1 2 1080 1079 Horizontal sync signal ＨＣＦＤＶＬＤＶ 2L 1080L 1080 1 2 1080 1079 1078 1077 3 4 Effective pixels Exposure ｍ 540 539 541 542 Exposure ｍ１ Exposure ｍ Digfita output Tap1 2 ＦＤＶＬＤＶ 1 ５４０ 540 1 2 540 539 Exposure ｍ 540 Digital output Tap3 4 1080 1079 541 542 Exposure ｍ１ 1 1080 ５４０ 540 540 539 Exposure ｍ１ 540 541 542 Exposure ｍ１ QUAD Without sorting QUAD W...

Page 37: ... ＳＩＮＧＬＥ 3 ＤＵＡＬ Di gi t al ou t pu t T ap 1 １ 1 08 0 1 08 0 1 2 1080 1079 E ff e ct i ve pi x el s Exposure ｍ１ 1 1 08 0 Exposure ｍ１ 1080 1079 1 0 8 0 E f fe c t iv e p i xe l s 33 ＳＩＮＧＬＥ 3 2 3 2 The period of LDV is indefinite It varies depending on shutter operation mode Refer to the Horizontal timing chart for details H reset in asynchronous shutter mode End of Exposure ＳＧ Start of...

Page 38: ...al output Tap1 2 ＦＤＶＬＤＶ 1 ５４０ 540 1 2 540 539 Effective pixels Exposure period ｎＨ 540 Digital output Tap3 4 1080 1079 541 542 Effective pixels Exposure period ｎＨ QUAD With sorting QUAD Without sorting 3 33 33L 288 Ｖｉｎｉｔ１２５４０ＯＢ２０ Effective lines Vertical sync signal ＶＤＳＴＲＢ QUAD DUAL 29μ秒 SINGLE 54μ秒ＢＵＳＹ After VD Internal vertical sync signal reached at L level the image is output at the same...

Page 39: ...ference with same Vinit signal Shutter time 2Hs Shutter time 3Hs 1 2 3 2 1 1 Because of the above reason consideration must be given to the fact that the exposure time becomes indefinite for the period of 1H shutter exposure time when a Vinit signal that is not in synchronization with the internal horizontal synchronous signal HD is input from the user side Some of the countermeasures to be taken ...

Page 40: ...2 Possible to make by the meter in the 1m to 25m range 5 m 6P12G 05 10 m 6P12G 10 Tripod attachment The mounting bracket for tripod screw Product name Type Remarks Tripod attachment AT400 Refer to the figure below for the external dimensions 11 11 42 25 0 5 0 5 34 4 5 36 3 2 4 4 3 7 2 M 6 D e p t h 7 1 4 2 0 U N C D e p t h 7 Fig 9 1 External dimensions of Tripod attachment ...

Page 41: ...rruption change in data loss of data etc resulting from the user s use of this equipment or performance failure The specifications and operational details described in the catalogues manuals and others are subject to change for performance improvement or other reasons without notice Countermeasure for time degradation of image sensor Pixel defect on image sensor Fixing screw for the camera Importa...

Page 42: ...D 40 0MHz 4tap 10or8bit output Medium 31fps DUAL 40 0MHz 2tap 10or8bit output Base 16fps SINGLE 40 0MHz 1tap 10or8bit output Base External sync input Internal synchronization only Electronic shutter 1 25000sec to 1 62 sec no shutter 62fps QUAD 1 25000sec to 1 31 sec no shutter 31fps DUAL 1 15000sec to 1 16 sec no shutter 16fps SINGLE Asynchronous shutter Preset fixed shutter pulse width control Sc...

Page 43: ... 6 φ 3 0 42 2 6 C mount 2 M3 Depth5 2X2 M3 Depth6 13 1 32 UN 2 0 4 Same as top side 2X2 M3 Depth5 Right and left sides VIEW ＡＡ Do not insert Fixing screw more than 4mm in depth it may cause the failure MEDIUM POWER BASE Fig 12 1 FC2600CL External views ...

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