Creating a New Job to Acquire Images
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Getting Started With Visionscape® Smart Camera
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Select the step named “Acquire”. After you select the Acquire step, the right
hand side of the editor will display the various parameters and settings that
can be modified. Of immediate interest is
Exposure Time
. You can click on
the spreadsheet cell with the current Exposure Time value to change it.
Reducing the exposure time will darken the image, while increasing it will
make the image brighter.
So far, the Job you are manipulating exists only on the PC. You are using the
Job in “Setup Mode”, which allows you to create, edit, and debug Jobs on
the PC.
8.
To transfer the Job to the camera, click
If you want the Job to be non-volatile (still be loaded on the camera when it
is rebooted), then click
9.
Now that there is a Job loaded onto the camera, start it by clicking
This will switch FrontRunner™ to a runtime display which, in the case of
this example, will simply display the image, as shown in Figure 1–8.