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Camera Operation Overview
Revision 1.1
Phoenix PC-1280 USB Digital Camera User’s Guide
3.1 Using the PhoenixView DEMO & Utility
There are 6 main menu items from the PhoenixView, they are File,
Capture, Adjust, Trig/Exp, Test and Help. This section will give a
brief description on their usage. On-line help is also available for
the user.
File Menu
Camera ID
The user can select a camera instance from the Camera Configure
sub-menu and assign a unique Camera ID (CID) to that camera.
The CID value must be between 0 ~ 255. The CID can then be used
to physically identify a camera.
Capture Menu
Capture Mode
The user can select Single Capture, Continuous Capture or Se-
quence Capture Mode from the Capture pull down menu. Capture
in an ROI can also be defined (a single rectangle area) and enabled
(combined with any of the three capture modes).
Sequence Capture
A Sequence Capture Dialog Box pops up when this Capture Mode
is selected. The user can specify the total number of frames desired
and the intervals (in terms of frame time) on this dialog box. Then
the sequence capture can be started and stopped by clicking the but-
tons. Once the capture is completed, the total number of frames
captured is shown.
The user can now play back the just captured frame sequence for
viewing.
Display Mode
DirectDraw or DIB modes can be selected from the Capture pull
down menu. The default display mode is DirectDraw. Only the
YUV Pixel Format is supported when this mode is selected. In DIB
Mode, the Monochrome 8 bit Pixel Format is used.
Capture Interval
For Continuous Capture Mode, the capture interval can be set by
this Dialog Box. The interval is in terms of a frames of time. If the
user selected 0, the capture will go at maximum speed.
Adjust Menu