Table of Contents
6 Introduction
6.3 What's inside and accessories........................................................................................31
6.3.1 Accessories for the mvBlueFOX3..........................................................................31
7 Quickstart......................................................................................................................................33
7.1 Driver concept.................................................................................................................33
7.1.1 LabVIEW support...................................................................................................35
7.2 Windows.........................................................................................................................35
7.2.1 System requirements.............................................................................................35
7.2.2 Installing the mvGenTL-Acquire driver...................................................................35
7.2.3 Connecting the camera..........................................................................................38
7.3 Linux...............................................................................................................................39
7.3.1 System requirements.............................................................................................39
7.3.2 Installing the mvGenTL-Acquire driver...................................................................40
7.3.3 Connecting the camera..........................................................................................41
7.3.4 Defining udev rules................................................................................................41
7.3.5 Optimizing USB performance.................................................................................42
7.4 Relationship between driver, firmware, FPGA file and user settings..............................45
7.5 Settings behaviour during startup...................................................................................48
8 Technical data...............................................................................................................................51
8.1 Dimensions.....................................................................................................................51
8.1.1 Standard model......................................................................................................51
8.1.2 Standard model -2xxx............................................................................................52
8.1.3 Model without housing (-M1)..................................................................................54
8.1.4 Model without housing (-M2)..................................................................................55
8.2 Camera interfaces...........................................................................................................56
8.2.1 Circular connector male (Power / Digital I/O).........................................................56
8.2.2 Characteristics of the digital inputs........................................................................58
8.2.3 Characteristics of the digital outputs......................................................................59
8.3 Status / Power LED.........................................................................................................59
8.3.1 Standard model......................................................................................................59
8.3.2 Standard model -2xxx............................................................................................60
8.4 Components....................................................................................................................60
9 Sensor overview...........................................................................................................................61
9.1 Image data flow...............................................................................................................61
9.2 Output sequence of color sensors (RGB Bayer).............................................................61
9.3 CMOS sensors................................................................................................................62
9.3.1 Details of operation................................................................................................62
9.3.2 Models....................................................................................................................64
9.4 Supported image formats................................................................................................65
10 Filters and Lenses......................................................................................................................67
10.1 Hot mirror filter..............................................................................................................67
10.2 Cold mirror filter............................................................................................................67
10.3 Glass filter.....................................................................................................................68
10.4 Lenses..........................................................................................................................68
11 GUI...............................................................................................................................................69
11.1 wxPropView..................................................................................................................69
11.1.1 How to work with wxPropView.............................................................................69
11.1.2 How to configure a device....................................................................................86
11.2 mvDeviceConfigure.......................................................................................................93
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