Visionscape® 4.1 Firmware
Visionscape®
Overview
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• Custom processing options
• Custom measurements and custom scripted tools
Setup and Runtime
When working with Visionscape
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applications, you access the
Visionscape
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Vision hardware in one of two modes:
• In Setup mode, the setup objects control the hardware. You can train
and tryout tools and debug your vision application.
• In Runtime mode, you download your vision applications to the
runtime hardware objects for full speed operations. The runtime
objects control the hardware, and the setup objects cannot be used to
edit the Job. You can start and stop vision inspections at runtime, as
well as receive inspection results and runtime images.
Note: Setup and Runtime modes are mutually exclusive. That is, only one
mode can control a vision system.
Visionscape
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4.1 Firmware
Note: If you open a Visionscape
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V4.0 Job using Visionscape
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V4.1, the
Job automatically becomes a V4.1 Job, even if no changes are made to
the Job.
You can monitor, but not program, a V4.0 Job on a VS-1 Smart Camera
with FrontRunner™. Also, you can upload a V4.0 Job and save it to your
PC, at which time it becomes a V4.1 Job.
The IntelliFind™ Tool
IntelliFind™ is a very capable and robust object locator tool that is
invariant to many changes in the images, such as contrast, intensity
variation, scale, translation, rotation, noise, and occlusion. IntelliFind™
allows a feature or object to be found, and it can significantly reduce the