CameraSettingsBase Class Reference

A base class for camera related settings(Device specific interface layout only). More...

Inheritance diagram for CameraSettingsBase:

Public Member Functions
	__init__ (self, *args)
	Constructs a new mvIMPACT.acquire.CameraSettingsBase object.

Properties
	pixelFormat = property(lib_mvIMPACT_acquire.CameraSettingsBase_pixelFormat_get, doc=)
	An enumerated integer property defining the pixel format used to transfer the image data into the target systems host memory.
	thisown = property(lambda x: x.this.own(), lambda x, v: x.this.own(v), doc="The membership flag")

Detailed Description

A base class for camera related settings(Device specific interface layout only).

This class acts as a base class for camera related settings. It only contains settings that are available for almost every device!

Note

This class will only be available if mvIMPACT.acquire.Device.interfaceLayout is set to mvIMPACT.acquire.dilDeviceSpecific before the device is opened.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

__init__()

__init__	(		self,
		*	args )

Constructs a new mvIMPACT.acquire.CameraSettingsBase object.

Parameters

pDev	[in] A pointer to a mvIMPACT.acquire.Device object obtained from a mvIMPACT.acquire.DeviceManager object.
settingName	[in] The name of the driver internal setting to access with this instance. A list of valid setting names can be obtained by a call to mvIMPACT.acquire.FunctionInterface.getAvailableSettings, new settings can be created with the function mvIMPACT.acquire.FunctionInterface.createSetting

Reimplemented from BasicDeviceSettingsWithAOI.

Reimplemented in CameraSettingsVirtualDevice, CameraSettingsBlueDevice, CameraSettingsBlueFOX, CameraSettingsBlueCOUGAR, and CameraSettingsFrameGrabber.

Property Documentation

pixelFormat

pixelFormat = property(lib_mvIMPACT_acquire.CameraSettingsBase_pixelFormat_get, doc=)

static

An enumerated integer property defining the pixel format used to transfer the image data into the target systems host memory.

Support for this property has been added in version 1.11.0 of Impact Acquire thus old driver versions will raise an exception if an application accesses the property without checking if the property is present.

By default this property will be set to mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfAuto. This will result in the previous driver behaviour where depending on the various post processing steps that are enabled or disabled the driver will decide which transfer format will be used. However sometimes this could result in a transfer format, which is not ideal for the application (e.g. when a post processing step of the application needs RGBx888Packed but the systems bandwidth is limited the application might want to transfer the data in YUV422 packed and then use the fast format conversion algorithm in the driver). This can be achieved by explicitly setting mvIMPACT.acquire.CameraSettingsBase.pixelFormat to mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfYUV422Packed and mvIMPACT.acquire.ImageDestination.pixelFormat to mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfRGBx888Packed.

Note

Selecting a defined transfer format can in some cases result in certain filters (e.g. dark current, ...) to be switched of as then the filters themselves can no longer influence the transfer format, which is sometimes necessary as not every filter does support every input format. Also this property will contain only pixel formats, which are actually supported by the capture device, thus in most of the cases this will be a subset of the pixel formats defined by the enumeration defining this property.

Valid values for this property may be: mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfRaw, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfMono8, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfMono16, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfRGBx888Packed, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfYUV422Packed, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfRGBx888Planar, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfMono10, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfMono12, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfMono14, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfRGB888Packed, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfYUV444Planar, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfMono32, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfYUV422Planar, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfRGB101010Packed, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfRGB121212Packed, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfRGB141414Packed, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfRGB161616Packed, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfYUV422_UYVYPacked, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfMono12Packed_V2, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfYUV422_10Packed, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfYUV422_UYVY_10Packed, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfBGR888Packed, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfBGR101010Packed_V2, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfYUV444_UYVPacked, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfYUV444_UYV_10Packed, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfYUV444Packed, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfYUV444_10Packed, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfMono12Packed_V1, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfYUV411_UYYVYY_Packed, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfRGB888Planar, mvIMPACT.acquire.ibpfAuto.

thisown

thisown = property(lambda x: x.this.own(), lambda x, v: x.this.own(v), doc="The membership flag")

static