Connector Class Reference

A class describing how a video signal source(e.g. More...

Inheritance diagram for Connector:

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

Properties
	cameraOutputUsed = property(lib_mvIMPACT_acquire.Connector_cameraOutputUsed_get, doc=)
	An enumerated integer property defining the video signal output of the video signal source used for the connection to the video signal sink.
	pinDescription = property(lib_mvIMPACT_acquire.Connector_pinDescription_get, doc=)
	A string property (read-only) containing a description for the video channel currently selected by the property mvIMPACT.acquire.Connector.videoChannel.
	thisown = property(lambda x: x.this.own(), lambda x, v: x.this.own(v), doc="The membership flag")
	videoChannel = property(lib_mvIMPACT_acquire.Connector_videoChannel_get, doc=)
	An integer property containing the video channel the camera belonging to the current setting is connected to.

Detailed Description

A class describing how a video signal source(e.g.

a camera or image sensor) is connected to a video signal sink(e.g. a frame grabber)(Device specific interface layout only). With an instance of this class the user can define on which input channels the video signal source used for this setting is connected to the video signal sink and how(in which format) the video signal source transmits its data.

Video signal source and video signal sink can both belong to the same physical piece of hardware. This e.g. might apply to a digital camera that doesn't need a frame grabber (e.g. a GigE Vision™, USB3 Vision™ or USB camera). In such a scenario certain properties belonging to this class might be read-only or may only allow a single enumeration value.

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.Connector 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 ComponentCollection.

Property Documentation

cameraOutputUsed

cameraOutputUsed = property(lib_mvIMPACT_acquire.Connector_cameraOutputUsed_get, doc=)

static

An enumerated integer property defining the video signal output of the video signal source used for the connection to the video signal sink.

Note

Not every video signal sink will support every possible value defined for this property. For example a CameraLink® frame grabber will not offer to use an SVideo connector. Therefore the translation dictionary of this property should be used to find out, which connector types are available.

Valid values for this property may be: mvIMPACT.acquire.coUndefined, mvIMPACT.acquire.coAuto, mvIMPACT.acquire.coComposite, mvIMPACT.acquire.coBase, mvIMPACT.acquire.coDigital, mvIMPACT.acquire.coSVideo, mvIMPACT.acquire.coMedium, mvIMPACT.acquire.coRGB, mvIMPACT.acquire.co2xComposite, mvIMPACT.acquire.co3xComposite, mvIMPACT.acquire.co4xComposite, mvIMPACT.acquire.coFull, mvIMPACT.acquire.coSDSDI, mvIMPACT.acquire.coHDSDI, mvIMPACT.acquire.co3GSDI.

Note

This property might not be supported by every device. Therefore always call the function mvIMPACT.acquire.Component.isValid to check if this property is available or not.

pinDescription

pinDescription = property(lib_mvIMPACT_acquire.Connector_pinDescription_get, doc=)

static

A string property (read-only) containing a description for the video channel currently selected by the property mvIMPACT.acquire.Connector.videoChannel.

The description string contains information about the connector pins belonging to this video input of the video signal sink as well as the corresponding name of this video input.

Note

This property might not be supported by every device. Therefore always call the function mvIMPACT.acquire.Component.isValid to check if this property is available or not.

thisown

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

static

videoChannel

videoChannel = property(lib_mvIMPACT_acquire.Connector_videoChannel_get, doc=)

static

An integer property containing the video channel the camera belonging to the current setting is connected to.

The maximum possible video channel might change when the property mvIMPACT.acquire.Connector.cameraOutputUsed is modified as the different ways to transmit a video signal require more or less video input channels. While e.g. a composite video signal can be transmitted via a single wire, an RGB signal requires either 3 or 4 wires (depending on whether the sync. signal is transmitted on a separate wire or not).

The first channel will always have the number 0. The limits (max/min values) can be queried by calling the function mvIMPACT.acquire.PropertyI.getMinValue or mvIMPACT.acquire.PropertyI.getMaxValue.

Note

This property might not be supported by every device. Therefore always call the function mvIMPACT.acquire.Component.isValid to check if this property is available or not.