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ArduCAM USB Camera Shield User Manual

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ArduCAM USB Camera Shield
User Guide
Rev 1.0, April 2017
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 2
2 Hardware Installation ............................................................................................................. 2
2.1 Primary Camera Interface ............................................................................................. 2
2.2 Secondary Camera Interface ......................................................................................... 3
3 Device Driver Installation ....................................................................................................... 4
4 Demo Code ............................................................................................................................... 7
4.1 Camera Settings .............................................................................................................. 8
4.2 Open the Camera ............................................................................................................ 8
4.3 Play the Video ................................ .................................................................................. 8
4.4 Stop the Video .................................................................................................................. 8
4.5 Take a Snapshot ............................................................................................................... 8
4.6 Sensor Register Read/Write ........................................................................................... 8
4.7 RAW Mode Selection ...................................................................................................... 9
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1 Introduction
This user guide describes the detail operation of ArduCAM USB camera. The latest deivce driver, SDK library and examples can be downloaded from the
https://github.com/ArduCAM/ArduCAM_USB_Camera_Shield.
2 Hardware Installation
There are two different camera interface provided on the USB camera shield, but only one camera interface can be used at a time.
2.1 Primary Camera Interface
The primary camera interface is used for 18-22 pin camera breakout board, and should align the pin 1 of the camera breakout board to the USB camera shield camera connector pin 1.
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Pin No.
PIN NAME
TYPE
DESCRIPTION
1
VCC
POWER
3.3v Power supply
2
GND
Ground
Power ground
3
SCL
Input
Two-Wire Serial Interface Clock
4
SDA(SDATA)
Bi-directional
Two-Wire Serial Interface Data I/O
5
VS(VSYNC)
Input
Active High: Frame Valid; indicates active frame
6
HS(HREF)
Input
Active High: Line/Data Valid; indicates active pixels
7
PCLK
Input
Pixel Clock output from sensor
8
XCLK
Output
Master Clock into Sensor
9
D7
Input
Pixel Data Output 7 (MSB)
10
D6
Input
Pixel Data Output 6
11
D5
Input
Pixel Data Output 5
12
D4
Input
Pixel Data Output 4
13
D3
Input
Pixel Data Output 3
14
D2
Input
Pixel Data Output 2
15
D1
Input
Pixel Data Output 1
16
D0
Input
Pixel Data Output 0(LSB)
17 NC
18 NC
19 NC
20 NC
21 NC
22
Trigger(EXP)
Output
External trigger output
Table 1 P1 Connector Pin Definition
2.2 Secondary Camera Interface
The secondary camera interface is used for camera breakout board with 30pin ribbon cable.
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Pin No.
PIN NAME
TYPE
DESCRIPTION
1
GND
Ground
Power ground
2
FLASH
Input
Flash output control
3
Trigger
Output
Exposure synchronization input
4
VSYNC
Input
Active High: Frame Valid; indicates active frame
5
HREF
Input
Active High: Line/Data Valid; indicates active pixels
6
DOUT11
Input
Pixel Data Output 11 (MSB)
7
DOUT10
Input
Pixel Data Output 10
8
DOUT9
Input
Pixel Data Output 9
9
DOUT8
Input
Pixel Data Output 8
10
DOUT7
Input
Pixel Data Output 7
11
DOUT6
Input
Pixel Data Output 6
12
DOUT5
Input
Pixel Data Output 5
13
GND
Ground
Power ground
14
DOUT4
Input
Pixel Data Output 4
15
DOUT3
Input
Pixel Data Output 3
16
DOUT2
Input
Pixel Data Output 2
17
DOUT1
Input
Pixel Data Output 1
18
DOUT0
Input
Pixel Data Output 0(LSB)
19
XCLK
Output
Master Clock into Sensor
20
PCLK
Input
Pixel Clock output from sensor
21
SCL
Input
Two-Wire Serial Interface Clock
22
SDATA
Bi-directional
Two-Wire Serial Interface Data I/O
23
RST
Output
Sensor reset signal, active low
24
GND
Ground
Power ground
25
GND
Ground
Power ground
26
STANDBY
Output
Standby-mode enable pin (active HIGH)
27~30
VCC
POWER
3.3v Power supply
Table 2 HDC1 Connector Pin Definition
The firmware update jumper should be left open when normal operation.
3 Device Driver Installation
Please download the device driver from github. The Windows device driver is located in Drivers folder, Windows 10 operating system can use the same driver as Win7 or Win8. In each driver folder there are x64 and x86 folders for 64bit and 32bit system respectively.
Plug in the USB cable to the camera and the host PC USB port, there is notification from the lower right of the task bar. The auto installation of the driver will fail, so we have to install the USB camera driver manually.
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Go to Start->Settings->Control-Panel->Device Manager, right click the unknown device and select "Update Driver Software".
Select the "Browse my compute for driver software"
Select "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer".
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Select "Show All Devices".
Press the "Have Disk" button.
Enter the path to the ArduCAM USB driver, where you save the downloaded file from github.
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Confirm the installation of the driver by pressing "Yes".
Confirm the installation again by pressing "Install".
You will successfully install the driver like this.
4 Demo Code
The demo code is provided in source code form to help user to understand the operation the ArduCAM USB camera and SDK library. It is created with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and
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based on MFC frame wrok .
The Windows demo code is located at ../Winodws/USB_Demo folder and the release executable software is located at ../ Winodws/USB_Demo/USB_Demo.exe.
4.1 Camera Settings
This USB demo software can work with different cameras provided by ArduCAM. Basically the different camera settings is predefined by the Sensor Type selected by the user. User also can override these settings after select a certain Sensor Type. All the following parameters are in decimal.
The Width and Height is to define the image size to be captured and displayed, they should exactly match the resolution output by the image sensor.
The Bits is the sensor output data bits , now ArduCAM shield only supports 8bits mode.
The I2C Mode select different sensor register read/write mode according to different sensor type. 8,8 means one byte address phase and one byte data phase; 8,16 means one byte address phase and two bytes data phase; and so on.
The I2CAddr is the image sensor I2C 8bit slave address, it is in decimal. For example MT9V034 sensor I2C slave address is 0x90, so we have to use 144 for it in decimal.
4.2 Open the Camera
Auto-open is useful when there is only one ArduCAM USB camera connected.
Scan then open is used when more than one ArduCAM USB camera connected. You have to scan how many cameras are on the USB bus, and select the correct one to open.
4.3 Play the Video
Click the Play to capture and display the video in realtime.
4.4 Stop the Video
Click the Stop button to stop the video capture and display.
4.5 Take a Snapshot
Click the Snapshot to take both BMP and RAW image to files.
4.6 Sensor Register Read/Write
This is very useful to access the sensor register in order to adjust the sensor settings on the fly. For example you want to manually change the exposure settings you can input the exposure register address and value then click write, you can video how the brightness changes from the video.
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4.7 RAW Mode Selection
There are four combination of the RAW format R-G, G-R, B-G, G-B. It is predefined for our tested sensor, you can also changes the mode match your target sensor RAW output order.
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