Matrix Vision mvBlueFOX3 Technical Manual

mvBlueFOX3

Technical Manual

English - Version 1.41

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Contents

1 About this manual 2

1.1 Goal of the manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

1.2 Contents of the manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2 Imprint 4

2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.2 wxWidgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.3 Sarissa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.4 GenICam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.5 libusb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.6 libusbK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2.6.1 libusbK license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.7 Doxygen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.7.1 Doxygen license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.8 SHA1 algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.9 Expat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.9.1 Expat Copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.10 OpenSSL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.10.1 OpenSSL License Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2.10.2 OpenSSL License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.11 CppUnit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.12 NUnit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

2.12.1 NUnit License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

3 Legal notice 10

3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

3.2 cJSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

3.2.1 cJSON license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

3.3 Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

3.3.1 Unity license . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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4 Revisions 12

5 Graphic Symbols 19

5.1 Notes, Warnings, Attentions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

5.2 Webcasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

6 Important information 20

6.1 Important safety instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

6.2 Operating considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

6.2.1 Important safety notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

6.2.2 Handling and cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

6.2.3 Installing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

6.2.4 Optimizing performance and life time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

6.2.5 Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

6.2.6 Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

6.2.7 Adjusting the C-mount (mvBlueFOX3-2xxx-1xxx) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

6.2.8 Adjusting the C-mount (mvBlueFOX3-2xxx-2xxx) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

6.3 European Union Declaration of Conformity statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

6.4 Legal notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

6.4.1 For customers in the U.S.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

6.4.2 For customers in Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

6.4.3 Pour utilisateurs au Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

7 Introduction 30

7.1 Software concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

7.2 Order code nomenclatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

7.2.1 mvBlueFOX3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

7.2.2 mvBlueFOX3-M1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

7.2.3 mvBlueFOX3-M2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

7.2.4 Ordering code samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

7.3 What's inside and accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

7.3.1 Accessories for the mvBlueFOX3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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8 Quickstart 35

8.1 Driver concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

8.1.1 NeuroCheck support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

8.1.2 VisionPro support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

8.1.3 HALCON support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

8.1.4 LabVIEW support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

8.1.5 DirectShow support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

8.1.6 Micro-Manager support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

8.2 Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

8.2.1 System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

8.2.2 Installing the mvGenTL-Acquire driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

8.2.3 Connecting the camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

8.3 Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

8.3.1 System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

8.3.2 Installing the mvGenTL-Acquire driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

8.3.3 Connecting the camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

8.3.4 Defining udev rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

8.3.5 Optimizing USB performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

8.4 Relationship between driver, firmware, FPGA file and user settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

8.5 Settings behaviour during startup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

9 Technical data 53

9.1 Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

9.1.1 Standard model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

9.1.2 Standard model -2xxx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

9.1.3 Model without housing (-M1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

9.1.4 Model without housing (-M2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

9.2 Camera interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

9.2.1 Circular connector male (Power / Digital I/O) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

9.2.2 Characteristics of the digital inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

9.2.3 Characteristics of the digital outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

9.3 Status / Power LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

9.3.1 Standard model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

9.3.2 Standard model -2xxx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

9.4 Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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10 Sensor overview 64

10.1 Image data flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

10.2 Output sequence of color sensors (RGB Bayer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

10.3 CMOS sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

10.3.1 Details of operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

10.3.2 Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

10.4 Supported image formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

11 Filters and Lenses 72

11.1 Hot mirror filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

11.2 Cold mirror filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

11.3 Glass filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

11.4 Lenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

12 Application Usage 74

12.1 wxPropView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

12.1.1 How to work with wxPropView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

12.1.2 How to configure a device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

12.1.3 Command-line options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

12.2 mvDeviceConfigure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

12.2.1 How to update the firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

12.2.2 Preserving UserSet settings when updating the Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

12.2.3 How to disable CPU sleep states a.k.a. C states (< Windows 8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

12.2.4 Command-line options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

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13 GenICam and Advanced Features 107

13.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

13.2 Device Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

13.3 Image Format Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

13.4 Acquisition Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

13.5 Counter And Timer Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

13.6 Analog Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

13.7 mv Logic Gate Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

13.8 Color Transformation Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

13.9 mv Flat Field Correction Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

13.10Event Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

13.11Chunk Data Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

13.12File Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

13.13Digital I/O Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

13.14LUT Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

13.14.1 mvLUTType . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

13.14.2 mvLUTInputData . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

13.14.3 mvLUTMapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

13.14.4 LUT support in MATRIX VISION cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

13.15Sequencer Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

13.15.1 Sequencer overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

13.15.2 Configuration of a sequencer set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

13.16Transport Layer Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

13.17User Set Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

13.18mv Frame Average Control (only with specific models) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

13.19mv High Dynanmic Range Control (only with specific sensor models) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

14 C developers 130

15 C++ developers 131

16 .NET developers 132

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17 DirectShow Interface 133

17.1 Supported Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

17.1.1 IAMCameraControl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

17.1.2 IAMDroppedFrames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

17.1.3 IAMStreamConfig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

17.1.4 IAMVideoProcAmp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

17.1.5 IKsPropertySet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

17.1.6 ISpecifyPropertyPages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

17.2 Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

17.3 Registering and renaming devices for DirectShow usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

17.3.1 Registering devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

17.3.2 Renaming devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

17.3.3 Make silent registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

18 Troubleshooting 138

18.1 There are Image Error Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

18.2 I cannot see the mvBlueFOX3 or I can see it but I cannot use it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

18.3 I get an oscillating frame rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

18.4 Accessing log files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

18.4.1 Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

18.4.2 Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

18.5 Error code list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

19 Glossary 155

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20 Use cases 162

20.1 GenICam to mvIMPACT Acquire code generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

20.1.1 Using the code generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

20.1.2 Using the result of the code generator in an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

20.2 Introducing acquisition / recording possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

20.2.1 Acquiring a number of images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

20.2.2 Recording sequences in the camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

20.2.3 Recording sequences with pre-trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

20.2.4 Creating acquisition sequences (Sequencer Control) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

20.2.5 Working with multiple AOIs (mv Multi Area Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

20.2.6 Working with burst mode buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

20.2.7 Using VLC Media Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

20.2.8 Using the linescan mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

20.2.9 Working with Event Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

20.3 Improving the acquisition / image quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

20.3.1 Correcting image errors of a sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

20.3.2 Optimizing the color fidelity of the camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

20.3.3 Reducing noise by frame averaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

20.3.4 Setting a flicker-free auto expose and auto gain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

20.3.5 Working with binning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

20.3.6 Minimizing sensor pattern of mvBlueFOX3-1100G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

20.4 Working with triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

20.4.1 Getting a trigger with an incremental encoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

20.4.2 Generating a pulse width modulation (PWM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

20.4.3 Outputting a pulse at every other external trigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

20.4.4 Creating different exposure times for consecutive images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

20.4.5 Detecting overtriggering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

20.4.6 Triggering of an indefinite sequence with precise starting time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

20.5 Working with I/Os . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

20.5.1 Controlling strobe or flash at the outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

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20.5.2 Compensating delay of strobe or flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

20.5.3 Creating a debouncing filter at the inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

20.6 Working with HDR (High Dynamic Range Control) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

20.6.1 Adjusting sensor -x02d (-1012d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

20.6.2 Adjusting sensor -x02e (-1013) / -x04e (-1020) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

20.6.3 Adjusting sensor -1031C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

20.7 Working with LUTs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

20.7.1 Introducing LUTs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

20.7.2 Working with LUTValueAll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

20.7.3 Implementing a hardware-based binarization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

20.8 Saving data on the device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

20.8.1 Creating user data entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

20.8.2 Creating user set entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

20.8.3 Working with the UserFile section (Flash memory) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268

20.9 Working with device features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

20.9.1 Reset timestamp by hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

20.9.2 Synchronizing camera timestamps without IEEE 1588 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

20.9.3 Using the standby mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

20.10Working with several camera simultaneously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

20.10.1 Creating synchronized acquisitions using timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

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21.1 mvBlueFOX3-2004 (0.4 Mpix [1456 x 1088]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

21.1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

21.1.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

21.1.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

21.1.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

21.2 mvBlueFOX3-2016 (1.6 Mpix [1456 x 1088]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

21.2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

21.2.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

21.2.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

21.2.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

21.3 mvBlueFOX3-2024 (2.4 Mpix [1936 x 1216]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

21.3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

21.3.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

21.3.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

21.3.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

21.4 mvBlueFOX3-2024a (2.4 Mpix [1936 x 1216]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

21.4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

21.4.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

21.4.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

21.4.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

21.5 mvBlueFOX3-2032 (3.2 Mpix [2064 x 1544]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

21.5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

21.5.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

21.5.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

21.5.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

21.6 mvBlueFOX3-2032a (3.2 Mpix [2064 x 1544]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

21.6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

21.6.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

21.6.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

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21.6.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

21.7 mvBlueFOX3-2051 (5.1 Mpix [2464 x 2056]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

21.7.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

21.7.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

21.7.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

21.7.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

21.8 mvBlueFOX3-2051a (5.1 Mpix [2464 x 2056]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

21.8.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

21.8.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

21.8.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

21.8.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

21.9 mvBlueFOX3-2064 (6.4 Mpix [1456 x 1088]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

21.9.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

21.9.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

21.9.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

21.9.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

21.10mvBlueFOX3-2089 (8.9 Mpix [4112 x 2176]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

21.10.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

21.10.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

21.10.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

21.10.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

21.11mvBlueFOX3-2089a (8.9 Mpix [4112 x 2176]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

21.11.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

21.11.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

21.11.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

21.11.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

21.12mvBlueFOX3-2124 (12.4 Mpix [4112 x 3008]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

21.12.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

21.12.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

21.12.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

21.12.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

21.13mvBlueFOX3-2124a (12.4 Mpix [4112 x 3008]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

21.13.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

21.13.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

21.13.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

21.13.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

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22.1 mvBlueFOX3-1012b (1.2 Mpix [1280 x 960]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

22.1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

22.1.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

22.1.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

22.1.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

22.2 mvBlueFOX3-1012d (1.2 Mpix [1280 x 960]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

22.2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

22.2.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

22.2.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

22.2.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

22.3 mvBlueFOX3-1013 (1.3 Mpix [1280 x 1024]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

22.3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

22.3.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

22.3.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

22.3.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

22.4 mvBlueFOX3-1020 (1.9 Mpix [1600 x 1200]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

22.4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

22.4.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

22.4.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

22.4.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

22.5 mvBlueFOX3-1020a (1.9 Mpix [1600 x 1200]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

22.5.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342

22.5.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

22.5.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

22.5.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

22.6 mvBlueFOX3-1031 (3.2 Mpix [2048 x 1536]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

22.6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

22.6.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

22.6.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

22.6.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

22.7 mvBlueFOX3-1100 (11 Mpix [3856 x 2764]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

22.7.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

22.7.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

22.7.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

22.7.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

22.8 mvBlueFOX3-1140 (14 Mpix [4384 x 3288]) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

22.8.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

22.8.2 Spectral Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

22.8.3 Timings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

22.8.4 Device Feature And Property List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

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1 About this manual

1.1 Goal of the manual

This manual gives you an overview of the mvBlueFOX3, MATRIX VISION's compact USB 3.0 industrial camera
family compliant to USB3 Vision, its technical data and basic operation of the mvBlueFOX3. Programming the
device is detailed in a separate documentation, which will be available in an online format.

The mvBlueFOX3 manual is based on a modular concept and contains several individual books. That means like in
many object-oriented programming languages you have for each functionality your own "class". Instead of classes,
you have books. For example, if you want to know anything about the GUI based applications, then you have to go
to the Application Usage (p. 74) book. If you want to know how images are acquired with the mvBlueFOX3, have
a look in the respective programming language chapter.

1.2 Contents of the manual

At the beginning of the manual, you will get an introduction (p. 30) to the possible usages of the camera. The
further chapters contain general information about the mvBlueFOX3 including:

• how to install the mvBlueFOX3 for the first time (p. 35) followed by

• Technical data (p. 53)

• Sensor overview (p.64)

• Filters and Lenses (p.72)

The general information is followed by the description of the

• software tools for mvBlueFOX3 (p.74) including the tools

– wxPropView (p.74)

– mvDeviceConfigure (p.100)

• GenICam and Advanced Features (p. 107) introduces the GenICam and the Advanced features of the mv←-
BlueFOX3 (The mvBlueFOX3 is a GenICam / USB3 Vision compliant camera).

• DirectShow developers (p. 133) documents MATRIX VISION's DirectShow_acquire interface.

• Use cases (p. 162) describes solutions for general tasks and

• Troubleshooting (p. 138) shows how to detect damages and other inconveniences.

• A Glossary (p. 155) explains abbreviations and technical terms.

• Appendix A.1 Pregius CMOS specific camera / sensor data (p. 282) contains all data of the Pregius CMOS
sensors like timings, details of operation, etc.

• Appendix A.2 CMOS specific camera / sensor data (p. 331) contains all data of the other CMOS sensors
like timings, details of operation, etc.

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1.2 Contents of the manual 3

Note

For C, C++, .NET developers, there are separate mvIMPACT Acquire manuals

• "mvIMPACT_Acquire_API_CPP_manual.chm",

• "mvIMPACT_Acquire_API_C_manual.chm", and

• "mvIMPACT_Acquire_API_NET_manual.chm"

available as downloads from our website https://www.matrix-vision.com. The manuals contain
chapter about

• how to link and build applications using mvIMPACT Acquire,

• how the log output for "mvIMPACT Acquire" devices is configured and how it works in general,

• how to create your own installer packages for Windows and Linux, and

• the general mvIMPACT Acquire API documentation.

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Author

U. Lansche
H. Mattfeldt
S. Battmer
U. Hagmaier
D. Neuholz

Date

2016

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MATRIX VISION reserves the right to change technical data and design and specifications of the described products
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2.1 Introduction

The mvIMPACT Acuire SDK and its underlying libraries and drivers as well as some of the applications shipped with
the mvIMPACT Acquire packages make use of a couple of third party software packages that come with various
licenses. This section is meant to list all these packages and to give credit to those whose code helped in the
creation of the mvIMPACT Acquire SDK.

2.2 wxWidgets

Most of the applications offering a graphical user interface have been written using wxWidgets (http://www.←-

wxwidgets.org/).

wxWidgets is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, OS X, Linux and Unix on 32-bit
and 64-bit architectures as well as several mobile platforms including Windows Mobile, iPhone SDK and embedded
GTK+. Please refer to the wxWidgets website for detailed license information.

The source code of the applications provided by MATRIX VISION GmbH (http://www.matrix-vision.←-

com) using wxWidgets is either part of the packet this document was taken from or can be obtained by contacting

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2.3 Sarissa

Parts of the log file creation and the log file display make use of Sarissa (Website: http://dev.abiss.←-

gr/sarissa) which is distributed under the GNU GPL version 2 or higher, GNU LGPL version 2.1 or higher and

Apache Software License 2.0 or higher. The Apache Software License 2.0 is part of this driver package.

2.4 GenICam

At least one driver package shipped under the product family name mvIMPACT Acquire makes use of the GenI←-
Cam (p. 155) reference implementation, which is hosted by the EVMA and can be downloaded from their website:

http://www.emva.org. All license files belonging to the GenICam (p. 155) reference implementation are

shipped with the libraries belonging to the GenICam (p. 155) runtime.

2.5 libusb

The Linux version of the mvBlueFOX driver package makes use of a modified version of libusb (http://www.←-

libusb.org/), which comes under LGPL 2.1. The full license text is included in the Linux distribution of the

mvBlueFOX driver package. The source code for the modified version of libusb can be obtained by contacting
MATRIX VISION GmbH or it can be downloaded from here: http://gpl.matrix-vision.com (navigate to
others/libusb).

2.6 libusbK

The USB3 Vision implementation currently makes use of libusbK (http://libusbk.sourceforge.net)
written by Travis Lee Robinson who owns all rights for the source code of all modules belonging to the libusbK
framework.

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2.6.1 libusbK license

APPLICABLE FOR ALL LIBUSBK BINARIES AND SOURCE CODE UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED. PLEASE SEE INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS LICENSING TERMS FOR DETAILS.

Note

Portions of dpscat use source code from libwdi which is licensed for LGPL use only. (See dpscat.c)

libusbK-inf-wizard.exe is linked to libwdi which is licensed for LGPL use only.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the
following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
disclaimer.

• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the fol­lowing disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

• Neither the name of Travis Lee Robinson nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND
CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
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ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF
USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE
OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

2.7 Doxygen

All the documentation belonging to the mvIMPACT Acquire framework has been generated using Doxygen (http←-

://www.doxygen.org/) written by Dimitri van Heesch.

2.7.1 Doxygen license

Copyright © 1997-2013 by Dimitri van Heesch.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation under the terms of the GNU
General Public License is hereby granted. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any
purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. See the GNU General Public License for more
details.

Documents produced by Doxygen are derivative works derived from the input used in their production; they are not
affected by this license.

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2.8 SHA1 algorithm

Parts of this framework make use of an open source implementation of the SHA1 algorithm written by Dominik
Reichl (http://www.dominik-reichl.de).

2.9 Expat

Expat is used to parse XML strings within the SDK.

2.9.1 Expat Copyright

Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2000 Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated
documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons
to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

2.10 OpenSSL

OpenSSL is used to perform license authentification.

2.10.1 OpenSSL License Issues

The OpenSSL toolkit stays under a dual license, i.e. both the conditions of the OpenSSL License and the
original SSLeay license apply to the toolkit. See below for the actual license texts. Actually both licenses
are BSD-style Open Source licenses. In case of any license issues related to OpenSSL please contact

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2.10.2 OpenSSL License

Copyright (c) 1998-2000 The OpenSSL Project. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the
following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the fol­lowing disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following
acknowledgment: "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the Open←-
SSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)"

4. The names "OpenSSL Toolkit" and "OpenSSL Project" must not be used to endorse or promote prod­ucts derived from this software without prior written permission. For written permission, please contact

[e-mail].

5. Products derived from this software may not be called "OpenSSL" nor may "OpenSSL" appear in their names
without prior written permission of the OpenSSL Project.

6. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following acknowledgment: "This product includes
software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)"

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE OpenSSL PROJECT ‘‘AS IS’’ AND ANY
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OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young ([e-mail]). This product in­cludes software written by Tim Hudson ([e-mail]).

2.11 CppUnit

The C and C++ code is tested using the CppUnit (http://cppunit.sourceforge.net) framework, which
come under GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2.1, February 1999.

2.12 NUnit

The .NET code is tested using the NUnit (http://www.nunit.org/) framework.

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2.12.1 NUnit License

Copyright © 2002-2008 Charlie Poole Copyright © 2002-2004 James W. Newkirk, Michael C. Two, Alexei A.
Vorontsov Copyright © 2000-2002 Philip A. Craig

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable
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Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to
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2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original
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3 Legal notice

3.1 Introduction

The firmware running on mvBlueCOUGAR-X, mvBlueCOUGAR-XD and mvBlueFOX3 devices make use of a
couple of third party software packages that come with various licenses. This section is meant to list all these
packages and to give credit to those whose code helped in the creation of this software.

3.2 cJSON

A slightly modified version of cJSON (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cjson/) is used inside
some of the modules that eventually build up the firmware.

3.2.1 cJSON license

Copyright (c) 2009 Dave Gamble

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.

3.3 Unity

A slightly modified version of Unity (https://github.com/ThrowTheSwitch/Unity) is used for unit test­ing various modules that eventually build up the firmware.

3.3.1 Unity license

Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Mike Karlesky, Mark VanderVoord, Greg Williams

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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The end-user documentation included with the redistribution, if
any, must include the following acknowledgment: "This product
includes software developed for the Unity Project, by Mike Karlesky,
Mark VanderVoord, and Greg Williams and other contributors", in
the same place and form as other third-party acknowledgments.
Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software
itself, in the same form and location as other such third-party
acknowledgments.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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4 Revisions

Date Rev. Author Description Driver / Firmware version

04. July 2017 V1.41 LAN Added mvBC_subsection_←-
standard_tech_dimensions_←-
wo2_s .

13. June 2017 V1.40 LAN Updated Order code nomen-
clatures (p. 31) of mvBlueFO←-
X3-M2.

29. May 2017 V1.39 LAN Added sensors mvBlueFOX3-

2004 (0.4 Mpix [1456 x 1088])

(p. 282)

mvBlueFOX3-2016 (1.6 Mpix
[1456 x 1088]) (p. 285)
mvBlueFOX3-2064 (6.4 Mpix
[1456 x 1088]) (p. 311) .

15. May 2017 V1.38 LAN Updated use case Work­ing with burst mode buffer

(p. 181).

03. May 2017 V1.37 LAN Added use case Working with
binning (p. 223).

20. March 2017 V1.36 LAN Updated frame rates of E2V
sensors.
Added description of the wizard
in Working with multiple AOIs
(mv Multi Area Mode) (p. 177).

14. February 2017 V1.35 LAN Added Working with multiple

AOIs (mv Multi Area Mode)

(p. 177) .

Firmware: 2.18.651.0

13. February 2017 V1.34 LAN Added Implementing a

hardware-based binariza­tion (p. 262) .

24. January 2017 V1.33 LAN Added Error code list (p.143).

21. December 2016 V1.32 LAN Updated Setting up multiple

display support and/or work
with several capture settings
in parallel (p. 89).

Firmware: 2.16.587.0

15. December 2016 V1.31 LAN Added Micro-Manger in Driver
concept (p. 35).

Firmware: 2.15.578.0

17. November 2016 V1.29 LAN Added information about the
cooling area of mvBlueFOX3-←-
M2xxx-1111.

26. October 2016 V1.28 LAN Updated sensor characteristics.

23. August 2016 V1.27 LAN Extended use case Using the
standby mode (p.275) .
Added Adjusting sensor

-1031C (p. 252).

Firmware: 2.12.406.0

04. August 2016 V1.26 LAN Added sensor IMX267: mv←-

BlueFOX3-2124a (12.4 Mpix
[4112 x 3008]) (p. 326) .
Added sensor IMX304: mv←-
BlueFOX3-2089a (8.9 Mpix
[4112 x 2176]) (p. 318).

Firmware:

01. August 2016 V1.25 LAN Added Triggered frame burst

mode (p. 183).

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24. June 2016 V1.24 LAN Updated use case Creating
acquisition sequences (Se­quencer Control) (p.169).

Firmware:

21. June 2016 V1.23 LAN Added use case Triggering of

an indefinite sequence with
precise starting time (p. 241).

Firmware:

17. June 2016 V1.22 LAN Added sensor IMX264: mv←-

BlueFOX3-2051a (5.1 Mpix
[2464 x 2056]) (p. 307) .
Added use case Synchronizing
camera timestamps without
IEEE 1588 (p. 273).

Firmware:

12. May 2016 V1.21 LAN Added sensor IMX255: mv←-

BlueFOX3-2089 (8.9 Mpix
[4112 x 2176]) (p. 315) .
Added warning in Adjusting
the C-mount (mvBlueFOX3­2xxx-1xxx) (p. 22).

Firmware:

21. April 2016 V1.20 LAN Added sensor IMX253: mv←-

BlueFOX3-2124 (12.4 Mpix
[4112 x 3008]) (p. 322).

Firmware: 2.8.241.0

21. January 2016 V1.19 LAN Added sensor IMX265: mv←-

BlueFOX3-2032a (3.2 Mpix
[2064 x 1544]) (p. 299).

Firmware: 2.6.180.0

02. December 2015 V1.18 LAN Updated CE declarations
(p. 23).

30. November 2015 V1.17 LAN Added Minimizing sensor pat-

tern of mvBlueFOX3-1100G

(p. 225).

Firmware: 2.3.70.0

12. November 2015 V1.16 LAN Added mvBlueFOX3-M2 infor-
mation (p. 58).

09. November 2015 V1.15 LAN Added sensor IMX252: mv←-

BlueFOX3-2032 (3.2 Mpix
[2064 x 1544]) (p. 296).

27. October 2015 V1.14 LAN Added Command-line options
(p. 99).

22. October 2015 V1.13 LAN Added sensor IMX250: mv←-

BlueFOX3-2051 (5.1 Mpix
[2464 x 2056]) (p. 303).

21. September 2015 V1.12 LAN Added power led states of Stan­dard model -2xxx (p.63).

07. September 2015 V1.11 LAN Changed sensor size of 10
Mpixels resolution CMOS sen­sor (-x100) (p. 67) from 1/2.35"

to 1/2.3".

11. August 2015 V1.10 LAN Added image "Input switching
times" in Electrical character-
istics (p. 60).

04. August 2015 V1.09 LAN Added Windows 10 support.

31. July 2015 V1.08 LAN Added dimensional drawing of
mvBlueFOX3-IO NC (p. 56).
Added USB performance im­provements For Odroid-U2 / -←-

U3 Users (p.47) and For Rasp­berry Pi Users (p. 47).

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28. July 2015 V1.07 LAN Added Adjusting the C-mount
(mvBlueFOX3-2xxx-1xxx)

(p. 22).

24. July 2015 V1.06 LAN Removed resistor in Connect-
ing the hardware (p. 277) in
Figure 1.
Updated chapter Hardware
(p. 38) concerning extension
cards and adapters.

21. July 2015 V1.05 LAN Corrected image in Mounting
holes (p. 53).

09. July 2015 V1.04 LAN Added Adjusting the C-mount

(mvBlueFOX3-2xxx-2xxx)

(p. 23).

07. July 2015 V1.03 LAN Added dimensional drawings of
lensholder options in Standard
model -2xxx (p. 54).

23. June 2015 V1.02 LAN Added bottom view of -2xxx
model: Option -2xxx (lensh-

older with back focus adjust­ment) (p. 55).
Added NVIDIA Tegra TK1 in­stallation notes (p. 48).

23. June 2015 V1.01 LAN Added use case Working with
Event Control (p.192).

Driver: 2.13.1; Firmware: 1.6.←-

414.0

19. June 2015 V1.00 LAN Restructured chapter Use
cases (p. 162).
Added use case Detecting
overtriggering (p. 236).

17. June 2015 V0.60b LAN Updated Circular connector

male (Power / Digital I/O)

(p. 59).

15. June 2015 V0.59b LAN Added Creating acquisition

sequences (Sequencer Con­trol) (p.169).

Driver: 2.12.5; Firmware: 1.6.←-

403.0

11. June 2015 V0.58b LAN Added sensor mvBlueFOX3-

2024a (2.4 Mpix [1936 x 1216])

(p. 292).

Firmware: 1.6.393.0

21. May 2015 V0.57b LAN Updated pixel clock of mv←-

BlueFOX3-2024 (2.4 Mpix
[1936 x 1216]) (p. 289).

12. May 2015 V0.56b LAN Updated Order code nomen­clatures (p.31).

17. April 2015 V0.55b LAN Adapted the sensor resolution of

mvBlueFOX3-2024 (2.4 Mpix
[1936 x 1216]) (p. 289).

Firmware: 1.6.366.0

16. April 2015 V0.54b LAN Updated supported Windows
versions.

31. March 2015 V0.53b LAN Added line scan frame rate
calculator for the sensors mv←-

BlueFOX3-1020 (1.9 Mpix
[1600 x 1200]) (p. 339) and
mvBlueFOX3-1020a (1.9 Mpix
[1600 x 1200]) (p. 342).

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25. March 2015 V0.52b LAN Upgraded frame rate calcula­tor of mvBlueFOX3-2024 (2.←-
4 Mpix [1936 x 1216]) (p. 289).

11. March 2015 V0.51b LAN Added chapter Accessing log
files (p. 92).

05. March 2015 V0.50b LAN Added -2xx Standard model -
2xxx (p. 54).

03. March 2015 V0.49b LAN Added sensor mvBlueFOX3-

1020a (1.9 Mpix [1600 x 1200])

(p. 342) .
Corrected max. frame rate of

mvBlueFOX3-1020 (1.9 Mpix
[1600 x 1200]) (p. 339).

25. February 2015 V0.48b LAN Added chapter For Odroid-X←-
U3 Users (p. 46) in "Optimizing

USB performance".

09. February 2015 V0.47b LAN Updated pixel clock of mv←-

BlueFOX3-2024 (2.4 Mpix
[1936 x 1216]) (p. 289) .

02. February 2015 V0.46b LAN Added Pinning of KS-BCX-H←-
R12 (p. 59).

Driver: 2.11.9; Firmware: 1.6.←-

295.0

27. January 2015 V0.46b LAN Updated exposure times in
Models (p. 67) and added
sensor mvBlueFOX3-2024

(2.4 Mpix [1936 x 1216])
(p. 289) . Renewed Order code
nomenclatures (p.31).

14. January 2015 V0.45b LAN Updated Order code nomen­clatures (p.31).

13. January 2015 V0.44b LAN Corrected use case Creating
synchronized acquisitions
using timers (p.277)

Added additional I/O board
for mvBlueFOX3-M to Acces-

sories for the mvBlueFOX3

(p. 34).

11. December 2014 V0.43b LAN Corrected pixel clock value of
sensor mvBlueFOX3-1012b
(1.2 Mpix [1280 x 960]) (p. 331)
(66 MHz).

07. December 2014 V0.42b LAN Added use case Adjusting sen-

sor -x02e (-1013) / -x04e (-

1020) (p. 250).

02. December 2014 V0.40b LAN Added Quick Setup Wizard
(p. 74).

Driver: 2.11.3; Firmware: 1.6.←-

230.0.

21. October 2014 V0.39b LAN Added figure about how the ad-

ditional I/O board for mv←-
BlueFOX3-M (p. 56) is con-

nected correctly.
Added description about the
record mode in How to see the
first image (p.79).

16. October 2014 V0.38b LAN Added dimensional drawing of

additional I/O board for mv←-
BlueFOX3-M (p. 56).

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26. September 2014 V0.37b LAN Restructured sensor informa­tion.

23. August 2014 V0.36b LAN Removed ext. power supply in
Components (p. 63).

21. August 2014 V0.35b LAN Added use case Using the
standby mode (p.275).

18. August 2014 V0.34b LAN Updated Sensor overview
(p. 64).

17. July 2014 V0.33b LAN Added use case Introducing
LUTs (p. 255).

09. July 2014 V0.32b LAN Added cable color scheme
in Circular connector male
(Power / Digital I/O) (p. 59).

04. July 2014 V0.31b LAN Board-level model is called
mvBlueFOX3-M now.

11. June 2014 V0.30b LAN Added daylight cut filter
(p. 72).

05. June 2014 V0.29b LAN Update chapter Using the
linescan mode (p. 187).

02. June 2014 V0.28b LAN Removed global reset release
mode from mvBlueFOX3-1031

(3.2 Mpix [2048 x 1536])

(p. 345).

27. May 2014 V0.27b LAN Added use case Reducing

noise by frame averaging

(p. 216).

13. May 2014 V0.26b LAN Corrected images in Charac-

teristics of the digital inputs
(p. 60) and Characteristics of
the digital outputs (p. 61).

09. May 2014 V0.25b LAN Added Model without housing
(-M1) (p. 56).

21. Mar. 2014 V0.24b LAN Changed sensor MT9M021
to MT9M031: mvBlueFOX3-

1012b (1.2 Mpix [1280 x 960])

(p. 331).

14. Mar. 2014 V0.23b LAN Added Windows 8 and 8.1 as
supported operating systems in
Quickstart (p. 35).

10. Mar. 2014 V0.22b LAN mvDeviceConfigure (p.100)
extended.

25 Feb. 2014 V0.21b LAN Corrected Ordering code sam-

ples (p. 33).

12 Feb. 2014 V0.20b LAN Updated trigger modes of the

sensors.

07 Feb. 2014 V0.19b LAN Added description of sensor

mvBlueFOX3-1031 (3.2 Mpix
[2048 x 1536]) (p. 345).

31 Jan. 2014 V0.18b LAN Changed position of chapter "←-

First Start" and renamed it to
Quickstart (p. 35).

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17 Jan. 2014 V0.17b LAN Added note about max. ex-

posure time (global reset re­lease mode) in mvBlueFO←-

X3-1100 (11 Mpix [3856 x
2764]) (p. 347) and mvBlue←-
FOX3-1140 (14 Mpix [4384 x
3288]) (p. 351).

20 Dec. 2013 V0.16b LAN Added Sample 1: Triggered

linescan acquisition with ex­posure time of 250 us (p. 189).

9 Dec. 2013 V0.15b LAN Update description of firmware

update (p. 100).

6 Dec. 2013 V0.14b LAN Added information about sup-

ported USB 3.0 adpaters

(p. 38).
Added information about

Changing the view of the
property grid to assist writing
code that shall locate driver
features (p. 91).

2 Dec. 2013 V0.13b LAN Manual is now HTML based.

Added sensor mvBlueFOX3-

1020 (1.9 Mpix [1600 x 1200])

(p. 339).

15 Oct. 2013 V0.12b LAN Added Webcasts (p.19) links.

Added chapter Bit-shifting an
image (p. 90).

14 Oct. 2013 V0.11b LAN User Set Default Selector

(p. 98) is deprecated and will be
replaced by "User Set Default".

07 Oct. 2013 V0.10b LAN Removed links to mvBlueLYNX-

X in chapter Use cases (p. 162).

02 Oct. 2013 V0.9b LAN Added max current consumption

of the Characteristics of the
digital inputs (p. 60).

19 Sep. 2013 V0.8b LAN Added Image data flow (p.64).

06 Aug. 2013 V0.7b LAN Added troubleshooting

chapter: I cannot see the

mvBlueFOX3 or I can see it
but I cannot use it (p.138).
Added information about Status
/ Power LED (p. 62).

27 May 2013 V0.6b LAN Updated mvBlueFOX3-1100

(11 Mpix [3856 x 2764]) (p.347)
and mvBlueFOX3-1140 (14
Mpix [4384 x 3288]) (p. 351).

15 May 2013 V0.5b LAN Added mvBlueFOX3-1140 (14

Mpix [4384 x 3288]) (p. 351).

13 May 2013 V0.4b LAN Added tripod adapter drawing in

Dimensions (p. 53).

18. Apr. 2013 V0.3b LAN Added chapter Supported im-

age formats (p.71).

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28 Mar. 2013 V0.2b LAN Updated chapters Quickstart

(p. 35), Application Usage
(p. 74), GenICam and Ad-

vanced Features (p.107), and
Use cases (p. 162).

March 2013 V0.1b LAN Initial version

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5.2 Webcasts 19

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5.1 Notes, Warnings, Attentions

Note

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Warning

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Attention

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All due care and attention has been taken in preparing this manual. In view of our policy of continuous product
improvement, however, we can accept no liability for completeness and correctness of the information contained in
this manual. We make every effort to provide you with a flawless product.

In the context of the applicable statutory regulations, we shall accept no liability for direct damage, indirect damage
or third-party damage resulting from the acquisition or operation of a MATRIX VISION product. Our liability for intent
and gross negligence is unaffected. In any case, the extend of our liability shall be limited to the purchase price.

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